Dear Carolyn: My girlfriend of two years could stand to lose about 20 pounds ... But I’m not sure I want to be married to someone who puts on 10 pounds every two years and then sits around ...

Instead of fixating on an exact number of pounds you need to lose, (say, 20…), start with a goal of losing five percent of your current body weight and see how your body responds, Mozkovitz says.

When my 6-year-old bonus daughter overheard me talking about losing weight, her response wasn't what I expected.

I didn’t think the program would help me lose weight, but the biggest change ... By December, I’d lost about 20 pounds. After I went back to the gym, I discovered a new love: Hyrox races.