I did Jenny Craig and had great success that lasted for years. Unfortunately, Jenny's way too costly for my current budget so, like you, I looked for other alternatives.
What has worked for me for months is plain ol' calorie counting. It's only as expensive as I make it. It is the absolute least restrictive possibility out there, as nothing is off-limits as long as your portions are in line. It can even have some variability if you want to do a zig-zag method and vary your daily calories from day to day; plenty of people like that their weekends are more calorific, permitting them to go out to eat and such.
However (and you knew there'd be one
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You have to be rigorous
somewhere. If you aren't rigorous about the types of foods you eat, you have to be rigorous about the amounts you eat. That means weighing and/or measuring your portions and writing down what you eat. I know you mentioned that you find keeping a food journal tedious, and yeah, sometimes it's a little bit of a PITA, but when the alternative is losing track of a sandwich here or a dollop of hummus there and wondering why I can't lose weight...yeah, I'll make the effort. It's ten minutes out of my day to write that stuff down, max.
Doesn't Jenny Craig make you keep a food journal any more? They did when I went. There was the pre-printed menu, but you also had to write stuff down yourself as the printed sheet didn't include all your snacks and such. Then again, that was years ago, so maybe they've dropped that. I'd be surprised if they did, though; research shows that people who write their food down consume 10 to 20% less without even trying to diet simply from being conscious of what they're eating.
As for portion control, if you get a food scale with a tare/zero function, it's a breeze. Turn on scale, set empty bowl on scale, hit "zero," add food to bowl, stop when you hit the appropriate number of ounces or grams, voila! No muss, no fuss, no measuring cups to clean.
I thought a lot of this stuff--the measuring, the writing, the counting--would make me feel uncomfortably obsessed. It doesn't. I feel no more obsessive about food than I feel obsessive about my teeth because I brush them twice a day. I'm not obsessive about my hair because I brush it several times a day, am I? Nope, because those are necessary maintenance tasks. They're what I do to keep myself in order. So is counting calories.
Congratulations on losing nearly fifty pounds so far! What got you this far? That's impressive weight loss, and maybe you can build on your previous success with few changes.