answer:I don’t know how you approach losing weight, but I had to tell myself I was not dieting but I was restructuring my life so I could live longer. I knew it could not be a temporary thing, it was a wholesale change in eating habits and in exercise habits. And I also told myself that I would give myself 6 weeks to get past being uncomfortable. It actually took much less time than that, I felt better within a month. I slept better, I had more energy and didn’t feel I was as much of a burden. The most difficult stretch for me was that after losing 30 pounds, I started feeling a lot of feelings. And what I realized is that all the protection from emotion that comes from eating too much and having too much weight doesn’t make the feelings and emotions go away; it just means they get addressed in an unhealthy manner. And once you lose weight, you don’t have any other way to address them except to deal with them and process them. But once you do, it is so liberating. Good luck. I lost 60 pounds last year, and have kept it off for over a year. If I can do it, you can also.