The counselling will help. As Donnalou has said you have to really want to lose weight.
Either you want to be slim and you will follow the plan completely and do all phases, or you will not complete it.
It is all about your choices - you either abstain or you don't. If you don't you will find the diet very hard (and it will not work well), If you do, then you should find that the weight flies off much faster than any other diet. You will feel better, sleep better and think better!
I really wanted to do LL because of the counselling and especially the CBT to give me the tools to get the job done. I see losing weight as a major project that I am doing for myself. I have an end objective, and lots of smaller mini-objectives.
Every week I get closer to where I want to be. The success I have had - and the success you will have too will give you the energy to last the distance.
Yes - it is sometimes difficult to drink the water, Yes it is annoying getting up for the loo in the night and needing to be in reach of a loo all the time! Yes the upset stomach and/or constipation are a pain, and yes, the soups/shakes and bars are really really boring after a while.
Is it worth it - Absolutely Yes - most people on the diet think it is one of the best things they have ever done (I do). I also think it is the easiets diet ever (at least for me). Nothing is easy, but this is as close as you are going to get.
Think Positive - Stay on the plan and it is IMPOSSIBLE for you no to reach your correct weight.
Good Luck!