[kattsand]

I'm gonna share my own experience of losing weight:

In september last year I decided I'm gonna lose some weight. I'm 5' 10" and I weighed around 176 lbs at that time.

Started swimming and taking walks
I started swimming for about 40 minutes 3 times a week and sat in the sauna for about 15 minutes after that.
I started taking 30 minute walks at nights a couple of times a week.

Changed my diet
I used to eat meat with every meal every day and loved it.
Instead I started with pretty much no meat. I pretty much ate an all vegetarian diet except for one or two meals per week that had meat in it (that includes all animals).
I quit drinking soda and milk, ate "clean" food with no additives and cut the portion size to about half and ate every 3 hours.
Loads of lentil-soup, hard bread (the stuff we have here in Sweden), baked potatoes, vegetarian burgers and loads of salad and beans.

Started working on my mindset
For every stroke I took in the swimmingpool I said something uplifting in my mind. Something that I wanted to change.
I started reading inspirational books. Unlimited Power by Tony Robbins and The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari and stuff like that.

All that has become an upwards spiral with my mind working with me instead of against me. I think the most important part was the mindset thing, when you see the physical change combined with the better mindset to things you just want to keep going further.

Around christmas I weighed about 143 lbs and was feeling great, I still am. Now I gained about 10 pounds of muscles since I've started do some weight-lifting instead of swimming.

PS: There is no shortcut to better health. You just have to kick yourself in the face and ****ing do it.

PS2: Since money ain't a problem for you it should be easier for you to buy high quality food and good books. I've had some struggle with getting good food and books since I don't have much money after paying rent and bills.