Contact your doctor or a dietitian and discuss with them what suits you. The tricky thing about losing weight is the fact that you are dealing with a basic need, namely food. Everyone has to eat, whether you like it or not. It is also very difficult to live without being confronted with food in one way or another. You see people around you eating, you do the shopping yourself, and you prepare the food. Time and again these are moments when you are confronted with the need to eat and with your desire to have less weight. Food is fuel Food is available to a large extent in our society. When we are hungry we go to the cupboard and get fuel from it.