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I'm not saying it's easy, discipline is as tough as you just described. I run every other day for at least 30 minutes, and I try to eat healthy.

I have weighed more, and i have weighed less. Not morbidly obese, but my doctor would prefer I dropped 20. I have found stress is a factor.

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Try spending some time carefully defining "eat healthy." I know plenty of people that are skinny and don't really have any discipline about what they eat which flies in the face of "fat people are just lazy." Skinny people are lazy too! I think they have something different in their genes that lets them handle a modern diet better than I do. So I simply don't eat a modern diet -- voila, weight lost. The last 10 pounds came off without counting a single calorie and eating as much as I wanted. Not joking.

(Friendly HN advice: if you want to lose weight, have a read of Liam Rosen's guide[1], I personally recommend it. Running isn't the most effective way to do it.)

http://www.liamrosen.com/fitness.html

This guide is the most concise and bginner friendly introduction to an active lifestyle I have seen yet... I second the recommendation... additionally (sad as it is) I think a lot of "professionals" would also benefit from reading it.

I hope that if you eat the right things, it isn't a matter of discipline. As Taubes writes in his book, you can eat carbs indefinitely, but eating arbitrary amounts of fat and proteine is much harder - at some point the body says no.

Carbs are supposedly "habit forming", they make you crave more carbs sooner.

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