To give you an accurate answer, or at least a more helpful one we'd need to know some specs. What is your BMI? What do your current eating/exercise habits consist of ? DO you exercise? What are your weaknesses? Obviously the underlying cause of excess weight is imbalance of incoming calories and those that you burn while exercising. I eat about 5 small meals a day. I'm never 'really' hungry. I drink a ton of water, and workout at least an hour day (sometimes 5 days a week)-a person has got to rest.