It's a struggle. If you follow the guideline plans and eat 2000 calories a day and eat the fruit, vegetable requirements you can, it's not going to be a lot if you aren't excercising though. I think I'm down 10 lbs in a year, but I also stray a lot. I have low willpower so if I pass a Krispy Kreme or something I'm going to probably grab a donut over a bagel. I'm prone to a sprite over a water. I think if I could find the willpower to switch out my sprite for a water with lemon and stop grabbing a donut when the mood strikes, it'd be working better. It's all about calorie counting and not eating a ton of meat. I found almost all my calories were coming from eating a large slice of pork or a whole chicken breasts at a meal twice a day. I use MyFitnessPal to track calories and try to adjust accordingly, I've found in the last year I've one from roughly 3300 calories a day to 2000-2500, If I got down to the 2000 and carved out time for walking I'd probably go down to a healthier size.