Quotes About Overweight

#1. Studies suggest that overweight kids are highly likely to become overweight adults and consequently suffer from serious health problems and life-threatening diseases.

Mark Sisson

#2. We are skinny; this is our work. There are lots of overweight people working in offices, but I'm not going to say, 'This girl is fat; she can't work in an office.'

Valentina Zelyaeva

#3. The label of liberalism is hardly a sentence to public ignominy: otherwise Bruce Springsteen would still be rehabilitating used Cadillacs in Asbury Park and Jane Fonda, for all we know, would be just another overweight housewife.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#4. And the daughter. Bit of a social failure. Well, that's putting it delicately. Quite overweight. Collects the cats, if you know what I mean.

Donna Tartt

#5. People have interpretations of what you're supposed to be like. If you're unattractive and overweight, you must have a great personality. If you're attractive, then you must not be the nicest person. People are always taken aback that I'm easygoing but not necessarily stupid.

Mila Kunis

#6. It's true that Apollo 10's lander was overweight. Late in the craft's development, it became clear that its ballooning weight was endangering the whole mission.

Henry Spencer

#7. He was at least twenty pounds overweight, and was pushing for more. As a bachelor, he couldn't cook, and ended up having most of his meals in bars. Sometimes he even ate.

Christopher I. Warner

#8. On the other hand it was bad manners to look a gift horse in the mouth. Even if you're getting it from an overweight cracker in a fringe shirt.

Ilona Andrews

#9. Very often, overweight children have parents who are struggling with weight issues.

Lisa Ling

#10. There's not one food that causes diabetes. What causes Type II diabetes is being overweight ... I've just come to grips, over the past four or five months, with my diabetes.

Paula Deen

#11. My parents both had Oxford degrees, they read important books, spoke foreign languages, drank real coffee and went to museums for pleasure. People like that don't have fat kids: they were cut out to be winners and winners don't have children who are overweight.

Arabella Weir

#12. Overweight people have chosen food over appearance. When a fat person talks about a great place to get a burger, I lean in. They know.

Jim Gaffigan

#13. Much as I try to disguise myself, there is never a time when I'm not aware of being overweight.

Daphne Merkin

#14. It's not just being overweight that's dangerous. Stress is dangerous.

Carnie Wilson

#15. Adult obesity and overweight statistics have increased by about 50 percent since the Dietary Goals were announced. [by the federal government, in 1977] That bears repeating: a 50 percent increase in obesity/overweight correlated with a 10 percent decrease in fat content in the diet.

Larry McCleary

#16. I'm not skinny for the wrong reasons. It's not because I'm bulimic or anorexic or doing drugs. Compared to a lot of actresses my age, I'm actually overweight.

Lindsay Lohan

#17. You're lucky you had that when you were 20. I sure didn't. I was overweight, and I had acne.

Carly Simon

#18. There are varied experiences of overweight women throughout the country; there's not just one experience.

Sarah Baker

#19. I'm not overweight, but I'm not in shape at all. I do not work out.

Lea Thompson

#20. If I weren't acting, I would own my own chocolate shop in Paris. I would be a nice, overweight person that makes chocolate all day long.

Emma Bell

#21. I'm thirteen years old, and I'm somewhat overweight. Meaning: I'm dead and fat. Meaning: I'm a piggy-pig-pig, oink-oink, real porker. Just ask my mom. I'm thirteen and fat - and I will stay this way forever. And yes, I know the word ulcerate. I'm dead, not illiterate.

Chuck Palahniuk

#22. People are so funny. There's no winning with commenters or anonymous people. They'd be rude that I was overweight, and now they're rude that I'm healthy.

Jonah Hill

#23. Everything - and I mean everything - fucking hurts. I feel as if I've been trampled. By elephants. Carrying wrestlers. Overweight wrestlers.

Ruby Dixon

#24. People with more money than time buy $3,000 road racing bicycles with ultralight carbon frames to shave two pounds off the bike, regardless of the fact that they themselves are probably at least 10 pounds overweight.

Jacob Lund Fisker

#25. I'd still trust an overly fat person over a skinny one any day. The best adviser would have a very specific body type: pudgy or just a little overweight. This makes it clear they have a somewhat unhealthy relationship with food, but not a clinical problem. They

Jim Gaffigan

#26. I arrived in Hollywood twenty pounds overweight and as strong as an ox.

Gene Kelly

#27. I had a great childhood, a very close-knit family. We were all overweight, and we had good times eating together, I imagine.

Stephen Furst

#28. Few people actually read. Instead, everyone likes pretending they read. If we spent as much time reading as we say we do, we'd be grossly overweight and depressed.

Dan Wilbur

#29. Being overweight and obesity are major risk factors for many chronic diseases for South Dakotans of all ages. When people are overweight or obese, they have more health problems and more serious health problems, in addition to higher health care costs.

Mike Rounds

#30. Out of one pocket we pay billions of our tax dollars to support the production of expensive, disease-causing foods. Out of the other pocket, we pay medical bills that are too high because our overweight population consumes too much of these rich, disease-causing foods.

Joel Fuhrman

#31. As far as we know, there is no corresponding taste among women for erotica featuring multiple overweight middle-aged ladies with cheap tattoos, bad haircuts, and black socks having sex with one hot guy. Go figure.

Christopher Ryan

#32. I am 5ft 6in and weigh about 11 stone - about a stone overweight, but that's because of my brain.

Paul Daniels

#33. I like being small - I've known so many women with big boobs who feel overweight or end up with back problems.

Eva Longoria

#34. Wow" is all I can say. I'm amazed. It never occurred to me to change the clothes to fit me. I always thought it had to be the other way around. And it never occurred to me that people who aren't overweight could have trouble with the off the rack sizes.

K.A. Barson

#35. Most of your life as an actor in Hollywood, either an actress or an actor, you have to look - you have to work out, you have to look - you rarely get to play someone who's just human, who's real, who is overweight, even not grossly overweight, but who has aspects of just everyday life.

Kim Cattrall

#36. We believe that people moving their portfolios to an overweight in bonds will be disappointed over the long-term and will significantly underperform an asset allocation that over-weights equities.

James O'Shaughnessy

#37. It's a very specific body. Even great reviews will be like: chubby, portly, overweight ... Sometimes I'm like, 'Ugh, how did I make myself the guinea pig for this?' But on the other hand, hating my body has not been my cross to bear in this life. Which I feel very lucky about.

Lena Dunham

#38. Although I have never been 100 lbs overweight, I know the effects of not feeling comfortable in my own skin.

Kim Lyons

#39. even though doctors know better than anyone the importance of exercise and diet, 44 percent of them are overweight.1

Shawn Achor

#40. In Nam, the jungle's heat was heavy, and like a spoiled overweight child, it insisted on being carried everywhere.

Billy O'Connor

#41. When you gain weight, for every pound that you gain, it adds four pounds of stress on your knees. So if you gain five pounds, you've got 20 pounds of stress on your knees. So that's why I'm extremely careful with my portions and my workout, because I can't be overweight.

Richard Simmons

#42. [On being overweight:] If I tried to haul ass, I would have to make two trips.

Dolly Parton

#43. Yes - I am usually overweight. I have had to be interested in diet because of being diabetic for 30 years and having kidney failure.

Sue Townsend

#44. I was 19 when my father died from a heart attack. He was a 55-year-old college professor and had led what was by all appearances a risk-free life. But he was overweight, and heart disease runs in our family.

Alex Honnold

#45. Also, I sort of let my appearance go, to the point where I was maybe ten to seventy pounds overweight ...

Matthew Quick

#46. In addition to helping you find the desire to conquer your unhealthy cravings, it also holds the key to something very significant for most of us women - spiritual malnutrition. We feel overweight physically but underweight spiritually.

Lysa TerKeurst

#47. I've talked to so many people, men and women alike, that get overweight and their self-esteem just goes in the tank. They think they're judged. They think they're unattractive.

Phil McGraw

#48. Compared to my talents, Whoopi Goldberg is like one of those fake plastic Buddhas you get at dollar stores. I mean really, I fail to see the humor in an overweight negro woman with dreadlocks, no eyebrows, and is named after a childish term for flatulence.

Zach Braff

#49. Even when I wasn't overweight I was never one of those girls or women who wanted to look nice. I always thought it wasn't important.

Jo Brand

#50. I'm an older, wall-eyed, overweight, tweedy writer who has been lucky enough to be asked to play various iterations of himself in a certain realm of popular cultutre. That gives me great joy and excitement, but I don't go to the media saying, "And I'm also the world's greatest actor."

John Hodgman

#51. Many women seem to have hang-ups about going out with me because they feel they have to be in the same shape that I am. If they're overweight, they're insecure, because they don't understand that I don't look at women the same way I look at myself.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#52. I was big as a kid, very overweight. That caused a lot of insecurities for me growing up, and on top of that, I didn't like the idea of big crowds. I found it quite frightening. I enjoy the company of people who I know, and I'm probably still like that today.

Deborah Mailman

#53. For me the most interesting thing about Leigh Bowery was the way he used his body as a style statement. He was a big guy, but, because he was tall and had long legs, he looked in proportion - even sexy - -despite being overweight by conventional -standards.

Boy George

#54. A woman at the rear of the room raised her hand. I was focused on the argument now and made a minor social error, which I quickly corrected. "The fat woman-overweight woman-at the back?"

Graeme Simsion

#55. Young adult novels don't shy away from the discussion of weight issues, and 'Blubber,' the tale of an overweight, not-so-sympathetic fifth-grader bullied by her peers, is a refreshing take.

Jami Attenberg

#56. I'm totally inhibited. When I'm overweight I will not go out.

Kirstie Alley

#57. I think that because I'm overweight, [my] fantasy was lightness. So I project my fantasy to the clothes, and now all I do is light, light clothes because it's the one thing I don't have. That is why I'm too afraid to lose weight because then I might make heavy clothes.

Alber Elbaz

#58. I'm the reason why I'm overweight. No one made me do it. I did it.

Neil Cavuto

#59. So, if you're feeling fat and overweight
And feeling oh so blue,
Remember that little rag tag mole
And what he had Catundra do.

Stephen Cosgrove

#60. Anyway, I suppose in part I'm telling this story now because I want all of you - and I do mean all - to know that I wasn't always a somewhat-overweight woman without an upper lip to her name who can occasionally be found sleeping behind her face and always thinking in her mouth.

Carrie Fisher

#61. Sweating like a fat woman in a sauna, nun with a tattoo on her tit, overweight jockey.

Dennis Vickers

#62. I've always had this nightmare of going back to the Kingdome and seeing myself waddle in bald, overweight, with a big belly hanging over my belt, and I just imagine people going, 'That's Steve Largent?'

Steve Largent

#63. Can you believe approximately 17 percent of American children ages 2 to 19 years are obese? How about this fact: approximately 60 percent of overweight children ages 5 to 10 already have at least one risk factor for heart disease? We are all to blame for this - parents, schools, kids - all of us.

Alison Sweeney

#64. Strong Phillip, able to lift overweight nymphomaniacs with both hands. Harvey

Laurell K. Hamilton

#65. A recent survey or North American males found 42% were overweight, 34% were critically obese and 8% ate the survey.

Banksy

#66. Yeah, but I do call them back and follow up. Most people talk at overweight people, I talk with them.

Richard Simmons

#67. And then
with the curse, or, in this case, blessing, of the unpopular, the unathletic, the overweight, the strange
they vanished like shadows into the spring night.

Francesca Lia Block

#68. I know one lab that studies nicotine receptors and all the scientists are smokers, and another lab that studies impulse control and they're all overweight.

David Eagleman

#69. An overweight guy went to the doctor who advised him to try a keep fit DVD. But the guy said he couldn't be bothered. "Well" suggested the doctor, "try something that leaves you a little short of breath." So the buy took up smoking.

Jo Brand

#70. Don't call me a mindless philosopher, you overweight glob of grease.

Anthony Daniels

#71. you aren't particularly good at positive self-talk, then it's time to practice and change your words. Don't talk about being overweight, ugly or dumb...because your children are listening and learning. They also need

Katrina Kahler

#72. I passed a large dark room where a wall-mounted flat-screen with sound muted showed an overweight rapper performing rap hand gestures, which are supposed to project masculine cool but in fact look like a pointlessly violent version of deaf sign language.

Glen Duncan

#73. Eating a salad (in public) is an overweight person's attempt to appear in control.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#74. People who lie to themselves about investing are the same as overweight people who blame their genes for their obesity.

Robert Kiyosaki

#75. It always amazed her how easily she could forget what she had actually eaten, and yet was never able to forget for a second she was overweight.

Pat Dennis

#76. I don't want to fly the flag for being unhealthy and overweight, but I don't want to fly the flag for being too thin, either.

Martine McCutcheon

#77. He jammed the sodden cap back on. The lumps of cloth clung to his skull like an overweight cat afraid of heights, and ruined the image of dignity.

Sarah E. Morin

#78. Acting has given me a way to channel my angst. I feel like an overweight, pimply faced kid a lot of the time - and finding a way to access that insecurity, and put it toward something creative is incredibly rewarding. I feel very lucky.

Ryan Reynolds

#79. Most of the time, the reason people are overweight is too little physical activity, in conjunction with a high-calorie, low-nutrient diet.

Joel Fuhrman

#80. When I was young and growing up overweight, I believed the "eaten" was more powerful than the "eater," meaning the food was more powerful than I was.

Daphne Oz

#81. There are less than 1 per cent of anorexic girls, but there more than 30 per cent of girls in France - I don't know about England - that are much, much overweight. And it is much more dangerous and very bad for the health.

Karl Lagerfeld

#82. The sad fact is that people are poor because they have not yet decided to be rich. People are overweight and unfit because they have not yet decided to be thin and fit. People are inefficient time wasters because they haven't yet decided to be highly productive in everything they do.

Brian Tracy

#83. For lack of a better term, they've labeled me a sex symbol. It's flattering and it should happen to every bald, overweight guy.

Dennis Franz

#84. I grew up being teased for being overweight.

Kelly Price

#85. Forty, sleepy, overweight, comfortable Arridi townsmen, who hadn't fought a real engagment in twenty years or more, wouldn't provide much resistance to thirty yelling, fiendish, bloodthirsty, gold crazed Skandians who would come screaming up from the beach like the hounds of hell.

John Flanagan

#86. I'd rather be overweight and curvy than super thin with no curves. I'm proud of my body.

Holly Madison

#87. Some people like to look at pictures of themselves before they lost weight. I don't particularly care for that. Whenever I was overweight, it was a very sad time in my life.

Richard Simmons

#88. I became hugely overweight and then hated myself because it was a form of self-abuse, something over which I had no control. I think the thing compulsive over-eaters want to achieve is that stuffed-full Christmas afternoon feeling.

Marcus Brigstocke

#89. Your Highness, give me some credit. We have dined together for weeks now. There is no one to talk to during our meals except for an overweight dog. I will have noticed some things about you." Severin

K.M. Shea

#90. Growing old, overweight and fat is not inevitable.

Mark Dilworth

#91. In America today, the percentage of children and adolescents who are defined as overweight is more than double what it was in the early 1970s.

Lois Capps

#92. You remember when you were a kid growing up, and believed in Santa Claus? There's not much difference between Santa Claus and me today, you know. We're two overweight lovable guys that kids really enjoy.

Bobby Knight

#93. From sixth grade on I was a real Pillsbury doughboy. Overweight, long hair, thick glasses.

David Keith

#94. Exaggeration is overweight truth.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#95. I'm not overweight. I'm simply overgravitated. Spell-check

Jenny Lawson

#96. I'm ugly, I'm overweight, but I'm happy

Andrew Flintoff

#97. I sensed immediately that he'd once been overweight. He moved with a fat person's tiptoey apology.

Jennifer Egan

#98. Once you've been overweight you never want to be overweight again, so you keep going, keep going, like for any addiction. Health can be an addiction, it doesn't have to be drugs or alcohol.

Craig David

#99. People tend to think of overweight and obesity as strictly a personal matter, but there is much that communities can and should do to address these problems.

David Satcher

#100. If the poor overweight jogger only knew how far he had to run to work off the calories in a crust of bread he might find it better in terms of pound per mile to go to a massage parlor.

Christiaan Barnard