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Why do some people succeed in losing weight while others fail? Why do some people pick themselves up when they fall down while others remain immobilized? Why do some people, like Oprah, achieve fitness and then find themselves backsliding? The answer resides in a quality that I call innergy. Innergy is the place inside us that provides the motivation and will to change our habits....

When I quit the seven-day-a-week job that I had held for 21 years as manager of a retail operation, I decided to lose weight and get fit. In retrospect, I wonder if the stress of that unrelenting schedule contributed significantly to my obesity. Perhaps so, because look at this article about a report that Zofia Zukowska of Georgetown University and her colleagues recently published in the Journal...