If you are overweight and thinking about trying to lose weight without any form of guidance, you are really kidding yourself and setting yourself up for failure. If you are in this position then you need to get the right help to lose weight.
Not trying to be blunt, but if you are overweight in any shape or form it is because you haven't been given the right guidance or tools to get and keep your body in a healthy condition. This could be due to many things like time, family, career, motivation, lifestyle and so on. But all this does not matter. Even if you had the time and motivation, if you do not have the correct knowledge and understanding you are wasting your time anyway.
First of all, if you have tried diets before and they either work for a short period of time or not at all, it's because diets don't work. The first three letters of the word diet should give it away, they don't really help to lose weight but rather dehydrate you so that you quickly lose your water weight, which will always come back as soon as you rehydrate.
Forget quick fix diets, they will not help to lose weight. It is important that a healthy lifestyle is encouraged rather than dieting. Dieting stands for taking things away, which you can only do for so long. A healthy lifestyle takes nothing away but rather moderates the amount, so you will never have cravings for things you love, you just learn when you should and when you shouldn't.
Believe it or not, eating food will actually help you to lose weight and starving yourself will encourage your body to produce more fat cells, another reason why diets don't work. Eating something every couple of hours will help to lose weight faster than eating three meals a day 4 or 5 hours apart. This is because you increase your metabolism by feeding your body more often. Your body has no choice but to burn fat because it begins to learn that there will be more coming in a couple of hour's time. Rather than trying to hold on to the food and store it as fat because it knows it will be a while before it gets fed again.
Simply taking your three meals a day, halving them and turning them into 6 meals a day will cause an immediate change in your body's metabolic rate and help to lose weight straight away. That should be your first step in the right direction. An easy thing you can do with really no effort. If you can't find the time to do this, then make the time. It doesn't take long to eat a small meal and you will find that your energy levels will also increase with in the first few days.
Remember you are not eating any less than normal, just more frequently. Doing this will help to lose weight, but will not get you to your desired goals. It will assist you enough to motivate you to take further action and find a healthily lifestyle guide that will give you the right type of nutritional advice and exercise routines for your specific body type. This should be your next step that will help to lose weight even further. Knowledge is power and without it it's like taking aim with a blindfold on, you're wasting your time.