Do your research. If you are not making progress, ask a qualified personal trainer to analyze your routine and your goals. Read health and fitness magazines. There's tons of great fitness information out there tailor it to fit you. Identify your weaknesses, then use your brain to outsmart them. Many people avoid their weak points or bad habits, hoping that they can ignore them into oblivion. Instead, take them up as clues to how you can improve. Keep a food and fitness journal for a month. Then analyze it for negative patterns. If you always overeat late at night, try going to a late night movie to get your mind off food. If you tend to fade out on your workouts on weekends, plan some fun exercise with friends to spice up your lagging routine.
Create a fintness network. Integrate the important people in your life into your fitness quest. Get your whole group involed in healthy activities and eating that way they won't be tempting you to fall off the fitness wagon. Instead, you'll all be leading one another toward healthier bodies and minds.