Lose The Weight Quotes

#1. I could take all the cartoons in the tabloid newspapers, but I couldn't take my daughter punching me in the belly and asking why I was so fat. That was my inspiration to lose the weight. And probably the last time anyone hurt my feelings.

Al Sharpton

#2. When I got into the sport I was so fat that my manager said he should send me to boot camp to lose the weight!

Li Na

#3. I have a harder time eating properly than I do exercising. It's easier for me to add an activity than to deny myself something. And when I do lose the weight, I don't like that it makes me feel good about myself. It's not who I am.

Carrie Fisher

#4. And I told her point blank, you've got everything to live for. You've got such talent. You're back singing great, lose the weight. And she went and did it, and look at her now!

David Gest

#5. Once you lose the weight, you're really anxious to eat healthy.

Etta James

#6. I was just so focused on being healthy for my baby during pregnancy, and afterward I was not in a rush to lose the weight. I really wanted to be as healthy as I could. It wasn't about getting my six-pack back. There are more important things in life than a six-pack, I realized.

Marisa Miller

#7. When my marriage broke up ... I had just put on 45 pounds for my 'Shall We Dance?' character. I had to eat 10,000 calories a day just to put on weight while training with Tony Dovolani. I basically stayed in bed for a six-month rotation of depression naps. Dance helped me lose the weight.

Lisa Ann Walter

#8. 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

#9. Love yourself - Do it now! Don't wait until you get well or lose the weight, or get the new job, or the new relationship.

Louise Hay

#10. I didn't want to find out the reality that if I wanted my dream, I had to lose weight. That's a crushing dream for anybody ... to change yourself to get your dream. Nobody should have to do that.

Serinda Swan

#11. It will not surprise you to learn that it is not uncommon for jockeys who struggle with their weight to starve themselves and spend hours in the sauna to lose a few pounds to be able to make a big-race ride.

Tony McCoy

#12. If I could have a Barbie body, which has no cellulite, I totally would. I would like to have a flatter stomach, but that won't happen either. That is never going to happen. No matter how much weight I lose, my stomach, below the belly button, always pooches out.

Holly Madison

#13. The difficult truth is that the basic law of thermodynamics still holds: When we eat more calories than we expend, we gain weight. When we burn more energy through physical activity or exercise than we take in from food and drinks, we lose weight.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#14. The more specific you are about your resolution, the better your chance of sticking with it. Don't just say, "I want to lose weight." Say, "When my arm jiggles, I want it to look less like a pelican's throat-pouch choking down a bass.

Colin Nissan

#15. I pile on the weight when I work. All that location catering's not good for the love handles. I lose a bit when I'm not working, but I love my food and the occasional snifter.

Ray Winstone

#16. I really worshipped Mama Cass a lot. Mama Cass, who was really fat and she didn't lose weight. Yeah, she went on diets but for the most part of her life and the better part of her career she was a big person.

Beth Ditto

#17. You can either go to the gym because you want to lose weight, or you can go to the gym because you like how it makes you feel when you're running.

Craig Finn

#18. I have high blood sugars, and Type 2 diabetes is not going to kill me. But I just have to eat right, and exercise, and lose weight, and watch what I eat, and I will be fine for the rest of my life.

Tom Hanks

#19. I think that expression is so great. So I'll look at someone like Prince, and one reason to lose weight is so I can rock that purple velvet outfit with the white frilly shirt.

Graham Elliot

#20. After my experiences with the 5:2 diet, I wasn't interested in a short-term fix that would fail later. I wanted a way of eating that made me lose weight without feeling deprived.

Kate Christensen

#21. It baffles me that people think that obliterating the past will save them from its consequences, as if throwing away the empty cake plate would help you lose weight.

Timothy B. Tyson

#22. If you eliminate wheat from your diet, you're no longer hungry between meals because you've cut out the appetite stimulant, and consequently you lose weight very quickly. I've seen this with thousands of patients.

William Davis

#23. Ive been told that if I lose weight Id have more work, but I refuse to submit myself to Hollywood standards. To the rest of the world I am slim and I like the way I am.

Liv Tyler

#24. I could stand to lose 10 or 15 pounds, but honestly, I'm happy the way I am. I feel comfortable with it. I'd rather have that extra 10, 15 pounds on me than live a lifestyle of trying to sustain this unattainable weight.

Stephanie Klein

#25. I can't remember a time where I really battled with my body, but I can remember being asked to lose weight and battling with the advice. It hurt me. Especially as my baby fat naturally melted away as I got older.

Rosie Huntington-Whiteley

#26. 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

#27. Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose!

Karl Lagerfeld

#28. Half the world's starving; the other half is trying to lose weight.

Roseanne Barr

#29. The real issue has nothing to do with whether women wear makeup or don't, gain weight or lose it, have surgery or shun it, dress up or down, make our clothing and faces and bodies into works of art or ignore adornment altogether. The real problem is our lack of choice.

Naomi Wolf

#30. To lose weight, spend time at the gym. To appear like you've lost weight, spend time with people who are bigger than you.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#31. 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.

Bob Schwartz

#32. The thing is, when I feel like I have to lose weight, the opposite happens. I remember stuffing loads of chocolate on the plane to the shoot, and I thought, 'Why don't you have the courage to show up in a body that's natural, not overly worked out?'

Geri Halliwell

#33. The biggest mistake people make is to try to lose too much weight too fast.

Mehmet Oz

#34. Trust me, it's the weight of someone else's expectation that's the hardest to lose.

Camille Pagan

#35. You have to make the decision to lose weight in your head, not your stomach.

Jean Nidetch

#36. The record company really pissed me off when they told me to lose weight. I couldn't be bothered with looking a certain way. So I left the business. I don't regret it.

Kim Wilde

#37. There are people that regardless of what it is, if it's something that's stressful, whatever it may be, they don't eat, they lose a lot of weight, a divorce, they get real thin. I'm the opposite.

Janet Jackson

#38. Once I started looking for a record deal, I had a trainer. And the trainer told me that I would never sell a record if I didn't lose weight.

Jill Scott

#39. A man should not love the moon. An ax should not lose weight in his hand. His garden should smell of rotting apples And grow a fair amount of nettles.

Czeslaw Milosz

#40. Half the world is starving n other half is trying 2 lose weight by spending thousands

Tanu B Singh

#41. Number one of the list now was a diet book entitled Eat as much as You Want of the Food You Love and Still Lose Weight. What a great title. The whole book could be blank inside and it would still sell.

Haruki Murakami

#42. The plans to lose weight and change personality kept me aloft for two days, only to collapse around my ears. I realize it was only a complicated form of
denial.

Helen Fielding

#43. I understand a lot of celebrities lose weight because they have the opportunity to get in shape and become healthier, but when you get so polished, you can't tell the story of a blue-collar family anymore.

Cristela Alonzo

#44. I am the only actor who ever had to lose weight to play Orson Welles.

Christian McKay

#45. You're so good at what you do, keep pushing, success is on the table at all times!

Sereda Aleta Dailey

#46. I like having my hair and face done, but I'm not going to lose weight because someone tells me to. I make music to be a musician not to be on the cover of Playboy.

Adele

#47. The best way to lose weight is to close your mouth - something very difficult for a politician. Or watch your food - just watch it, don't eat it.

Ed Koch

#48. The ones who nod in sympathy when their friends talked about street harassment, but whose lived experience involved more shouts of "lose some weight" than cat calls and leers. The

Jennifer Weiner

#49. When I was 20, my husband at the time looked at me said, 'You're fat; go run.' There weren't a lot of tools at the end of the '70s to lose weight. It took me a while to realize what kind of exercise would make me happy and I would look forward to doing. And running became it.

Kim Alexis

#50. The best way to lose weight is to know that you are light.

Alan Cohen

#51. I was this role model for heavy people. But the thing is, I never set out to be a role model at all, and I don't set out to be one now. I won't preach to anyone and tell them how to lose weight. I don't know any better than the next person.

Ricki Lake

#52. You can't keep bearing all the weight. In the end, if you try to save everyone you'll only lose yourself.

Joe Hart

#53. There are women who struggle to GAIN weight who are beautiful. There are women who struggle to LOSE weight who are beautiful. You know who is the most beautiful? Those who learn to love themselves the way they are. You don't need to change for ANYONE.

Teresa Mummert

#54. In a way women are fleshier because of estrogen. It's hard for us to lose weight because when we get super skinny we don't ovulate. Women in camps during the Holocaust didn't menstruate and didn't ovulate. They were starving; they were terrified. Why emulate that condition? It's nonsensical to me.

Erica Jong

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

Margaret Cho

#56. I'd lose weight if I was an actress and had to play a role where you're supposed to be 40 lbs lighter, but weight has nothing to do with my career. Even when I was signing a contract, most of the industry knew if anyone ever dared say lose weight to me, they wouldn't be working with me.

Adele

#57. Somehow I could lose myself in the ocean the same way I could lose myself in a good book. Maybe it was because both involved suspension
a suspension of weight, a suspension of disbelief
a willingness to surrender to something greater than oneself.

Eve Marie Mont

#58. I was told I was fat in the modeling world, and a director on a shoot told me I needed to lose weight. The J-Lo booty wasn't popular then, and I wanted to be the perfect Hollywood girl - tall, blonde and skinny. I couldn't do the 'tall' because I was 5'2, and I couldn't do the skinny, either.

Coco Austin

#59. The sudden death of a partner while expecting a child is so universally understood as awful that I don't think anyone with any other weight to carry is going to get to same kind of sympathy - except perhaps people who lose a child.

Carolyn Hax

#60. At the surface, many people's goals are to lose weight, tone up, feel better, etc. But superficial goals get superficial results that usually fade. Dig a little deeper, and the 'why' is usually unveiled: to be more confident, to be more happy, to feel sexy again.

Brett Hoebel

#61. When I did 'Dancing with the Stars' I did lose an awful lot of weight and I think at the time everybody was sort of alarmed by it. You can eat anything and it is still dropping off you when you are doing that amount of exercise.

Katherine Jenkins

#62. Remember this phrase: Get Paid, Get Laid, Lose Weight because those are the three things people will pay for.

James Altucher

#63. Frequently, visualization is the key to lose weight. Imagine yourself with your desired body, and work for it. At some point in the future, this wish will come true.

David Viscott

#64. Weight-loss drugs are intended to enable patients to lose weight more effectively than diet or exercise alone by: 1. suppressing appetite, 2. increasing feelings of fullness, 3. inhibiting the absorption of fat, or in some cases, 4. increasing the metabolism slightly

N.J. May

#65. I don't know how much I can be bothered to have to lose the baby weight. It's such a pain ... I'm not one of those people for whom it magically drops off.

Kate Winslet

#66. I have been trying to lose weight for the last two-three months and it has gone really well. In the last 6-12 months I have been in the best form in quite a while.

Shane Warne

#67. I have never thought of participating in sports just for the sake of doing it for exercise or as a means to lose weight. And I've never taken up a sport just because it was a social fad. I really enjoy playing. It is a vital part of my life.

Dinah Shore

#68. Feeling overwhelmed by the requirements of your diet Feeling deprived Feeling discouraged when you don't lose weight consistently or lose as much weight as you had hoped Feeling stressed by other life problems

Judith S. Beck

#69. No carbs after lunch is one of the hardest (rules) to follow. But if you follow this rule YOU WILL lose weight

Bob Harper

#70. I got to L.A., and they said I had to lose weight, let my hair grow and buy some dresses. I was nailing auditions with my readings, but they wouldn't hire me because I wasn't putting on the glam. It just didn't occur to me.

Kim Cattrall

#71. And once you are that fat, the 'fuck-it-factor; comes into play. The fuck-it factor means that you know (even the most basic grasp of nutrition) it will take ages to lose your excess weight, so you might as well get an easy lay by sticking half a packet of Hula Hoops into a tub of cheese spread.

Rae Earl

#72. I love the acting process. What I don't like is what's around it. The auditions and being rejected every other day. The look thing. That you have to lose weight, that you have to do Botox.

Julie Delpy

#73. While eating gluten-free may help you lose weight initially because it eliminates baked goods, one has to be smart when choosing replacement options because the gluten-free versions often have the same number of calories.

Marcus Samuelsson

#74. A few years ago, I thought, I'll never make it. I started to go to the doctor to help me lose weight.

Etta James

#75. It seems every year, people make the resolution to exercise and lose weight and get in shape.

Ed Smith

#76. I never - you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.

Karl Lagerfeld

#77. It wasn't like, 'I'ma lose weight and start doing dramas.' I wanted to be healthier, and that was the impetus for wanting to lose weight - it's just about being healthy and feeling good.

Jonah Hill

#78. Ultimately, despite Atkins's wealth of practical knowledge in helping people lose weight and possibly avoid heart disease, he would not get a serious hearing from academic researchers until the twenty-first century.

Nina Teicholz

#79. 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.

Jean Nidetch

#80. I'm just saying that when there is little left to lose, the consequences of one's actions don't carry the same weight ... painful or otherwise.

Amy A. Bartol

#81. When I try to get work in the US all they say is that I need to lose weight - but I bet they never said that to Mae West.

Charlotte Church

#82. There's no quick or magical way to lose weight. You just have to do it the natural way - diet and exercise and stick to it - and be able to do it at your own pace.

Jordin Sparks

#83. I started running around my 30th birthday. I wanted to lose weight; I didn't anticipate the serenity. Being in motion, suddenly my body was busy and so my head could work out some issues I had swept under a carpet of wine and cheese. Good therapy, that's a good run.

Michael Weatherly

#84. You get leafy greens in your body first thing in the morning and you'll lose a lot of weight.

Christopher McDougall

#85. Weight used to be an issue. I was always fat as a child. And everyone used to tell me, 'You've got such a pretty face; why don't you lose some weight?' Over the years I've realised that my body is a certain type, and I have learned to accept it.

Vidya Balan

#86. The truth is, if I were going to lose weight successfully, I would have to think about what I eat constantly. I cannot imagine a life more boring and a more time-consuming obsession than being preoccupied with what I eat.

Mindy Kaling

#87. People think that you can save calories by eating fewer meals a day, but it works just the opposite: the fewer meals you eat, the more counterproductive it becomes to you being able to lose weight.

Ian K. Smith

#88. This is not what anyone wants to hear, just like somebody who wants to lose weight doesn't want to hear 'diet and exercise,' but I think giving yourself time and abstaining from interaction is the only way to get over somebody.

Julie Klausner

#89. When food becomes the enemy, every time we lose the fight we not only gain weight, but lose our self-esteem as well.

Jane Fonda

#90. Exercise is the main thing that helped me lose weight.

Drew Carey

#91. If you are thinking every day, 'I have to get to the gym' and 'I have to lose this weight,' and that's all you think about and you obsess over it, it's not healthy.

Carmen Electra

#92. The illusion never really dissipates that you can lose twenty pounds in one night by cutting out dinner.

Shirley Maclaine

#93. The argument that making contraceptives available to young people would prevent teen pregnancies is ridiculous. That's like offering a cookbook as a cure to people who are trying to lose weight.

Jerry Falwell

#94. People tell me, 'You better lose weight if you want to run for mayor.' I said, 'I got the Chris Christie look.'

John Catsimatidis

#95. It would be far easier to lose weight permanently if replacement parts weren't so handy in the refrigerator.

Hugh Allen

#96. From this moment there would be no question of virtue or morality; for despotism cui ex honesto nulla est spes, wherever it prevails, admits no other master; it no sooner speaks than probity and duty lose their weight and blind obedience is the only virtue which slaves can still practice.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#97. The best way to lose weight is to put the handle of the fridge two inches from the ground.

Dawn French

#98. David Garner, an eating disorder specialist, has explained that the best way to gain weight is to go on a diet to lose weight!

Ellen Frankel

#99. Do not feed your ego and your problems, with your attention ... Slowly, surely, the ego will lose weight, until one fine day it will be nothing but a thin ghost of its former self. You will be able to see right through it, to the divine presence that shines in each of us.

Eknath Easwaran

#100. I don't care if you eat worms and cardboard; if you eat 35% fewer calories, you will lose weight and your cholesterol levels will improve50 in the short run, but that is not to say that worms and cardboard form a healthy diet.

T. Colin Campbell