A bunch of questions before I start my journey

Hi! I’m a 19M who is really obese (270, 5’9”) and I have to start losing weight before it’s too late. I don’t want to spend the “prime years” of my life overweight and miss out on social opportunities and adventures due to my size. The only problem is, I’m not exactly sure where to start.

My goal is to lose 100 lbs by next Christmas. It’s a steep but possible goal and I would love some advice from you wonderful folks here.

1) What should I do? Of course I am going to use mfp and keep a caloric deficit, 1500 a day or so. Is pure CICO enough? How much exercise should I throw in? Should I cut carbs too? Also, does intermittent fasting speed up the weight loss process if I’m already doing CICO?

2) Staying disciplined How do you guys stay disciplined after the motivation has run out? I’ve been on keto before (2 years ago) but I couldn’t stay strong and ended up eating no-no foods after a couple months or so. I lost 30 lbs but saw absolutely no physical changes and I didn’t feel healthier either. Starting the diet is easy, staying on it sucks for me, especially if I can’t see or feel progress.

3) Working out/muscle mass If I do CICO to burn fat, won’t that make my muscles shrink also? What workouts/dieting should I do to lose fat and keep/build muscle mass?

4 MFP accuracy When I use MyFitnessPal, I feel like I’m always miscounting calories. Even with an accurate food scale, I feel like I might now be entering the right amount of calories because I don’t know if the food I selected in the app has the same amount of calories as the one I’m eating, especially if it’s homemade. For example “1 cup stir fry” in the app is 420 calories, but the 1 cup of stir fry I’m eating could have much more or much less. How do you keep an accurate count?

Please help me answer these questions! Thank you all so much. I hope I can stick through this journey and have an amazing weight loss progress pics like all of you here who have inspired me to r/loseit!

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