Move to Darfur, you'll get alot of exercise running away from angry locals waving AK-47's. I call it the Kalasnikov diet.

Weight loss done right takes time. It's a matter of changing your diet and activity habits over time to eventually get where you need to be to sustain slow and gradual but steady weight loss. Anything done fast will cause you to fall back into whatever habits you currently have, so forget about cold turkey diets or throwing away every snack in your house or whatever. Just make small changes to reduce fat intake and increase nutrition (fruits/veggies/beans are a good source) and increase physical activity. Keep changing this every week, steadily, in the right direction. After a few months you'll have changed your diet a lot, you'll have more energy, you'll feel better and more positive, and you may start to see a difference on the scale. Weigh yourself no more often than every week. At first, every two weeks is better.

And make sure you don't have people around you that encourage you to stay as you are for two reasons: 1) Sometimes friends and family want someone to stay fat to make themselves look better and 2) Sometimes friends and family want someone to stay fat because they don't want to feel like they should be losing weight too, and they think that person will force them to change their habits (which they very likely should do).

Man up and hit the gym.

I have to say, some of those "I have to lose extreme amounts of body fat" advertisements show a person who is generally alright before, so I can see this. It goes for both men and women, they show before pictures of people who don't look too bad, then go on and show them complaining they are HUGE then a "doctor" comes in and says how the product is "only for those looking to loose an EXTREME amount of body fat", then they show the "happy couple" again with a bunch of muscles and running on a beach. (which you do NOT get just using diet fat burning crap anyway) Granted its good to be healthy and America isn't the healthiest country overall, but its still part of the "you have to be very thin and muscly to look remotely good" agenda. Both of those people looked alright to begin with, and probably were decently healthy, but they can't show you that its ok to be happy like that.

wow. get off your ass and do something so you can look like the before picture then, go be bitchin about it on a website.

I actaully saud 'Aww' when I read this. You can lose the weight. :) These people have given you great advise. ^^ Good luck!

What amused me is that this FML showed up at the top of the page, and directly above it was one of those ads.

When someone told you, "Grow a pair," they weren't talking about man-boobs.

this may not be the case in this fml, but I have seen alot of bullshit weight loss advertisments and most of the time they show someone who isn't even fat in the before picture, and then barley skinnier in the after pic.