[Nightwish]

If you truly want to lose weight, you need to do two things: start working out and start eating right.

To get the first done, get a gym membership. Don't get a cheap one, get an expensive one. This will get you to start going at least in the beginning (which is the toughest part) cause you'll hate to see your money flushing down the drain. If you still have some self-respect left, make a pact with yourself that you will go to the gym every single day for at least an hour for two weeks straight. Every single day! If you accomplish that for two weeks, exercising on a regular basis will have become part of your routine and getting yourself to the gym will no longer be a problem.

Next, start eating right. This means no more junk food. None. Don't try to wean yourself off it, just cut it off completely. And again, make a pact with yourself to cook decent meals and not eat any junk food for 2 weeks. When it comes to soda, switch to diet stuff. It'll taste like crap for the first couple days, but you'll quickly get used to it. After a week, you'll really like the taste and normal sugary soda will start to seem nasty. Same goes with beer. Switch to light beer and cut down your consumption to no more than 7 per week.

If you're a real man and have respect for yourself, you'll do all this and thank me later. And the best part is that unless you're morbidly obese already, you'll start seeing results very quickly. Good luck!