Here is my 2 cents:
1. Meditate 10-20 minutes a day (this may sound a bit strange but it is essential for mental health)
2. Get checked out by your doctor, have bloodwork done, make sure there is no hormonal cause for the extra pounds.
3. Find out the maintenance calories for your goal weight. Divide this by 5. Eat 5 small meals every 3 hours. This REALLY burns fat.
4. Eat only organic produce and grass fed meat/wild fish/ organic chicken and eggs. A small amount of olive oil and nuts each day. Eat only organic dairy products.
The food in the regular supermarkets is loaded with Genetically Modified food (avoid like the plague). Your best bet is Trader Joes/Whole foods. Make sure the label says "Organic".
5. Avoid all grains, rice, cereal, bread. anything with flour or sugar in it. Don't eat anything that comes in a box (granola bars, cereal, etc).
6. Eat Avocados (1 a day max) eggs, grass fed meats. These foods help to burn body fat.
7. Try to get 15-20 minutes a day of sunlight, without sunscreen on. You need natural vitamin D to burn fat.
8. Eat a big salad every day, and some steamed veggies also.
9. Start lifting weights. Do moves that involve multiple muscle groups. Do about 30-45 minutes 3 x a week If you don't have weights, do push ups and deepknee bends as well as lunges. Add more reps each day.
10. If you are able, and have a hill nearby, try running up it as far as you can and walking down for about 15 minutes on the days you don't lift weights.
Walking/Joggin/bicycling long distances does not burn fat half as well as the above exercises.
11. Drink at least i liter of water every day.
12. Drink green tea in the AM
13. Put Ceyenne pepper on your food, or if you don't like it, get capsules and take with meals.
14. Don't drink alcohol and if you smoke, please quit! You just can't be healthy and smoke at the same time. I quit 3 years ago after 38 years. If I can do it so can you. I used the patch.
This is what is working (finally) for me, after a lifetime of crazy diets and thousands spent on weight loss products.