I'm slowly losing weight by myself, and found it's easier, waaay easier by simply not buying or eating anything already prepared!!
One more thing that is absolutely guaranteed to make you GAIN weight, is to drink diet sodas. The Aspartame in it seems to screw up your body's working correctly. People have gotten wise to it and sales have been down, they are now legally changing its name, at least 2 of them I've heard of, one of which is
Amino Sweet. Doesn't that sound nutritious?
Check this out, you'd be surprised.
And now I myself am trying to quit sodas..even changing to tea and coffee doesn't seem to help, there must be another drug in there to make it addictive!! Wouldn't surprise me a bit. But I'll win in the long run, I'm cutting down slowly, very slowly but less intake each day. It's like going off a drug.