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A solid routine can help. For years now I've started my day with oatmeal. Cup of oats, cup of frozen blueberries. It's become a morning ritual. Oats are good for fiber which help you feel full.
Stock high fiber items (same reason as above).
Rethink what "feeling hungry" means. Your level of hunger shouldn't indicate how much food you eat. It should indicate how soon you eat.
Before eating, chug water until you feel physically full. This will force you to eat slower and trigger your sated feeling quicker. If you just sit down to a meal and start inhaling food, your body can take a few minutes to really register you're eating. This is why people sometimes "hit a wall" when gorging themselves. They've blown past where their body should have said "you're full" before their body can send those signals to your brain. Eating slower and having a "full" stomach help to make sure you feel sated at the right time.
Get out of the habit of eating until you are really full. Have things to pull your attention after an appropriate amount of food. Start down that Google rabbit hole that just popped into your mind so you think about that rather than eating more. This can also help with eating slower if you're in a situation where using your phone while eating is acceptable.
Make small incremental changes. People that suddenly upend their entire eating habits for the new fad diet change too much too quickly. It can be hard to stay the course.
Understand this is a long road. You won't shed pounds overnight. That being said, don't get down on yourself for messing up. It is a full lifestyle change. The small things over time start to add up. If you don't stick to all of these religiously, that's OK. Just make a concerted effort to do them more frequently than you did last week or last month.
You can't out-exercise a bad diet. Unless you are doing olympic level training that requires more than normal calories, a bad diet will destroy your chances. It's much easier to have a quick extra snack or heavier dessert adding hundreds, if not, thousands of calories in a single day. Running 5 miles might burn 500 calories. A couple candy bars will be more than that.
That being said, finding the right exercise can drastically improve your chances. I took up Jiu-jitsu and muay Thai. Doing that 2-4 nights a week is great for now than just weight loss.
Key points: make small changes you can stick to, focus on "better than yesterday" even if it's not perfect, reshape how you think about certain activities (when to eat, how much to eat, what to eat), develop a routine that you don't need to think about.