Taking care of your mental and physical health is just as important as any career move or responsibility.

If you believe you can shed pounds quickly by force of will and deprivation, you will in all likelihood not only regain the ones you lost, but add a few more besides.

People are unhappy when they are on diets, because it's 'don't do this, don't do that, do this, do that.

I am a believer in change peu a` peu (little by little) since drastic changes, including lots of changes made all at once, are often the sort of modifications that don't stick.

I'm not a great consumer. I always ask myself, 'Do I really need that piece?' I have friends who have 300 pairs of shoes; how would you leave the house in the morning?

Of course there are fat French women. There are fat people everywhere.

I cannot live without flowers everywhere. I grew up having a big garden, the size of a city block, in Rombas.