I'm all for supporting this and offering help. My wife is a pilates instructor and nutritional counselor and actually offers a weightloss product that addresses your subconscious thought patterns that keep you from reaching your weight loss goals. Because being overweight is almost always a symptom of some underlying issue.
Four of the biggest things you can do to help your body lose weight are:
1)eat real food. the fewer ingredients in your food the better. the body can't process the actual food when it's busy filtering out all those chemicals. If you're lucky enough to have a farmers market near you, it's a great way to eat organic more affordably. I buy my grass-fed, pasture-raised, organic ground beef from the hollywood farmers market and it's $4 A POUND. And when you eat it, it's like getting in a time machine and going back to the 70s. It literally tastes like a different time. It's amazing. Also cut high fructose corn syrup out of your diet as completely as you can. And don't switch to aspartame. That's just another nasty chemical. Just cut out soda. You'll be better off.
2)Cut out (or at least drastically reduce) your alcohol intake (as I type this I'm drinking a whiskey and soda but I'm generally really good on all the other points so I can allow myself this luxury). Healthy liver function is essential to losing weight. If you drink a lot you are severely handicapping yourself. Your liver can't process anything else until it deals with the alcohol. If you cut it out or at least reduce it you will notice a difference.
3)Drink tons of water. You want your body working at optimum performance and you have to be hydrated for that to happen.
4)Lift weights. Yes, Trembling Eagle was right. Lifting weights is one of the quickest ways to burn fat and it also stokes your basal (resting) metabolic rate, meaning the calories you burn while reading the FOT forums. If you're working out a lot you will find yourself hungry a lot. This is a good thing. If you're hungry thoughout the day it means your metabolism is speeding up. IF this is happening you should eat many small meals as opposed to two or three big ones.
GO TEAM.
OH, and put lots of loud, fast rock'n'roll on your zunes! hip hop is nice in the weight room, too.
Also, if anyone out there just needs to drop a couple pounds and wants to get a six pack, I have a men's health video that I tried and totally worked. Let me know (pm) and I'll sendspace it to you.