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If you're serious about making a long term life change to better your health and fitness (hint: you should be) I think the book Burn The Fat Feed The Muscle by Tom Venuto is where you should start. It's where I wish I started. Tom, an accomplished body builder, will give you tools to do more than I could ever type out here.

For a 2 birds 1 stone situation get a free audible credit (lots of ways to do this if you look, or just buy it), download the audiobook, and listen to it while you run and lift! Training for my 2 marathons would have been impossible without a motivating fitness book playing in my ears. If you get the book (which you should) don't skip the parts you think are "cheesy" or "uncomfortable", especially the goal setting.

Support is another huge thing. Surround yourself with people who will praise your efforts or better, join them. If my 53 y/o dad didn't push me to go from a 5k to a 10k I would have never run one and subsequently probably never run 2 marathons or climbed Mt Rainier. Little acts of support from loved ones goes a long way. /r/fitness is another place I like most days.

Finally as a over simplistic guideline to not just lose weight, but transform your body:

1. Eat enough of the right stuff in the right quantities. Try to eat natural foods 80-90% of the time and "cheat" 20-10% of the time. This alone solves many fat loss plateaus. Get enough protein.
   
2. Do some form of resistance training. I had great success with SL 5x5. Starting Strength is also popular on reddit. Now I do exclusively /r/bodyweightfitness beginner routine and it's a blast.
   
3. Do some form of cardio. Is cardio required to lose weight and get super lean? Nope. Does it improve overall health and if done in correct amounts aid fat loss? Yep. And if you want to prioritize cardio over weights then go for it! But remember, even track stars lift.
   
4. Mental health and recovery. You just ran as far as you could 7 days in a row? Oh cool bro, and now you can't train for a week while you recover from being stupid. And now you're burned out and hate working out and can't get motivated? No duh, you did crossfit as-heavy-as-possible before you knew good form. On the flip side don't be like my gf was when she went paleo for a month during finals and ended up breaking down crying because she couldn't eat a chocolate bar. Be smart.
   
5. Remember the nutritional hierarchy of importance and relax.

I recently read a book called "Racing Weight" found here on Amazon. His other book, The New Rules of Half-Marathon and Marathon Nutrition is also great. He really goes into how to eat to fuel your muscles properly and how weight can affect PRs in endurance sports. Give it a shot!