There's no quick fix to lose weight. The only safe way to lose weight is to exercise & eat healthy.

If you already had the appointment scheduled - surgery (either liposuction or full-blown skin removal depending on severity). If you don't care that you are not loosing fat, diaretics and laxatives (but since you are not loosing fat it's not only unhealthy but also pretty pointless if you are doing it to look better). Most super quick weight loss pills and potions operate using one or both of these methods. The healthiest way to loose weight is a combination of a healthy, but lower calorie diet (~1500 calories a day for most people) and daily exercise, alternating days of strength training (since muscle raises your metabolism and may improve your posture) and aerobics. To maximize your results and make sure that you don't hurt yourself, please consider seeing a professional. Your local gym may have someone who can help you in terms of both nutrition and exercise. Remember, it may be tempting to overdo and rush things, but that makes you more likely to ultimately fail and end up gaining back more weight. Of course, it also puts you at risk for serious health problems and even death. And if that wasn't enough, you can end up looking terrible - thinning hair, puffy eyes, dark circles under eyes, dull skin, and so on.

Lots of fad diets will help you lose weight rapidly, but 99% of the time your body rebels and you end up heavier than before you started. So unless you only want to have a lower weight for a short period of time, and then be heavier than you are now, forget about rapid weight loss and be satisfied to lose slowly and steadily with a diet you can live with for the rest of your life.

So, other than having the surgery, like a gastric bypass, why not just try the diet they are restricted to? Lets face it, the reason behind reducing the stomach is to restrict the amount of food they can put in there. A neighbor had gastric bypass, I remember some of what she said. Eating less, avoid fats, reduce carbs, keep up on your protien (or you may start losing your hair), exercise and take your vitamins. The initial steps are pretty harsh, I think after the surgery they may not eat for a day or two? Then clear liquids only, other liquids (no that does not mean shakes and whatever you can puree). Then onto soft foods. Later, real food. Each stage is a week or more, I think. Remember the key is, the very small amt. I think she said the stomach holds only an ounce or two. If we all had the will power to do that, we wouldn't need diets or surgeries to begin with. I strongly suggest you talk to your doctor before doing it though.

Atkins. I think it was developed for obese heart surgery patients to lose fat rapidly prior to being operated on. A high protien extremely low carb diet.