If this is the first article on OverallHealth.com you are reading you probably shouldn’t start here.  But you’re going to do what you want to anyway, so I will provide a little clarification to bring you up to speed on how you would use this list.  First, you have to decide if you need a diet or a lifestyle change.  A diet (as I use the term) is a temporary change to your lifestyle (exercise and eating habits) diets are good for losing small amounts of weight that will come back over time.  If you want to lose ten pounds because you have a reunion or event coming up, you probably need a diet; hopefully, you find one that works.  A lifestyle change (which is what most of the articles I write focus on) is a complete overhaul of what you eat and how you exercise.  A lifestyle change is required for those who are significantly overweight.  Because it’s not just enough to lose the weight- you have to lose the weight and keep it off. 

Shawn’s Ten Keys to Weight Loss are geared more toward lifestyle changes. But if you are looking to go on a diet, there are many things in here that will help you as well.

The first step to weight loss as I see it is to do a complete examination of your lifestyle.  You can read more about that here.  Once you do that you develop your plan and the rest will fall into place.