Consistency and discipline are developed by doing actions within your capabilities on an almost daily basis for an extended period of time.
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The amount of knowledge fitness professionals have about eating for weight loss that long time dieters don't is much less then you might think. If you've been trying to lose weight for years, or even decades, you know the mechanics of most “if not all” of the popular diets. Plus, you have hands on experience on how each of the plans you’ve tried to follow have fit into your day-to-day life, which is most important.
Know what screws up everyone’s perception of how weight loss should go? Those magical first few months of starting back on a fitness routine. You know, where you can drop 10-20 lbs of weight a month for the first month or two. This is your body dropping water weight, getting acclimated to the new routine AND losing fat. The problem is we get driven by the drop on the scale.