congratulations on your loss 😀
as for food/diets, i find it best to find something you can stick with long term, as youre finding out, food can get dull if youre just eating it for the sake of it.
may not be for you, but personally i prefer using a version of intermittent fasting and lost 2 stone to get down to 10-12% body fat. now im ‘reverse dieting’ and slowly going up again, weight training as i go, the idea being that now ive lost my ‘muffin tops’ whatever i gain will hopefully be lean mass.
theres different ways to do it, but i find it easiest to basically ‘miss my breakfast’. i consume all my calories in an 8hr window, usually say half 12 til half 8, just coffees or water in the other 16hrs. my dinners usually pretty light, and then i look forward to ‘pigging out’ for tea.
i log my calories with ‘myfitnesspal.com’ and tailor them to whatever im trying to do. i lost the weight on 2000 cals per day.
as i say it may not be for you, its not a wonderdiet or anything, just a convenient way (for me) of limiting my calories and still enjoying my food. i find it easy to be hungry outside my eating window, others may not like that.
and as i said at the start, this is something i can do for ever, its easy. if i go on holiday i forget about it, pig out, put a few lbs on then back to business back home. same with nights out.