For every person that is overweight, there is often an underlying desire to lose some of the excess fat, become more fit, become more healthy, and generally take control of their lives. However, competing thoughts mean that in reality people rarely have the knowledge or the will power to be able to successfully lose weight for a prolonged period of time.
Diets are time consuming and faddy. With increased leisure activities and social diversity, it is more common these days to eat out in restaurants, cafes, and bars that will provide us with good food, good surroundings, and good service. Inevitably this means that our diets cannot be followed to the letter and, if they cannot be followed in the way that they should be, it is easier simply to simply discard them completely and therefore end up never losing any weight permanently.
Losing weight should never start with choosing a diet. Just like giving up any other lifestyle habit, it requires, more than anything, motivation, will power, and incentive. Obesity calls for weight loss, and weight loss calls for a strategy and an understanding that your life will be changed completely.
After all, your obesity did not happen overnight. It started when your lifestyle changed for the worse - you ate more food, you ate more bad food, you started doing less exercise, and you forgot how to keep your body healthy. This is not necessarily your fault, and you should not feel guilty about it.
But in order to take control of your body and your life now, you will need to select a time when you can decide the process by which you are going to achieve weight control and fat loss. Motivation starts within even before you pick up the latest book on diets.