Don't do dieting the hard way. check out the shangri-la diet. It has worked wonders for me. I have used it recently and I lost 8 pounds in 3 weeks.
It was invented by this guy and you can get most of the info on this site without buying the book. I got enough to lose weight anyway...
Seth Roberts and The Shangri-La Diet
Basically, you drink sugar water or tastless oil such as canolla oil and it tricks your mind into reducing your appetite. The inventor gives an evolutionary explanation for why it works. As we were evolving and food was scarce we needed to reduce our appetites to stop us from eating the food we had, and in times of abundance we needed to have a high appetite to build up food resources as fat. the way the brain knows what level to set your appetite at is through the amount of tastes you consistently take in. for example, if you eat something and then eat it again several times over the course of a few days it tells your mind there is an abundance of that particular food in your environment and increases your appetite to build up fat reserves. Taking in energy without triggering your taste has the effect of lowering your appetite by bypassing the trigger in your brain that controls your hunger and effectively making your brain think there is less food around(sugar water does this for some reason - my explanation is that pure sugar was rare as we were evolving and therefore it would be unhelpful to raises your hunger levels for something that wasnt on the menu more than was a few months or so).
It works really well for me...