Calories Quotes - Page 7

• So why is a third of our world battling obesity and spending huge sums to burn off excess calories, while the other two-thirds yearn to get more of them?

  Wess Stafford

  Our World, Two, Excess

  Wess Stafford (2010). “Too Small to Ignore: Why the Least of These Matters Most”, p.177, WaterBrook

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• I was very obsessed. I mean, I could tell you the fat content and the calorie content in absolutely anything.

  Victoria Beckham

  Mean, Anorexia, Obsessed

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• If you run 100 miles a week, you can eat anything you want - Why? Because (a) you'll burn all the calories you consume, (b) you deserve it, and (c) you'll be injured soon and back on a restricted diet anyway.

  Don Kardong

  Inspirational, Running, Track And Field

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• Cutting carbs, fats, or calories (dieting) is like trying to hold your breath.  The longer you do it, the more your body resists it until you finally gasp for air – taking in more than ever to overcome the short-term deficit you induced.

  Matt Stone

  Cutting, Air, Trying

  Matt Stone (2014). “Diet Recovery: Restoring Hormonal Health, Metabolism, Mood and Your Relationship with Food”, p.19, Matt Stone

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• Food, in the end, in our own tradition, is something holy. It's not about nutrients and calories. It's about sharing. It's about honesty. It's about identity.

  Louise Fresco

  God, Honesty, Soul

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• Somebody who talks about how much they're eating and counts calories is unattractive to me. And when you limit yourself in the things you eat, it affects your mood. I've seen people who are a nightmare to be around because they're not eating. That's why I always have an apple in my purse or a Luna Bar in the glove box in case I get stuck in traffic - I don't even want to be alone in the car with myself if I'm hungry!

  Nina Dobrev

  Beauty, Apples, Car

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• I think steak is the ultimate comfort food, and if you're going out for one, that isn't the time to scrimp on calories or quality.

  Tom Colicchio

  Thinking, Quality, Comfort

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• Planning complex, beautiful meals and investing one's heart and time in their preparation is the opposite of self-indulgence. Kitchen-based family gatherings are process-oriented, cooperative, and in the best of worlds, nourishing and soulful. A lot of calories get used up before anyone sits down to consume. But more importantly, a lot of talk happens first, news exchanged, secrets revealed across generations, paths cleared with a touch on the arm. I have given and received some of my life's most important hugs with those big oven-mitt potholders on both hands.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Beautiful, Heart, Self

  Barbara Kingsolver (2010). “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating”, p.288, Faber & Faber

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• Literature was not promulgated by a pale and emasculated critical priesthood singing their litanies in empty churches - nor is it a game for the cloistered elect, the tinhorn mendicants of low calorie despair. Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of human need for it, and it has not changed except to become more needed. The skalds, the bards, the writers are not separate and exclusive. From the beginning, their functions, their duties, their responsibilities have been decreed by our species. --speech at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, December 10, 1962

  John Steinbeck

  Responsibility, Games, Cities

  John Steinbeck (2001). “A Life in Letters”, p.1250, Penguin UK

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• - "Women should all move to Amazonia, or at least vacation there four times a year." - "Amazonia?" - "It's the girl world in my head, where I go when I'm annoyed with Carter, or just men in general. There are five shoe stores per capita, nothing has any calories, and all the books and movies end happy ever after." - "I like Amazonia. When do we leave?

  Nora Roberts

  Girl, Moving, Book

  Nora Roberts (2010). “Happy Ever After”, p.211, Penguin

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• ... the food was good solid stuff for a cold morning, all calories and fat and protein and maybe a vitamin crying softly because it was all alone.

  Terry Pratchett

  Morning, Stuff, Vitamins

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Guards! Guards!: (Discworld Novel 8)”, p.117, Random House

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• The calories in chocolate don't count because chocolate comes from the cocoa bean, and everyone knows that beans are good for you.

  Jill Shalvis

  Chocolate, Cocoa, Beans

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• It is not as if farming brought a great improvement in living standards either. A typical hunter-gatherer enjoyed a more varied diet and consumed more protein and calories than settled people, and took in five times as much viatmin C as the average person today.

  Bill Bryson

  Average, People, Typical

  Bill Bryson (2010). “At Home: A Short History of Private Life”, p.66, Random House

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• Because I’ve got a lot more terms of endearment to use. Honey pie. Sugarplum. Bread pudding," “Why are they all high-calorie foods?

  Richelle Mead

  Pie, Bread Pudding, Use

  Richelle Mead (2013). “The Indigo Spell: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.81, Penguin

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• ..Sage is convinced one extraneous calorie will make her go from super skinny to just regular skinny. Tragedy.

  Richelle Mead

  Tragedy, Sage, Skinny

  Richelle Mead (2012). “The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.40, Penguin

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• To look and feel my best, I watch my calories and exercise.

  Kim Kardashian

  Exercise, Watches, Looks

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• I don't have a strict diet. It's all about cramming in as many calories into my system as I possibly can. To be honest with you, I have a tough time keeping weight on.

  Michael Phelps

  Sports, Time Keeping, Tough Times

  Interview with Patrick Mauro, www.ign.com. July, 2005.

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• You can't be protein deficient without being calorie deficient because even if you take the foods that have the least amount of protein in them, let's say potatoes, for example, or rice at 8 or 9%. That's the figure we more or less need.

  T. Colin Campbell

  Example, Needs, Potatoes

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• And then it hit me. One of those evil thoughts siblings get because, well, that's what we do. Looking over my shoulder I said, "You know, since you have some free time, maybe you could...never mind." "What?" "Well it's just that, all those calories you've been drink - I mean - not burning off have kind of settled on your gut. I didn't want to mention anything," I said as Dave's hand stole to his midsection. "But the general pointed out that you'd lost a few steps training-wise." I laughed and waved my hand. "I'm sure it's nothing switching to a light beer won't cure.

  Jennifer Rardin

  Wise, Sibling, Mean

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• Juno MacGuff: You can never have too many of your favorite one calorie breath mints.

  Diablo Cody

  Mint, Your Favorite, Breaths

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• It certainly would have been adaptive for ancestral man to have a chubby wife during stressful times of famine. Not only would she have had more calories to burn, and thus more energy and endurance, but since fat stores estrogen, she would have remained fertile for longer.

  Helen Fisher

  Men, Wife, Endurance

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• I don't know how many calories an average chess player burns per game, but it often exceeds that of a player in ball games. It is not only the chess as such: You need to be fit and undergo complicated preparation.

  Viswanathan Anand

  Player, Average, Games

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• Even low-calorie diets and vigorous exercise fail to work in the long term for at least some people.

  Andrew Weil

  Exercise, Long, People

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• I do a lot of cardio. I think it's super important, especially for women. I don't have a tremendous amount of time to work out, so I find myself cramming in a cardio because that's all I can fit in. I think that if you don't have a lot of time, that it's the cleanest way to burn a few calories.

  Alison Sweeney

  Thinking, Work Out, Important

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• I was definitely one of those people who fell for the fat-free cookies and chips that are loaded with sugar and calories.

  Alison Sweeney

  People, Cookies, Sugar

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