Top 14 Jean Nidetch Quotes
#1. For the first few years after I lost weight, I would feel for my hip bones every morning when I woke up so I would know I wasn't fat. It was like pinching myself so I'd know I wasn't dreaming.
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#2. You take away the handicap of obesity, and this person becomes someone else. Take a jolly fat man for instance. You talk to him, and his heart is breaking. He wants to be thin.
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#3. Weight loss can change your whole character. That always amazed me: Shedding pounds does change your personality. It changes your philosophy of life because you recognize that you are capable of using your mind to change your body.
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#4. I'm sure that my compulsive eating habits began when I was a baby.
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#5. You have to make the decision to lose weight in your head, not your stomach.
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#6. Compulsive eating is an emotional problem, and we use an emotional approach to its solution.
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#8. We ourselves hold the instrument that makes us fat. I just shake my head when I see someone eating cake and saying, 'Oh, I wish I wasn't heavy.' But they keep eating the cake!
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#9. All you need is one person in a group to be honest, and then slowly, very slowly, everyone else starts telling the truth. That's why our lecturers must be former members of Weight Watchers. They must have lost weight our way.
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#10. If you're going to lose weight, you have to do it by changing your way of thinking about food. It cannot be the highlight of your life.
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#11. It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny.
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#12. Food is not your remedy for problems. Food is not going to change your life. If you are lonely, food is not going to be your company. If you are sad, food is not going to give you solace.
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#13. You can do anything you want to. Follow your dreams; because if you say you can't do it, you'll spend the rest of your life proving it.
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#14. I was fat, so I have the right to tell other fat people not only that they should lose weight, but also that they must lose weight because I was fat, and I lost weight, and I saw the difference.
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