Adjust your goal weight
“Aim to achieve and improve health and reach a psychologically ‘happy weight,’ not an unrealistic ‘ideal’ weight that may be impossible to reach for most.”
—Dr. Jaideep Behari, associate professor of medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
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