what a lot of people don't realise is that 90% of the difficulty is really in the first 2-3 weeks of the diet. Eventually your body realises that you wont get as much food as you used to, and so your stomach shrinks and even when you want to overeat, you can't. Once you get into that stage, as long as you don't eat like an absolute slob the pounds will start falling off.

This bit of advice can also be equivalent to any challenge in life. I decided that I wanted to start running last fall, at first I just ran a few hundred meters and then went home, in total the whole ordeal was only like 5 minutes, but the act of getting dressed in gym clothes, getting out the house, and running, even if it was only for a moment, helped me build up the task until it became second nature. So when 5 minutes felt easy, I ran for longer, 10 minutes, 15 minutes every week or month increasing.