Are you absolutely exhausted because your search for weight loss has been so long and so unsuccessful? What happens to many is that they just never quite identify the right weight loss diet recipe for their own body/lifestyle. Every weight loss program is based around basic elements: exercise, diet, calorie counting, point systems, etc. You have to get the right combination of elements to work for you!

Finding the right combination or recipe of weight loss elements can be difficult. Some might say the perfect weight loss diet recipe is elusive. But if you know what aspects to consider it makes pinpointing what will work easier. First decide how much you need to lose and write it down so you can't vacillate later. Keep your weight loss goal realistic. If you pick an unrealistic goal you're just setting yourself up for failure.  

Think about what you've done when dieting in the past. Identify methods that you were already "not successful" at. These are negative choices. You already know they don't work. Identifying what already didn't work is a great second step. It could be a pattern of negative choices when it comes to the actual programs or the negative patterns could be more "you" based.   

You might notice that you often chose to diet using huge weight loss facilities. You might notice that you often chose to lose weight using medical procedures that left you gaining weight back afterwards. You might notice that you typically chose to lose weight using calorie counting programs (and you could never quite keep track of your calories).  

Or the problem might not be with the type of weight loss program you accessed. It might be a negative pattern that is all you. Maybe you have a bad habit of never actually completing a weight loss program. Maybe you have a bad habit of jumping from one program to another without ever allowing enough time for full completion with maximum chances for results. Maybe you don't follow the rules. Maybe you make too many illegal exceptions (for favorite foods, restaurants, or holidays).

Identifying these negative patters makes potential dieters and dieters stronger and more able to come up with the weight loss diet recipe that will result in weight loss. If you can't seem to make yourself follow the rules then try a program with so few rules it's almost impossible to break them. Or try a program with so many options that you don't feel the need to break them because you don't feel restrained.  

Or if you always had trouble with dieting because you're pretty social then you need to figure out how to overcome the dilemma of eating out and sticking to diet. Find a new place to go out that offers a menu with options approved for your diet. Or...choose a short term weight loss program that offers weight loss results and just stay home while you're on the diet.

Really...the reason you haven't lost weight in the past only matters because you want to overcome it and make sure that your next weight loss program is successful. So come up with a weight loss diet recipe that will work for you and move forward.