You reap a lot of benefit from a moderate weight loss of 10 percent. It's a wonderful message. You don't have to reach some ideal weight to be healthy and happy.

I would have expected that it would have required a larger weight loss for people to be able to experience these improvements.

Improvements in the quality of sexual life were directly related to weight loss and seemed to reach their maximum at about 12 percent weight loss.

There is no magic pill for weight loss.

Weight doesn't matter as long as you're happy with yourself.

[So, to lose the weight, she avoided faddy diets and devised a balanced eating plan.] I was careful not to lose loads of weight quickly because I didn't want to put it all back on again, ... I decided not to give myself a hard time, so I just ate healthily.