So slow...

You can go on crazy diets or extreme calorie counting and lose weight fast but it a false loss because as soon as you stop it will all go back on and sometimes more. Slow steady weight loss with a review of the food you eat is the way to go. Try and stay positive. If you want you can set your food dairy up to be view by other people and we can look at what your eating and offer advise if we can?? - Good luck

You probably don't want to hear this either, but with how much you have to lose, it won't come off that quickly because you can't set your calorie deficit so high or you'll enter the dreaded "starvation mode." If you truly did gain the weight without changing any of your eating or exercise habits, then maybe you should see a doctor.

i figure that losing it slowly is the healthiest way to lose weight, and the most likely to succeed because you are changing your life and setting new habits over the long term.

I have a year planner at the front of my diary and at the top of each month i write my weight so i can see on a monthly basis how much i'm losing, and although it's only 2-4kg a month, over the course of this year i've lost 16.5kg.

sometimes when i feel like i'm getting nowhere, i just look back over the year and think, well half a kilo a week is perfectly fine on average, some weeks are better than others, but as long as i've lost 2kg at the end of the month, that's fine.