Diets do not work. Lifestyle and habit changes do. If you’re on a diet, you will fail. I have never been on a diet and never will be, thus why I did not fail. And I’m not exercising or working out. I am a person who works out. This is the difference — it’s a lifestyle, a habit, not just some temporary state of being after which I will go back to some “normal” resting state.

I don’t mean to sound like some self-help guru but the main obstacle is always mental. We have crap software (Human OS 1.0 is terribly buggy) so we must overcome it however we can.

The above, in short, is the most effective way I know how and it seems to comport with science to a great degree. Lifestyles and habits, not diets and “hitting the gym.”