You don't need to spend money on fancy products to loose weight! They may work, but they cost! There are much cheaper and simpler ways.
Here are my tips:
1.
Count your calories (Use your stats, height, weight and age, to figure out your daily caloric needs, then you want to subtract 500 from that and aim to eat that everyday, I can help with this if needed)
2.
Drink lots of water, at least 8cups + a day (water helps so much in burning fat it's imperative that you drink the stuff! It will help and not only that make you feel better. Most people are DEHYDRATED way before they even know it, way before you even feel thirsty, you are DEHYDRATED! And this is not good for the body and fat burning)
3. Eat protein, and at each meal of the day (protein not only keeps you feeling full but it assists with promoting fat being used for fuel)
4. If you can, increase your meals to 4 or 5 a day (eating on a regular basis every three hours will not only stop you from feeling hungry but it will also increase your metabolic rate (metabolism) which means more calories will be burnt by your body)
5. Eat fats (essential fatty acids, omega 3, 6 and 9 and unsaturated fat, you need to eat fat (but NOT saturated fat) in order to loose fat, simply because the body will not use fat (or as much as it could) for energy if it is not getting a source of fat from our diets)
6. Don't eat a lot of high-carbohydrate foods (and stay away from simple carbohydrates (sweets, sugar, cakes, white bread etc) complex car'bs are good but for fat burning should also be limited (brown bread, brown rice, oats etc) simply because carbohydrates will be completely converted into glucose by the body (energy source) and if not used, it will be stored as fat! And don't eat any carbohydrates with your meal before bed, because these will be stored as fat!)
7. Stay focused and determined! (Never doubt yourself or your plan, because this will cause you to feel dismayed and possibly stop! Do not give up and don't always use the scales as an indication of progress. You may well have lost fat, but gained muscle, so your weight doesn't change! So don't worry if you don't loose anything, keep going, you will.)
Motivation tips:
Keep a photo of what you look like now somewhere you can see it, I think you said you already did this, which is fantastic!! This will keep you determined.
Have one free meal, once a week! Have one meal sometime in the week, when you get to eat whatever you want (within reason now! Not too much, for example a bar of chocolate or packet of crisps) this is a great way to make you feel guilty afterwards and get even MORE determined to keep going! Along side that, you will be able to give into any cravings which have been hovering around which will keep those things controlled!
Hope I've helped, good luck, you'll do great!
