Here are three ways you can start losing weight today.

Many people need to lose weight, but find it almost impossible to stay on a diet or to stay on one and lose weight. You need activity to lose weight, and any activity is great. If you lose 20 or 30 pounds and keep it off, does it really matter if it took you one month (which incidentally is impossible) or 12 months. You can lose significant weight, starting today, by adding simple and easy activity.

Start a meal or replace a meal with something healthy. Now if you want to start training for a marathon, that's OK too, but entirely unnecessary. I might start dinner for example with a salad without lots of high calorie dressing or a piece. It is possible to lose weight without a formal diet, and for that extra weight to start slowly leaving.

Slow weight loss is fine; it tends to stay off longer. Diets have negative connotations and are no fun at all. In fact if you are a couch potato almost anything will make an enormous difference.

Especially if you didn't need to experience the pain of a diet.