So the really hard part is not knowing what to do but managing to do it - willpower, feeling hungry, craving sugars, whatever. I've lost 15kg (so far) followin

So the really hard part is not knowing what to do but managing to do it - willpower, feeling hungry, craving sugars, whatever. I've lost 15kg (so far) following the current (they keep changing it) Weight Watchers plan, which is mostly a series of tricks designed to create a calorific deficit without me feeling hungry and miserable all the time. Works for me. Okay, so I have to pay, but it works and that's important (and I can afford it). I don't think any one method is going to work for everyone, because so much of effective weight loss is a mental game and you need to find the game that works for you. Research, think, consider yourself and your needs and then go for it. Personally, I tried calorie counting and I just couldn't handle the nitpicking nature of it. WW turn everything into much broader units, which are rather crude but it all seems to work out in the end. Although that said I'm currently stuck 3kg away from my goal weight because having crossed into the "healthy" BMI category and experienced a huge boost in my energy levels, physical fitness and capability my motivation has faded somewhat. I look better (people have commented, which is nice). I can dance more (I'm a morris dancer, yesterday I danced a solo jig after three other dances in blazing sunshine and I was fine, couldn't have done that last year) and I can do much, much better at aikido training (not only do I have more stamina throwing people around, I can also be thrown much better as I can fall better because I've got less excess mass to worry about when I hit the floor - I've been told it's much more fun to train with me than it was when I was at my heaviest). So however you do it... it's worth it. But it's impossible to say there's just one method anybody needs, because you have to get over your own mental hurdles first. Which is not just the system btw... I had to change jobs to give me the mental space to pull it off, as I was miserable and depressed and comfort eating constantly.