It’s not only professionals who know ways to lose weight fast, regular people post some ideas too.

Eat grilled or boiled meat such as steak and chicken instead of fried meat. Add spices to make it taste even better.

Give up the soda. If you consume a soda or two every day you are adding empty calories. If you find it hard to stop completely, cut back at first and drink water instead|Stop drinking soda. Those are empty calories so cut back and substitute water. (Note that the average person adds 90,000 calories a year from sipping juice or soda. WOW! That’s a great tip.)

Don’t buy junk food. Shop according to a list. If you don’t have junk food at home you won’t eat it.

Treat yourself at least once a week to the foods you really like. That will help you avoid binging with cravings. When you treat, don’t go to extremes.

Use a smaller plate to trick yourself into thinking you’re eating more than you really are. (Not only are you tricking yourself, even if the trick doesn’t work it’s easier to stop eating when the plate is finished and there’s no more food to eat.)

Get poor. Gamble away your money so you can’t afford food. (Um, no. That’s a bad idea.)

Stay away from fad diets. They starve you and then you binge when the diet is over.

Exercise at every opportunity, even at the desk with some leg lifts. (That’s a great idea to increase caloric burn.)

The three most important factors in healthy diet are portion control, portion control and portion control. (Portion control is a big part of a healthy diet. Most restaurants and even people at home serve portions that are too large.)

Step in front of a moving train. You’ll wake up from the coma a slimmer you. (Another bad idea. It’s best to stick to ways to lose weight while remaining healthy. After all, the ultimate goal is better health.)

Stick to something long enough to repeat it a few times, then you can coast. (It’s said that if we repeat something 21 times it becomes a habit. Sometimes the number is different, but the idea is the same. Will power is only needed to repeat something enough times for it to become|turn into a habit.)

When you eat fast the body doesn’t have time to feel full. Go slow.

The folks out there know a lot about weight loss. Ask your friends for support and more ideas.