It's difficult starting off... I used to consume Chinese food, burgers, fried chicken, etc on a daily basis because the food is usually cheap. I weighed about 230 at the time and just looked completely out of shape & sluggish.
I slowly started replacing foods... started to only eat lean meats like chicken (not fried) & Fish & eggs. After a while I started to enjoy making different dishes based around those foods and eventually learned to really like salads with chicken, fish or eggs in them.
California has Costco & Smart&Final that sells whole cooked chickens for $5 & vegetables are cheap.
Now all I eat is chicken salads, fish served with salads & egg based meals as well. I went from 230 to 175 in 3 months while doing cardiovascular exercises. I've maintained that weight and at one point didn't exercise nor go to the gym for a year just to see if I could maintain it & for an entire year just eating clean I was able to maintain 175.
At one point I had to stop going to the gym and had to eat fatty foods again because I dropped too much weight, down to 145 but once I hit around 175 again I just stayed with the same regime of foods.
Even now if I go eat somewhere I always substitute beef or pork with chicken & have grown to actually love chicken salads & fish.
Clean Eating = Clean Body
Lean Foods = Lean Body