A few diet questions

[Danimal]

This is my first post on this board but i've been reading this one and a few others for a while i also get muscle and fitness and mens health monthly
every diet plan i've seen has been very vague and doesn't really include specifics such as do you eat the same thing every single day? what are some options to substitute certain foods with. Also how do you guys use scales to weigh your meat? I work 3-11:30 so i usually do cardio when i wake up then eat then go to the gym with a friend to lift then off to work so most of the diets i see don't necessarily fit in with my schedule. I'm 24 5'10 240 im not sure what my bodyfat is(im sure its high) i was working out about 5 days a week for a while and was down to 221 with 21% bodyfat without really doing too much special diet wise(basically eating what i wanted) then the gym i was going to shut down and i didnt workout for about 4 months and went up to about 255. ive been back at the gym 4-5 days a week for about 5 weeks now and would like to have a good diet in place this time, i lose weight pretty quickly so im excited to see what i could do if i ate well.
I know a lot of you know your stuff here and know way more than i do so any opinions and suggestions would be really appreciated
My goal now is to lose bodyfat without losing too much muscle
here is an example of what ive been eating on the avg day for the last week or so.

10:00 am Breakfast:
20g protien shake(after waking up)
30 mins cardio
5 egg whites 1 full egg
1 cup oatmeal
1 banana(or grapefruit)

11:30 am1-1.5 hour of lifting
postworkout:
40g protien shake mixed with 12 oz choc milk(or just water and instead i'll eat some peanut butter)
1 apple

3:30pm lunch:
8 oz chicken breast(or 8 oz steak)
1.5 cups of broccoli

5:00pm snack: 1 cup cottage cheese sometimes with pinapples

7:00pm dinner 2 8 oz chicken breast(or 8 oz steak)
1.5 cup of vegetables

12:00 am 25 mins of cardio (sometimes i end up lifting this time if i can't earlier)
before bed snack: 1 cup cottage cheese 1 banana

[andysutils]

I hear the best way is to go Ketosis and that invloves keeping your carbs to a max of 30g per day, I dont know much about fat loss as ive never had to do it mate but one thing i can see in your diet you might want ot ditch is the bananas as they raise blood sugar levels which defeats the purpose of keto.

Other guys might be able to help more.

It looks like form looking at your diet you might be exceeding that carb rate.

Heres a diet i came up with, its not for me and it might be totally wrong but I wrote it out just in the event in a million years I would by some miricle actually gain some fat

this is not in any particular order.

10 whole eggs
5 tablespoons natty peanut butter
300g chicken breast with brocolli
2 scoops whey protein
1 tablespoon olive oil
120g sardines
6 oz steak


Cals
2477

protein
277g

Fat
129g

Carbs
29.7g

Someone may point out that this might kill you lol, thats just the way I understand keto.

I could have actually just give you a link to a keto article, you might wanna contact Sportsclub on here, she seems to be bang on with the keto and fatloss thing, hope she dont mind me mentioning her.

[beesting]

If you can, try doing cardio on an emty stomach

[Danimal]

Thank you for the responses Im going to read up on keto diets the rest of the day