Well I got together with my friend over the summer when we decided to lose weight together. We had this whole meeting to work out plan that lasted for a little while but we haven't been so good about it lately :P. Umm but basically I cut down my calories by a lot. Calories are like the key to losing weight. You can have a lot of low cal foods, more than higher cal, i do a lot of research on the calories in foods and serving sizes. And I also wrote down all the reasons that I wanted to diet/exercise which kept my reasons in mind. Basically I was just so sick of gaining weight i really wanted to do something about it, so I did!