Top 100 Eat Less Quotes
#1. I follow my own advice: eat less, move more, eat lots of fruits, vegetables, and grains, and don't eat too much junk food. It leaves plenty of flexibility for eating an occasional junk food.
Marion Nestle
#2. We should eat less meat - all of us - and we should use less leather. I mean, that's reality.
Jochen Zeitz
#3. As a population, if a large number of people make even small moves to eat less meat and more plant-based foods, the livestock industry will shrink. Over time, farmers will find other crops to support their livelihoods. Through such collective awakening we can make a difference in our world.
Nhat Hanh
#4. I am not a vegetarian. I subscribe to my own mantra: eat less, move more, eat plenty of fruits and vegetables, don't eat too much junk food, and enjoy what you eat. Or, to summarise: eat less, eat better, move more, and get political.
Marion Nestle
#5. Plenty of people are taught that the magic bullet of weight loss is to simply "eat less and move more." Worse, many people believe that exercise, an incredibly enjoyable and healthful behavior, must be taken to unenjoyable extremes if weight is a concern.
Yoni Freedhoff
#7. I don't like talking about which bits I like or don't like about my body. Everybody has something they're not happy with, and my only advice would be, 'Do something about it - exercise or eat less, but don't do nothing!' Find ways to enhance the good bits and camouflage the bad bits.
Twiggy
#8. You must teach yourself how to eat less, but with discernment, insofar as your work allows. The measure of temperance should be such that after lunch you want to pray.
Silouan The Athonite
#9. The way to lose weight is to eat less, so I ate a lot less for a month and lost a lot of weight pretty quickly.
Malcolm Turnbull
#10. So what's the secret to staying together?" I asked her. "Be nice?" she offered. I laughed, but that may be it, the way a secret to losing weight is to eat less. Be nice. Don't leave. That's all.
Ada Calhoun
#11. I've never deprived myself of anything. I've always thought if you need to lose weight, carry on eating what you like, just eat less. I don't agree with doing without pasta or bread; it's too harsh.
Donna Air
#12. There's much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat less, and because numbness encourages laziness, you do fewer things, good or bad, and the world's probably a better place for it.
Douglas Coupland
#13. Eat less, move more, eat lots of fruits and vegetables, go easy on junk foods.
Marion Nestle
#14. I never really ate that bad, I just ate too much. It wasn't like I had to switch to whole wheat bread or something like that. I really just had to eat less of what I was eating, and I had to exercise more.
Patrick Stump
#17. Eat less than you think you want, eat with your intelligence, not your stomach. Never get up from the table with an inward, silent apology for being a pig.
Coco Chanel
#18. Since I've retired, I eat less, weigh less, train less and care less.
Ray Mancini
#20. We all know the secret of dieting - eat better, eat less, exercise more - it's the application that's challenging.
Gretchen Rubin
#21. The world's flattery and hypocrisy is a sweet morsel:
eat less of it, for it is full of fire.
Its fire is hidden while its taste is manifest,
but its smoke becomes visible in the end.
Rumi
#22. This evidence is overwhelming at this point. You eat more plants, you eat less other stuff, you live longer.
Mark Bittman
#23. The key dietary messages are stunningly simple: Eat less, move more, eat more fruits and vegetables, and don't eat too much junk food. It's no more complicated than that.
Marion Nestle
#24. Easy. You want Americans to eat less? I have the diet for you. Cook it yourself. Eat anything you want - just as long as you're willing to cook it yourself.
Michael Pollan
#25. Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.
Oscar Wilde
#26. In Ramadan, you should eat less and think more.
Tariq Ramadan
#27. Thirty ways to shape up for summer. Number one: eat less. Number two: exercise more. Number three: what was I talking about again? I'm so hungry.
Maria Bamford
#28. Every day: Wear sunblock.
Cover your gray.
Do not go insane.
Eat less fats and sugars.
Do more sit-ups.
Don't start forgetting stuff.
Trim the hair in your ears.
Take calcium.
Moisturize. Every day.
Freeze in time to stay in one place forever.
Do not get frigging old.
Chuck Palahniuk
#29. You tighten your belt when you eat less. Your belt around your belly can get smaller when you buy less food. When you eat less... you spend less money. Tighten your belt = Spend less money.
Elliot Carruthers
#30. Stop short of your appetite; eat less than you are able.
Ovid
#31. Never eat less than four hours before boxing. Then eat only lightly.
Gene Tunney
#32. Keeping accounts, sir, is of no use when a man is spending his own money, and has nobody to whom he is to account. You won't eat less beef today because you have written down what it cost yesterday.
Samuel Johnson
#33. Whatever the reason for any one individual's tendency to gain weight, the only way to lose the weight is to eat less and exercise more.
Robin Marantz Henig
#34. The only way you get that fat off is to eat less and exercise more.
Jack LaLanne
#35. Fear less, hope more;
eat less, chew more;
whine less, breathe more;
talk less, say more;
hate less, love more;
and all good things are yours.
Swedish Proverb
#36. I hate to say it, but the older you get, you really do have to cut down on the amount you eat. Less food and less portions.
Jackee Harry
#37. I'm a vegetarian, and I long for people to eat less meat, but the thing to do is not to go, 'Eat! Less! Meat!' It's to say, 'I am fit as a flea and I'm 63, I haven't eaten meat for 40 years, and I never get diseases, I'm never ill, and I'm full of energy. So how's about that?'
Joanna Lumley
#40. BASICS OF DIET AND HEALTH The basic principles of good diets are so simple that I can summarize them in just ten words: eat less, move more, eat lots of fruits and vegetables. For additional clarification, a five-word modifier helps: go easy on junk foods.
Marion Nestle
#41. To speak less is wisdom, to eat less is healthy, and to mingle less with te people is safe and serene.
Umar
#43. If I could live my life over again, there is one thing I would change. I would want to be able to eat less.
Luciano Pavarotti
#44. Persons drinking coffee, as a general rule, eat less, though coffee, and also tea, have little direct food value; but they retard the waste of the tissues, and so take the place of food.
Maria Parloa
#45. In theory, I stick to how I could eat if I lived a thousand years ago. I take processed foods off the menu, and stick to things I could hunt or gather, with more fruits, vegetables, and nuts - and less meat.
Parker Young
#46. You must read a lot."
"More than my friends think I should, but less than I'd like. Given the choice, I'd rather read than eat, sleep, or breathe.
J. Scott Savage
#47. Think Positively.
Network well.
Eat healthy.
Work Smart.
Stay Strong.
Build faith.
Worry less.
Read more.
Be happy.
Volunteer freely.
Relax often.
Love always.
Live eternally
and you will see doors open to your favor.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
#48. If you eat one less candy bar or donut a day, you're doing your body some good.
Louise Hay
#49. Eating smart is all about having an awareness of your body. The most obvious way to do that is by seeing it. So when you're trying to lose weight, spend more time wearing less. I don't think I could eat a plate of nachos naked - could you?
Marisa Miller
#50. The magazine, the daytime show, we've always tried to write affordable, accessible. Those are key words for us, and I do mean us, a huge staff of people at the magazine who love to cook affordable, friendly food that helps families eat better for less.
Rachael Ray
#51. Fortunately the Italian people has not yet accustomed itself to eat many times a day, and possessing a modest level of living, it feels deficiency and suffering less.
Benito Mussolini
#52. But if sedentary behavior makes us fat and physical activity prevents it, shouldn't the "exercise explosion" and the "new fitness revolution" have launched and epidemic of leanness rather than coinciding with an epidemic of obesity?
Gary Taubes
#53. Ordinary people have an extremely important role to play in fighting climate change. Not only can you make your home more energy efficient, drive less, and eat more local food - you can also tell your leaders to take climate action.
Frances Beinecke
#54. For we would no longer need any reminding that however we choose to feed ourselves, we eat by the grace of nature, not industry, and what we're eating is never anything more or less than the body of the world.
Michael Pollan
#55. People used to think that more population was bad for growth. In this view, people are stomachs - they eat, leaving less for everyone else. But once we realize the importance of ideas in the economy, people become brain - they innovate, creating more for everyone else.
Alex Tabarrok
#56. By the way, the next time you get your cholesterol checked, make a note of the season. Because sunlight converts cholesterol to vitamin D, cholesterol levels can be higher in winter months, when we continue to make and eat cholesterol but there's less sunlight available to convert it.
Sharon Moalem
#57. People who start habitually exercising tend on average to eat better. They also tend to use their credit cards less and procrastinate less.
Charles Duhigg
#58. If the whole world went vegan, there would be less war. How you eat determines your mood and your outlook on life.
Alexandra Paul
#59. People can try to eat the correct things, take the correct amount of exercise, worry less and so forth. But in the end fate or destiny is seen as taking its toll. People die, to use a commonly used phrase, 'when their number's up'.
Peter Dickens
#60. The food you eat either makes you more healthy or less healthy. Those are your options.
Melissa Hartwig
#61. He who would eat much must eat little, for by eating less he will live longer, and so be able to eat more.
Luigi Cornaro
#62. I certainly feel that the time is not far distant when a knowledge of the principles of diet will be an essential part of one's education. Then mankind will eat to live, be able to do better mental and physical work and disease will be less frequent.
Fannie Farmer
#63. Life is a shit sandwich. The more bread you've got, the less shit you eat.
Salman Rushdie
#65. The instinct to worship is hardly less strong than the instinct to eat.
Dorothy Thompson
#66. The way to make the world a better place, through your eating, is simply to eat a bit less meat. Local is sometimes good, sometimes bad. But even when it's good, its environmental impact is relatively small compared to other possible improvements.
Tyler Cowen
#67. I find more people want to eat a little less. My generation, we're all watching our figures. They want to go to the bar and eat a few snacks, have a couple of cocktails or glasses of wine, and go home. People don't sit down at the table and have a whole three or four courses.
Todd English
#68. If we want to consider the sanctity of life in deciding what to eat, the choice is clear. Eating a plant based diet causes less harm, to ourselves, to the other animals, to the planet.
Sharon Gannon
#69. [I]t seems that the Cannibals of Europe are going to eat one another again. A war between Russia and Turkey is like the battle of the kite and snake; whichever destroys the other, leaves a destroyer the less for the world.
Thomas Jefferson
#70. In general, the more food we eat in its natural state - without additives - and the less it is refined, the healthier it will be for us. Food can affect the mind, and deficiencies of certain elements in the body can promote mental depression.
Ezra Taft Benson
#71. That's the hard part of overdosing on cherries-you have all the pits to tell you exactly how many you ate. Not more or less. Exactly. One-seed fruits really bother me for that reason. That's why I'd always rather eat raisins than prunes. Prune pits are even more imposing than cherry pits.
Andy Warhol
#72. I thought you'd be interested in these things as a government man. Ain't you mixed up in the prices of things we eat or something? Ain't that it? Making them more costly or something. Making the grits cost more and the grunts less?
Ernest Hemingway,
#73. Mabry Muscat looked pleadingly at Mallow, and she could not understand why they all obeyed him -- except that of course the King could eat them, and of course he was King, and did not people everywhere do more or less as they were told when someone with a crown did the telling?
Catherynne M Valente
#74. Had the crow only fed without cawing she would have had more to eat, and much less of strife and envy to contend with. [To noise abroad our success is to invite envy and competition.]
Horace
#75. Chew food thoroughly Eat slowly, chew (predigests food), and put your fork down between bites. This helps you consume less food as you give your stomach enough time to signal your brain that you are full, without woofing down your food and then feeling terrible and uncomfortable.
Anonymous
#76. Steakhouses serve these big steaks. The first piece is hot, and the last piece is cold. The way I like to eat is to try three or four cuts of meat. People should actually be eating less meat, and the meat they eat should be special.
Jose Andres
#77. Well, that's what the consumer wants, and we're not putting a gun to their head to eat it. That's what they want. If we give them less, they'll buy less, and the competitor will get our market. So you're sort of trapped.
Michael Moss
#78. Life is like a shit sandwich, the more bread you have the less shit you have to eat.
Gary Jonathan Janis
#79. Communism is a form of society where the less people have to eat, the more they have to swallow.
Evan Esar
#80. Life's short. Eat dessert first, work less and vacation MORE!!
Lea Mishell
#81. Eating everything you want is not that much fun. When you live a life with no boundaries, there's less joy. If you can eat anything you want to, what's the fun in eating anything you want to?
Tom Hanks
#82. when you only eat natural foods, you are less likely to become addicted to sugar or fat. And because you won't be prone to sugar or fat addictions, it will be very hard to eat extra calories.
Walter James Brown
#83. I would say some of the food I talk about that I really enjoy, like cake and bacon, I eat a lot less than I portray in my act. But that stuff that I dislike, it's pretty sincere.
Jim Gaffigan
#84. Those less fortunate eat dried fish while the truly destitute fight with the spiny shells of crabs or lobsters. Decades later, my father will find it incomprehensible that Americans crave what in his childhood was considered repugnant fare.
Nayomi Munaweera
#85. The daily activity that contributes most to happiness is having dinner with friends. The daily activity that detracts most from happiness is commuting. Eat more. Commute less.
David Brooks
#86. Remember that the plant wants to eat you," the groundskeeper said. "It's not going to let you get away. Don't fight it. Let yourself be eaten." "Don't take this the wrong way, but I'm finding your advice to be less than one hundred percent helpful,
John Scalzi
#87. That's right, Potter," Noah nodded, seeing James' untouched plate. "The less you eat, the less you'll have to throw up when you're in the air. Of course, some of us see a little well-aimed sick as a great defensive technique. You've had your f irst broom lesson with Professor Ridcully, right?
G. Norman Lippert
#88. Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.
Samuel Butler
#89. I am for the animals, I couldn't care less about your need to eat animals, wear them, shoot them or exploit them. Too bad if you consider it suffering to let all that self-centered and traditional bullshit stop you from having the will to help the animals..
Rikki Rockett
#90. The next time you say 'Life isn't fair' remember that 40% of the world lives on less than $2/day and does not eat every day. How does your 'not fair' compare to theirs? - Tom Cunningham
Tom Cunningham
#91. The Gibbelins eat, as is well known, nothing less good than man.
Lord Dunsany
#92. I do profess to be no less than I seem; to serve him truly that will put me in trust: to love him that is honest; to converse with him that is wise, and says little; to fear judgment; to fight when I cannot choose; and to eat no fish.
William Shakespeare
#93. The exposure from 'Iron Chef' has been helpful, but at the end of the day your product and your service determine whether you get customers or not. If people decide to eat out less during a recession, the first restaurants that they will cut out are the ones that don't do a great job.
Michael Symon
#94. Survival of all or none.
One raindrop raises the sea.
Weapons are enemies even to their owners.
Give more, take less.
Others first, self last.
Observe, listen, and learn.
Do one thing at a time.
Sing every day.
Exercise imagination.
Eat to live, don't live to eat.
James Gurney
#95. If people eat healthy food, they will save enough to compensate for the food price being healthier and spending less on healthcare.
Michael Pollan
#96. Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. That, more or less, is the short answer to the supposedly incredibly complicated and confusing question of what we humans should eat in order to be maximally healthy.
Michael Pollan
#97. That she cried over the loss of a dog whose big claim to fame was that he could eat the crotch out of a pair of clean underpants in less than a minute?
Sarah-Kate Lynch
#98. Please, try to eat a bit less meat, a bit more veggies from today. Let it become a habit gradually until not to eat meat anymore. Then, observe the changing of the body and spirit after eating veggies, fruits and grains ?
Gautama Buddha
#99. Women seem to think they go on diets in order to feel happier, but I know from experience that this isn't true. In fact, I can safely say that the less women eat, the grumpier they get.
Martin Pistorius
#100. Not everyone can afford to eat well in America, which is a literal shame, but most of us can: Americans spend less than 10 percent of their income on food, less than the citizens of any other nation.
Michael Pollan
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