bah i had such a long reply typed upt here and it's disappeared n i cant be bothered doing it all again.

anyways i managed to lose a coupla stone within a few months basically goign to the gym religiously and cutting some crap out of my diet.

here's the overview:

drink diet juice as much as you can. no calories in it

drink as much water as possible (even better than diet juice)

dont eat anythign after 8 pm or just before you go to bed

diets are mostly pointless. you lose weight by burned more calories than you take in. diets lower your calorie intake so you lose weight. what happens as soon as yopu start eating carbs or stop living off of carrots? yup more calories than your burning so weight goes back on again. the only way to get it off and keep it off is to change your diet reasonably and exercise.

cut out the fast food as much as possible. i cant even remember the last time ive been in a mcdonalds and lets face it. im not exactly missing much

lager and beer is the devil. sad but true. vodka and diet coke is about the lowest calorie drink you can have but i dont always feel like vodka and have a wierd stigma about drinking it in the house so i'm getting into white wine. if you could buy it in nightclubs im pretty confident i could drink it exclusivly. not as many calories and it's pretty impossible to put weight on with it. i know a girl that works in an office, goes out at least 3 times a week, usually more and drinks not far shy of 10 bottles of wine a week and she looks anorexic. you look sophisticated as well unless you're A: drinking out of the bottle or B: drinking lambrini. both of which ive done

if you go to the gym, work towards calories burnt, not times because there's less a chance of you gettin bored and thinking ive been on this for x amount of time im bored.

this also helps when you're eating cos you think this mars bar is x calories which is y minutes on the cross trainer, i think ill give it a miss

i used to do 2 100 calorie sessions on 5 machines. thats 1000 calories in about an hour roughly and you're on the machines from 4-12 minutes instead of some people doing 10-20 and hating it

do weights too. I like doing it just to keep the muscle there and so i can handle muself if needed but muscle burns up calories. the more muscle equals the more calories burned. and it's fun to act all macho and see if you can lift what the person before you did lol

instead of havign a kebab or pizza when you pile out of the pub or dancing. jump in a taxi, go home and go to bed. if the night has been a succes then you'll be drunk and fall asleep straight away. no food goes in, no weight goes on.

if you get tempted to have something you know you shouldnt or jump off a machien early, just think how that will make you happier as opposed to how happier you are when someone comments on your weight loss or how good you're looking.