Obesity is one of the major health problems facing the world today. Why? People are on the whole eating poorly and are not active enough. The result is increasing levels of obesity on a global scale.
What to do about it?
For the individual, the simple but difficult answer is improve eating patterns (not just focus on the latest miracle diet) and get regular fat burning exercise. One of the problems is that there is so much information available on loosing fat and unfortunately it is often contradictory.
Fat Loss Nutrition
In relation to nutrition I recommend two systems, John Berardi’s Precision Nutrition and Mike Roussell’s Naked Nutrition. Both these systems are based on changing your eating habits and are not short term diets. The general eating plan of both authors is very similar and both have had great success in the real world with transforming the bodies of their clients. General guidelines with both systems include eating at least 5 times a day, very little in the way of starchy carbs, eating lean protein and fruits and vegetables at every meal and drinking water not calorie dense drinks.
Fat Loss Training
When it comes to training, the Turbulence Training system by Craig Ballantyne is very 
good. I like the fact that Turbulence Training includes bodyweight and equipment based training. This means no excuses, you can work out anytime and pretty well anywhere. Craig has put together a easy to implement fat loss training solution with incremental increases in training intensity as you get fitter and leaner.
Fat Loss Programs
If you want to fast track your fat loss with a combined training and nutrition program, there are two programs that I like. The first is Warp Speed Fat Loss by Mike Roussell and Alwyn Cosgrove and the second is the 10/10 Transformation by Chad Waterbury. Warp Speed Fat Loss is a 28 day program which is designed to strip bodyfat very quickly. Think of a 12 week body transformation done in 4 weeks. The goal of the 10/10 Transformation on the other hand is to loose 10lb of fat and gain 10lb of muscle over a 12 week period. This results in an impressive change in lean muscle mass and makes a serious improvement in how you look.
OK, now it is time to actually do something more than read. Decide on an eating and training regime and put the system into practice.