Any tips on losing weight?

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Sugar is a culprit in terms of weight gain, for a lot of people.

Oh yeah sugar. It's in everything as well. Plus people sometimes have sugar in coffee and tea and they drink cups of that all day long.

Drinking a pint of lager like bud light or fosters the equivalent of eating bread I think?

yes, as much as 2 slices of bread, actually (depending on the bread and the lager).

Load up on protein and healthy fats.

Skip the carbs, especially refined sugars but also most carb-heavy veg.

^that.

Plus intermittent fasting. In fact if you do nothing else do intermittent fasting.

Basically restrict your eating to a window of time in the day. I don't eat after 6pm and I don't breakfast until 11am. No need to start that restrictive though - work up to it. And though I use the word restrictive, it doesn't necessarily feel restrictive.

I wolf my food so it's hard for me to feel full up. So a little trick I learned is to put loads of black pepper on everything. It slows me right down and then it registers with my brain to let me know I'm full up.

Every year I give up all drinks except water during Lent -- 40 days.

No tea, coffee, soda, juice, milk, alcohol etc.

I always drop about a stone.

I don't normally drink a lot of other stuff - but it's enough of a reduction in sugar to do the trick.

I used to do a similar thing once a year but mine was chips, cheese and chocolate.

It made me shed the weight. I called it "the 3 C's diet".

I tried similar with chili peppers for awhile. All that happened is that my tolerance for spice went through the roof.

Wear tight fitting clothes to remind you when you are gaining weight.
I have an accurate scale in the dining room to check up on my weight.
Exercise helps reduce my appetite and make it easier to lose weight.

I found that simply eating less wasn't enough to get a thin waistline.
I dropped three inches by exercising and keeping the same weight.

How hard is it to reach a bmi of 25 with a lot of muscle and low body fat?

BMI doesn't distinguish between types of mass or the percentage of body fat only the total mass. A person with a low percentage of fat but heavily muscled will sill show an "unhealthy" BMI even they are not.

Got an en tire process of sticking to certian foods, logging everything to keep down to a certain level of calories a day, exercise every other day, running its is own procedure, weighing every day etc. This was at a time i was 5 foot 7 inches and 267LBS after being diagnosed with fatty liver disease and type 2 diabetes. Something needing changes because my diat and alochol intake after 10 years of picky eating and drinking caused some harm. I'd lost 117LBS over 4 years and maintained now for about 13 years.