Diets Suck but are sometimes needed.

I agree with amethystrse: train yourself to eat healthier and in reasonable portions, and your body will take care of itself. I used to be 30 pounds overweight (or, to be more accurate, I was carrying 30 pounds of fat), so I started to follow the Weightwatchers plan. However, I found that I was always hungry, even if I'd just eaten. I found that this might have been because WW has a lot of "cheats": drink diet soda instead of regular soda, etc. I started reading books in the Abs Diet series, which taught me how to make healthier choices by not just reading the nutritional values on food labels, but also the actual ingredients (stay away from high fructose corn syrup!) Now, whenever I'm hungry, I eat - but only healthy foods. I eat three meals a day plus three or four snacks, so I'm pretty much eating every two or three hours. That helps me not to feel hungry throughout the day. It takes practice to learn what works for you, but whatever that is will also require disciplin

A person shouldn't look at their size to determine if they can be happy. It's not fair. And no, I don't think the majority of women out there are happy with their weight. I remember when I was really tiny. I thought I was fat when really there was very little fat on me. As for dieting...don't restrict yourself too much right off the bat. Instead of looking at it as a diet look at it as training yourself to eat healthier. If the vast majority of the food you're eating is healthy (and in healthy portions) then you should be fine.