I really appreciate Arya Sharma and Yoni Freedhoff, two Canadian doctors who work with compassion and realism in weight management. Dr. Sharma posted this today: Core Principles of Obesity Management. In my own struggle over the years I get real encouragement--not just pipe dreams--from this. I've achieved some of these aims, briefly had some of them, and look to them again as I manage this thing.
(I'm finishing up an intense academic year and hope to be posting here again this summer.)