What's a comfortable weight?

• It's a weight at which you feel pretty good about yourself, given where you've been. (Yes, you'd like to weigh 120, but since you've been at 180 for a long time, could you live with yourself at 140 or 150?)
• It's a weight that you don't have to starve and exercise fanatically to maintain. (If you got to 125, would you really want to live that way to stay there?)
• It's a weight at which you have no medical problems caused by your weight. In fact, studies show that losing just 5 to 10 percent of your weight - 10 to 20 pounds for a 200 pound person - can make a big difference in your health.