What's a good recipe for losing weight?

Number 1 thing is Excersise!

If you can take just abit more excesise you will start to lose weight. And once youve got you excersise going you can start to eat more cabohydrates (pasta and such) when your going to excersise and less meaty fatty food that arnt gonna give you the slow energy release you need.

Problem is with diets is they deplenish your stores of sugar and these stores release water, this mean you will lose quite a bit of weight in water very quickly but then they will run dry, the lack of sugar stores makes you drepressed and the weight stops dropping because all the water has been released. And genrally people go back to their normal diet here and replenish their sugar (glycogen stored in the liver as opposed to fat)and end up where they started.

But if you can start going for a swim once a week say, or a run if you feel like it Or even better a team sport.