Well when you have your first young heart attack that may motivate you, perhaps it will be diabetes... perhaps stroke? The number one cause of lack of enthusiasm in diets is that diets DO NOT WORK. They do not fill the need for food, and most are so hideously unbalanced that many people "give up" and go back to eating crap. Do yourself a favor. Get a library card go to the library and look up this book: http://www.allbookstores.com/book/0670859559 Do Not buy it until you read it. See if what the authors say makes any sense to you. If it does then I strongly urge you to use the long term program - which is a program of reducing calories (by removing added fats and added sugars in your diet while eating more good stuff) Yes the book has the severe hard - all or nothing road in there - you most likely do not need that road, and would most likely benefit from the thousand and one tiny little "tricks" to increase your amount of exercise and to reduce "empty" calories. If you agree, go back to the library and pick up the books that are basically on the same subject (Less fat, less added sugar). If you follow the "easy" road you will not need "motivation" you will automatically come to eat properly, reducing your calorie intake while most likely having to eat more food to fill the big empty spot in your guts. Mind this is not a DIET - this is a lifestyle change - it is a doable lifestyle change. Here is the basic idea. cut back on sugars and fats which are high calorie foods in tiny packets, increase the low calorie foods which are low in calories but high in volume in order to "fill" your stomach while eating less calories. I'm going to round off some numbers here for ease of the maths - I will round down. Fat contains around 100 calories per tablespoon. sugar contains around 100 calories per teaspoon. A can of corn contains about 120 calories (3 servings) about 1 1/2 cup (16 tablespoons to a cup) (48 teaspoons to a cup) Based on a 2000 calorie a day diet you could either have 20 tablespoons of fat (little more than a cup) OR 20 teaspoons of sugar (less than half a cup) or you can eat 25 cups of canned corn. Now ask yourself which one of those would fill you faster and leave you feeling to full to eat more? You would have to find motivation to eat 25 cups of corn to get all 2000 calories. That is a very simple example, the reality is that you would balance out your dietary needs across the table, instead of eating 25 cups of corn, you would substitute with other low calorie, high volume foods (like six servings of veg and fruit) a day. The book also describes in detail how 6 smaller meals a day is better for the body than three or less big meals a day. Again you would have to find motivation to eat all of the food, not motivation to not eat.

i've swapped some junk food for healthy food, but it's the exercise i'm worried about. I hate sports and exercise and i can't even run to the end of my street without feeling like i'm gonna have a heart attack, so i just give up