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.

Once a day, take some 'Beach Time.'

In America, you look at food as bad and guilty. In France, we love food and we enjoy food; food is pleasure.

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.

There is no lasting glory in rapid weight loss.

I love my kitchen. For Manhattan, I have a rather decent-size kitchen, and it has an opening that gives out to the dining room, which has a window with a view of the city and in the distance the Statue of Liberty.

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