Losing a Little Makes a Big Difference

Most of the symptoms and complications related to being overweight will disappear when you lose just a little bit of weight. Losing even 5% or 10% of your current weight will affect your health.
As the American Dietetic Association summarizes it: "A review of several randomized, controlled clinical trials found that maintaining a modest weight loss (7 to 10 pounds) reduced the incidence of type 2 diabetes in people at high risk for the disease by a whopping 40 to 60 percent over 3 to 4 years. In another study, losing 15 pounds and maintaining that weight loss for 4 years decreased hypertension risk by 21 to 29 percent in overweight middle-aged and older people."
Don't intimidate yourself by thinking you have a huge amount of weight to lose. Instead, think of losing 8-10 pounds at a time. Just that small amount of weight lost is enough to make you feel much, much better.

Break up your weight-loss goals into small manageable units of pounds to be lost. Concentrate on losing one unit at a time.