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In my experience, successful dieting is not a matter of willpower. You do what you want to do. If you believe that the benefits of losing weight, even time-discounted, will be greater than the benefits of having food now, you will lose weight.
So the two things you can do to lose weight are:
The trick comes when you have a metabolism that means the benefits of having food now are very, very high - I've met a number of people who deal with all sorts of dizziness, clouded thinking, migraines, etc. if they lose weight more than very, very slowly. For most of them, there are dietary adjustments that can be made to lose weight faster, without suffering through that - thus far it's generally been allergies or low blood sugar levels causing issues. (In the latter case, eating small meals regularly tends to help a lot; a lot of people diet by eating less frequently instead of smaller portions)
I'm supposed to do this anyway: it helps with irritable bowel syndrome, which is supposedly what I have since I don't have celiac apparently. If I go for more than 3-4 hours without eating (unless I just had a massive meal, in which case it takes that long to digest), then I get crabby, I get stomachaches, and eventually I'll start getting dizzy and weak. I had a 5-hour straight shift of teaching lessons at the pool one semester and it was a nightmare...by the end I would be ready to pass out climbing out of the pool.