I am a newly diagnosed diabetic, however I have recently put on over two stone (little to do with over eating and little to do with a diagnosis of Hypothyroidism).
I need to loose weight, yes if know eat less move more, but...
If you would like general advice on diets etc I would always favour eating for health ie slowly cutting down all processed foods in your diet and replacing with real food. I find I can eat any amount of fruit, veg, lean meats with sparing use of dairy, oils, sauces etc for taste and still lose weight. I have a salad every day the size of my head and it still only comes to 200kcal with dressing /olives etc. I guess it may be called the Mediterranean diet? Then a salad/meat sandwich with 60kcal slices of bread comes to around 300 so that's 2 meals of 3 and only 500kcal gone. You can really eat what you want for a final meal and snack as I would have around 2000kcal or so to play with; if you don't eat them all (kcals) you can store them for a treat every few days? I suppose the trick is when you eat like this for a while you actually lose the taste for things that are classed as unhealthy as they taste like a combination of salty/sweet cardboard whereas before I used to crave such things. Then you just lose weight by default as it is almost impossible to eat too many calories as it takes so long to eat and you are full before you finish the bowl, also it does not affect blood glucose too much which may affect appetite. Forgot to say highly calorific/carby fruit , eg banana ,would be consumed in limited amounts if you need to lose weight.
I have also been experimenting with skipping breakfast which seems to work for me as I tend to get hungry late at night. Also there is some evidence that diabetics can lower their Hba1c with this probably because you avoid a meal spike with breakfast and then when you eat 2 meals worth for lunch the spike is the same as it would be if you ate half the amount. This is possibly because insulin is stored for use on the surface of the pancreas and more is there for use when lunch time comes as it was not used for breakfast? Anyway it seems to work for me at the moment
