Once you have to start counting calories, it takes away from the joy of eating.

Make treating yourself a priority and always remember your life is happening now. Don't put off all your dreams and pleasures to another day. In any balanced personal definition of success there has to be a powerful element of living life in the present.

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.

Expensive clothes with inappropriate or inexpensive shoes may send an unflattering message.

There is no lasting glory in rapid weight loss.

In #‎ France we have a saying, 'Joie de Vivre,' which actually doesn't exist in the English language. It means looking at your life as something that is to be taken with great pleasure and enjoy it.

I would advocate that chocolate be covered by health insurance, but that is admittedly a very French public policy perspective.