Dieting Quotes - Page 2

• My weight always fluctuates by 10 pounds. After trying Atkins and doing Nutrisystem a few times, now I’m just focused on maintaining a healthy lifestyle rather than dieting.

  Miranda Lambert

  Healthy, Trying, Weight

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• I hate dieting. Let’s just say that.

  Shay Mitchell

  Hate, I Hate

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• Forget about calories - everything makes thin people thinner, and fat people fatter.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  People, Forget, Fats

  "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

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• I was member of the Diet as long as it existed, until May 1933.

  Fritz Sauckel

  Long, May, Members

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• Environmental concern is a little like dieting or paying off credit-card debt - an episodically terrific idea that burns brightly and then seems to fade when we realize there's a reason we need to diet or pay down our debt. The reason is that it's really, really hard, and too many of us in too many spheres of life choose the easy over the hard.

  Jon Meacham

  Ideas, Environmental, Spheres

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• In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Nature, Food, Cooking

  Poor Richard's Almanack (1734)

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• I tried every diet in the book. I tried some that weren't in the book. I tried eating the book. It tasted better than most of the diets.

  Dolly Parton

  Funny, Fitness, Book

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• Eat as much as you like-just don't swallow it.

  Steve Burns

  Food, Cooking, Culinary

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• The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.

  Calvin Trillin

  Funny, Mothers Day, Mom

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• I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead - not sick, not wounded - dead.

  Woody Allen

  Witty, Food, Oysters

  "Don't Drink the Water: A Comedy in Two Acts". Play by Woody Allen (p. 26), 1967.

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

  Margaret Cho

  Brain, Inspirational Weight Loss, Firsts

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  No diet will remove all the fat from your body because the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain, you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Running, Loss, Office

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• Dieting: A system of starving yourself to death so you can live a little longer.

  Jan Murray

  Littles, Starving, Starving Yourself

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• Dieting on New Year's Day isn't a good idea as you can't eat rationally but really need to be free to consume whatever is necessary, moment by moment, in order to ease your hangover. I think it would be much more sensible if resolutions began generally on January the second.

  Helen Fielding

  New Year, Hangover, Thinking

  Helen Fielding (2013). “The Bridget Jones Omnibus: The Singleton Years: Bridget Jones's Diary & The Edge of Reason”, p.14, Pan Macmillan

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• Every video I'm in, every magazine cover, they stretch you - they make you perfect. It's not real life. I'm gonna say this about girls: The dieting wars have got to stop. Everyone just knock it off. Because at the end of the day, it's affecting kids your age. And it's making girls sick.

  Lady Gaga

  Girl, Real, War

  "Lady Gaga and the Remaking of Celebrity Culture". Book by Amber Davisson, 2013.

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• Because I stopped dieting already six months ago, and I think it's important to bring out a book like this and you are there a year later and say look, I'm still like this.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Book, Thinking, Years

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• You can't have a world where 50 percent of the people are dieting and 50 percent of the people are starving if you want stability.

  John Shelby Spong

  People, World, Want

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• Our society's strong emphasis on dieting and self-image can sometimes lead to eating disorders. We know that more than 5 million Americans suffer from eating disorders, most of them young women.

  Tipper Gore

  Strong Women, Self, Suffering

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I am a better person when I have less on my plate.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Food, Weight Loss, Better Person

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• The biggest seller is cookbooks and the second is diet books - how not to eat what you've just learned how to cook.

  Andy Rooney

  Book, Loss, Weight

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• If you have formed the habit of checking on every new diet that comes along, you will find that, mercifully, they all blur together, leaving you with only one definite piece of information: french-fried potatoes are out.

  Jean Kerr

  Funny Inspirational, Food, Loss

  Jean Kerr (1959). “Please Don't Eat the Daisies”

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• I'm not overweight. I'm just nine inches too short.

  Shelley Winters

  Funny Inspirational, Humorous, Weight Loss

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• When I buy cookies I eat just four and throw the rest away. But first I spray them with Raid so I won't dig them out of the garbage later. Be careful, though, because Raid really doesn't taste that bad.

  Janette Barber

  Funny Food, Cookies, Weight

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• I think dieting is bad for you.

  Joan Collins

  Thinking

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• I started dieting. I dieted, dieted, dieted and tried all the diets and I would lose and then I would go back to normal eating and would put it on and then some.

  Suzanne Somers

  Normal, Eating, Loses

  "A Conversation with Suzanne Somers". Interview with Cheri Sicard, fabulousfoods.com. August 6, 2007.

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