Best 119 quotes in «dieting quotes» category

I've decided that perhaps I'm bulimic and just keep forgetting to purge.

Ive learned from dieting and not dieting that literally the thing that works best for me is that if I think of it, I better go ahead and have it.

Moderation is actually the flip side of dieting, that is, imposed deprivation.

I was member of the Diet as long as it existed, until May 1933.

My advice if you insist on slimming: Eat as much as you like - just don't swallow it.

My ideal weight is moobless.

My weight always fluctuates by 10 pounds. After trying Atkins and doing Nutrisystem a few times, now I’m just focused on maintaining a healthy lifestyle rather than dieting.

Old age is somewhat like dieting. Every day there is less of us to be observed.

My wife is a light eater. As soon as it's light, she starts to eat.

Never measure yourself against magazine covers. Every 'perfect' body you see in a bikini is a result of weeks of dieting and exercise. And airbrushing.

Pasta doesn't make you fat. How much pasta you eat makes you fat.

Once you have to start counting calories, it takes away from the joy of eating.

The trouble with dieting is that a pound of will power takes off only an ounce of weight.

Physical fitness is in. I recently had a physical fit myself.

That's life. The older you get, the tougher it is to score.

The Diet Mentality has come about because there is agreement in our society that the only way to lose weight is by dieting. But dieting produces absolutely no permanent, positive results. In fact, it makes you feel worse about yourself and probably does more damage than good to your health.

The first thing you lose on a diet is brain mass.

The good thing about being pregnant is that I don't have to worry about sucking it in or dieting!

The older you get, the tougher it is to lose weight, because by then your body and your fat are really good friends.

The biggest seller is cookbooks and the second is diet books - how not to eat what you've just learned how to cook.

the first thing I did when I made the decision to kill myself was to stop dieting. Let them dig a wider hole.

The storm hit with all the fury of a woman who’d been dieting for six months, only to discover she’d gained four pounds.

What's wrong with extreme dieting and hard-core fitness plans is that they don't take into account the rest of your life.

Until I am ready to lose weight, I cannot see how fat I am.

We've been so disconnected agriculturally and culturally from food. We spend more time on dieting than on cooking.

When I hit my thirties, that's when I calmed down and I wasn't so tough on myself. I wasn't doing the yo-yo dieting any more. I gave myself a break. I think that, if you're more accepting of yourself, you're more free and open and can just allow more people in.

Your diet is a bank account. Good food choices are good investments.

You can't have a world where 50 percent of the people are dieting and 50 percent of the people are starving if you want stability.

Eating healthy is not so much about what you eat, but what you don’t eat.

Being constantly hungry is no life at all.

Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women's history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one.

Eat clean to stay fit, have a burger to stay sane.

A balanced dieT to make you die with a tea, consists of holding two bags of cookies on each hand and a voracious hunger to consume.

Develop a vision, not a goal. Visions are much more powerful. 98% of what’s going on in your brain is subconscious. Developing a vision requires the use of more of your brain than just developing a thought, which suggests we are tapping into subconscious brain power.

Diets don't really work & can be destructive, but if you get healthy overall (mind, body, spirit) then your weight balances naturally.

Eat Chew Live' is not like other diet or weight loss books. There are no programs to follow, menus to cook, or products to buy, this book is about respecting how your body works.

Eating – overeating – saved me. It comforted me when I was at the mercy of grown-ups who didn't know how to give what I needed. Food was something to which I had ready access, and with it I cleverly fashioned a survival mechanism that pulled me back from the edge of insanity. – a young MacGuyver of angst and junk food.

Even if these researchers do see the need to address the problem immediately, though they have obligations and legitimate interests elsewhere, including being funded for other research. With luck, the ideas discussed in Good Calories, Bad Calories may be rigorously tested in the next twenty years. If confirmed, it will be another decade or so after that, at least, before our public health authorities actively change their official explanation for why we get fat, how that leads to illness, and what we have to do to avoid or reverse those fates. As I was told by a professor of nutrition at New York University after on of my lectures, the kind of change I'm advocating could take a lifetime to be accepted.

Free drinks have no carbs.

every session I had no fewer than sixteen girls with “allergies” to dairy and wheat—cheese and bread basically—but also to garlic, eggplant, corn, and nuts. They had cleverly developed “allergies,” I believe, to the foods they had seen their own mothers fearing and loathing as diet fads passed through their homes. I could’ve strangled their mothers for saddling these girls with the idea that food is an enemy—some of them only eight years old and already weird about wanting a piece of bread—and I would’ve liked to bludgeon them, too, for forcing me to participate in their young daughters’ fucked-up relationship with food.

Every weight loss program, no matter how positively it’s packaged, whispers to you that you’re not right. You’re not good enough. You’re unacceptable and you need to be fixed.

Hunger gives flavour to the food.

Getting healthy doesn't have to be a chore. The Five Rivers Journey requires minimal extra effort for the maximum results!

God grant me the serenity to accept my goal weight, the courage to resist anything with more than three hundred calories, and the wisdom to check the fat grams before I open my mouth and insert a fork.

Here’s the truth of the matter: It’s not your fault that you don’t already have the body you want. It’s the weight loss industry’s fault.

I can tell you that if there’s nothing wrong with you except fat it is easy to get thin. You eat and drink the same as always, only half. If you are handed a plate of food, leave half; if you have to help yourself, take half. After a while, if you are a perfectionist, you can consume half of that again … On the question of will-power, if that is a factor, you should think of will-power as something that never exists in the present tense, only in the future and the past. At one moment you have decided to do or refrain from an action and the next moment you have already done or refrained; it is the only way to deal with will-power.

I despair of the term 'clean eating'...it necessarily implies that any other form of eating – and consequently the eater of it – is dirty or impure and thus bad.

I wondered why people ever tried to accomplish anything when attainment of every sort was inbuilt with the forlorn 'Well so-- what's next?

I refuse to let a number dictate my self worth and, besides, I like cake.

It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from someone else's plate.