Gnu my friend, just try a nicely balanced selection of foods totalling less than 1800 calories or thereabouts. Get some exercise and call it a day. OR you can get 3 or 4 ulcers and be atttacked by C-Dif bacteria in your bowel and you can drop 40 pounds in nothing flat. It does take some effort to keep it off but as a weight loss method I think it may be number one......although not too advisable!
Seriously, if you want a kick start to your diet, the hospital where Karen works is a Catholic hospital tied in with a chain of the same around the world, known as Trinity Healthcare. They all offer a diet tea blend made in Australia at their Sisters of Mercy hospital in Perth. The stuff tastes a little odd but it works like a champ as a calorie burner/catalyst type thing. You need to try it if you can find it. The weird taste is that part of the ingredients come from Koala bear "byproducts" and the tea is pretty strong with some serious particulate floating around in it. The good Sisters just brew it and bottle it up as is and when I asked about perhaps filtering a bit it before I drank anymore, I was told, "The Koala Tea of Mercy is not strained."