When I exercise, I enjoy life more, and I also tend to lose a bit of weight until I (once again) drift back out of patterns of regular exercise for whatever reason (typical culprit: moving house or job, extended bad weather).

Whatever people think about weight and programmes of weight loss, the debate shouldn't allow the marginalisation of the benefits of exercise ... I suspect there are people pursuing sedentary lifestyles out there who don't even know how great it feels to exert yourself physically without a reason, once in a while.

But then, I'm not a fan of "I'm perfect the way I am" thinking. There's clear space between accepting your imperfections and approving of them. Not that I like excessive self-optimisation either. Pursuing particular traits (perceived as a static set) to the exclusion of activities that are irrespectively fulfilling seems unhealthy.