I don't know how but I hit my 10% already. Ok maybe I know how. For anyone who is having trouble I have a couple of tips. It works. I was 267.4 when I started and I'm 235.1 today.
(1) Most important is try to start doing something like the cross trainer at the gym. It's the machine that's an elliptical but you also have the ski pole looking handles that you can use to make steps easier by pushing with your arms. Day 1 do 10 minutes. It'll suck. Day 2 do 15. Day 3 and 4 maybe do 15. Then step it up to 30 min. I do 30 minutes almost every day. It gets your pulse up. It gets your metabolism going. 30 minutes isn't hard if you watch a TV show while you do it. Planet Fitness is $10/month.
(2) If you can afford it get a FitBit Flex. It'll make you feel guilty when you don't do activity. If your friends have a FitBit then friend them and use group guilt to keep you active. Or on a positive angle call it competition :) When I look at my old boss Lenny with 70,000 steps in a week I'm always wondering how does he do it? And I try so hard to get there. I will catch up with you Lenny... somehow.
(3) Diet changes. This is probably hardest for people. If you eat badly you won't lose weight. The absolute easiest diet in the world is Dr. William Davis' diet. The book is called Wheat Belly. You eliminate wheat initially because that's hard, but simple to find in the ingredient lists. Once you give up wheat for 5 days you will never miss it. Now give up Potato, Corn, Rice and Tapioca Starch. I'm not saying to give up Potatoes or Corn. I'm just saying in the ingredient list when you see "Potato Starch" it's not a good ingredient. This is a bit harder especially when dining out. That's all there is to the diet though. It's not complicated. You'll find when you give up these ingredients that you end up going from a dinner plate that has no colour to trying all sorts of things. There's no calorie counting. There's no nothing. Just eat when you are hungry. That's it. Eliminate wheat and you'll see that wheat is an appetite stimulant and without it you simply eat less. You don't have swings in your blood sugar. You can go from pre-diabetic or diabetic (type II) to normal sugar. Your HDL and LDL numbers will look better. Inflammation goes down. We've all been poisoned by the food industry. Don't believe me? I weighed 278 back in April. I started on May 3rd and it's been 3 months on this diet and I didn't go to the gym at all in the 1st month. I have lost a total of 39 pounds in 3 months or about 13 pounds per month. Yes for the past 2 months I have been doing the cross trainer at the gym. Don't discount the health benefits of that. But I don't eat less. Sometimes I feel like I eat so much that my belt is going to pop. I still lose weight. It's the 30 minutes on the eliptical, the guilt my FitBit gives me to work out, and giving up this crap called wheat. You may say "But wheat is old.. been in the bible... how can it be so bad?" Well wheat that we eat today is Semi-Dwarf wheat. It has only existed since the 1960's. It absolutely is not what was in the bible. It's not what healthy kids in the 1940's and 50's ate. It's chemically modified and hybridized and is absolutely bad for you and food companies don't care. You see wheat makes you hungry. This sells more food. Ask yourself why there is wheat in the popcorn butter at AMC movie theatres? Isn't it supposed to be butter? Ask yourself why wheat is in EVERYTHING. Go to your pantry. Take a look. Why is it in things that don't need wheat?
Ok enough of my rant on wheat. I'm angry because I spent 40 years dealing with my weight only to find out that the FDA has allowed me to be poisoned all my life. By the way.. whole grain is a lie. For diabetics you know this. The glycemic index of whole wheat bread is basically the same as white. It's all garbage for you. If you must have fast food or eat out know that Wendy's has a gluten free menu and Outback Steakhouse as well. Google and you will find others.