Hi, I'm new- and dieting with food issues.

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Hi,
I'm an undiagnosed Aspie (I've just been referred for assessment) and have been struggling with food issues for a long time. I need to lose weight, but I'm really struggling - my diet is very restricted and mostly junk, I eat safe foods for comfort too. Any time I try to diet I end up absolutely obsessed and doing major calorie restriction. The same happens with exercise, although I also have fairly large time constraints. I am also not allowed to do high impact exercise due to hypermobile joints and a tendency to injure myself.
Can anybody suggest something I could try, someone I could speak to? I'm really struggling.
Thanks.

I can only tell you what I would do if I were in your shoes. I would focus on what I ate rather than how much or bothering to count calories. Taking each day to refine my food selection to include healthier and more nutrtious food and let the weight take care of itself. I wouldn't expect myself to do a 180° turn around in one day from eating junk to eating entirely healthy, it would be a work in progress.

I can't reccommend anything more than strength training, weights or just body weight like yoga or pilates(youtube is a great place to start), nothing has helped me more in dealing with certain physical disabilities/deformities and pain issues that I have while having a very beneficial effect on my depression/mental well being.

Instead of trying to break your habit by using food to cope with life, instead replace that habit with something healthier. A habit is much easier to replace than break. For me that was strength training.