I am guilty. I had a grad student who came to my seminars a few years ago who had been bordering obese. For health reasons she went on a strict diet of some sort (not Atkins) and lost weight very quickly...to me she looked like a deflated balloon and it did not look healthy at all..so I said something to that effect at the time.

Now I have lost 45 lbs myself, but it has a year and a half and I have been going to the gym throughout...I now look better than I have for years, and would like to lose more to be in a better body fat range, but am afraid that at age 63 and no longer having elastic skin, I too will get the deflated balloon look.......

Val