You can lose weight and obtain the body that you desire however you are not going to lose a hundred pounds in only a week. It took a while for you to become overweight and it is going to take some time and effort to get rid of your excess weight. Like anything else in life if you do not set realistic goals to start with you are going to quickly fail and give up. So what is a realistic goal for most people. Generally speaking you are probably not going to be able to lose much more than a pound a week in a way that is healthy and will last long term. You can drastically increase your rate of weight loss if you are willing to do some intense weight training, eat a near perfect diet and use some of the natural supplements spoken of in other tips here. It is certainly possible to lose ten, twenty or even more pounds in a month if you workout like crazy, eat a perfect diet and use every known supplement to enhance weight loss. But most people reading this are probably not going to go to this extreme so set you goal to lose around a pound a week and if you stay with your program you can still easily lose at least fifty pounds in a year which would make a huge difference for most people.