Instead of setting a goal to lose 10 pounds (or 20 or even 100), set your goal to become healthy and fit.  It’s much more positive.  You will only set yourself up for failure if you fill your head with visions of the horrible deprivation you will have to go through in order to lose weight.  Why not set yourself up for success by deciding to become healthy and fit and then learning how to do it?

Healthy and fit people have learned how to be healthy.  If you want that lifestyle, you will need ...

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Prince William and Kate Middleton leave City Hall in Belfast, Northern Ireland on Tuesday March 8, 2011. (AP Photo)

On Twitter, a handful of people posted comments about Kate Middleton's weight recently.  One said she shouldn't lose any more weight and should serve as a healthy role model to young girls.

WHAT?  Does that mean that we should only have role models for young girls who are appropriately heavy?  Who look like the rest of us?  I thought role models were people we aspire to either...

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