This might be sound very trivial, but enjoying the workout you do is critical to your success at losing weight. It is much harder to be consistent at working out and to work out as intensely as you need to in order to lose weight if you dread the kind of work out you do. Some people love going to the gym and they have no problem running on a treadmill or on the elliptical for half an hour or longer every days, while for others it's an absolute torture.
If you belong to the latter category, you have to figure a different way to work out if you want to achieve meaningful and long-term weight loss results. You might consider taking dancing classes, or enrolling in martial arts class or TRX or even hiring a personal trainer, if that's what will make you look forward to working out rather than feeling like your exercise is some kind of punishment. Ideally, you want to be in a place where you lose track of time while working out, rather than looking at your watch every 2 minutes and waiting for it to be over.
When you enjoy what you, you will naturally do it for a longer period of time and more frequently and both of these factors are critical to your success at losing weight.
