I don't know why we need 'amazing diet secrets' at all; it seems to me that, barring metabolic disorders, most of it is just "Do <i>something</i>, anything, about your diet".<p>I pursued the following program for a semester:  1 meal a day (a sizable, but not huge, dinner at the end of the day --often McDonald's), and a 2/3 mile walk.  I lost 15 kg, from over 80 kg to just over 65 kg, in the semester, and a few of those kilograms went away already in the first <i>week</i> --talk about instant gratification.<p>When that drop was done, I went back to 2 meals a day but kept up the walking (although essentially no other regular exercise).  I basically eat what I feel like, although, after a semester of eating 1 meal a day, what I feel like eating is much less than it used to be.  I have been a bit over 60 kg for about 3 years now.