Diets Quotes - Page 5

• To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness, indeed.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Food, Health, Exercise

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• I'm on a diet. It's very strict: all hot dogs. Just sausages, constantly. It's working out - I've gained fifteen pounds!

  Beth Ditto

  Music, Dog, Work Out

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• The human body has been designed to resist an infinite number of changes and attacks brought about by its environment. The secret of good health lies in successful adjustment to changing stresses on the body.

  Harry Johnson

  Stress, Lying, Health

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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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  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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• I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.

  Lady Gaga

  Strict

  "Lady Gaga Discusses Weight Gain, Reveals Culinary Guilty Pleasures". Interview with Elvis Duran, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 20, 2012.

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• My biggest regret is putting my body through fad diets: Atkins, cleanses, the hCG diet.

  Jennie Garth

  Regret, Body, Fads

  "Jennie Garth: How I Made a Fresh Start". Interview with Amy Spencer, www.health.com. January 3, 2013.

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• Diets are for those who are thick and tired of it.

  Mary Tyler Moore

  Tired, Thick

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

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• I'm from the Midwest, and guys like me don't go on diets. We don't do well on spinning classes.

  Michael Moore

  Class, Guy, Midwest

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• I still indulge in a glass of wine or chocolate - treats are mandatory. Without deviating from the day-to-day healthy diet once in a while, it wouldn't be sustainable for me, and that's what I wanted: an approach to eating to last my entire life.

  Alanis Morissette

  Inspirational, Motivational, Wine

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• For four to six months at a time, I would barely eat. I lived on a diet of Melba toast, carrots, and black coffee.

  Alanis Morissette

  Coffee, Black, Six Months

  "Alanis Morissette's new outlook on health". www.cnn.com. November 13, 2009.

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• I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth foregoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.

  John Mortimer

  Years, Worry, Three

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

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• But I can only take so much TV, because there is so much advice. I find people will preach about virtually anything - your diet, how to live your life, how to improve your golf. The lot. I have always had a thing against the Mister Know-It-Alls.

  Bill Murray

  Golf, People, Advice

  "Old stone face cracks". Interview with Garth Pearce, www.theguardian.com. October 21, 2005.

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• I really don't like talking about diets.

  Bess Myerson

  Talking, Nba, Boston Celtics

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• I have a very pragmatic approach to diets. Ones you can't stick to don't do you any good. Some people say, 'Just eat half of what's on your plate,' but I can't do that!

  Nathan Myhrvold

  People, Sticks, Half

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• Software-industry battles are fought by highly paid and out-of-shape nerds furiously pounding computer keyboards while they guzzle diet Coke. The stakes aren't very dramatic. Life? Liberty? The pursuit of happiness? Nope, it's about stock options.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Pursuit Of Happiness, Dramatic Life, Nerd

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• Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Running, Health

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Jul 20, 2015

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• At the end of every diet, the path curves back to the trough.

  Mason Cooley

  Loss, Curves, Path

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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, Dieting

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• A diet is a plan, generally hopeless, for reducing your weight, which tests your will power but does little for your waistline.

  Herbert V. Prochnow

  Loss, Doe, Weight

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• Both belly bulge and love handles are about excess body fat, not lack of muscle. Crunches and ab exercises are therefore not the solution. The best way to reduce these problem areas is to reduce your overall body fat percentage, and we all know that that requires diet and exercise.

  Jillian Michaels

  Loss, Exercise, And Love

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• For most celebrities, the biggest meal of the day is toothpaste (they use reduced-fat Crest).

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humor, Loss

  Dave Barry (2003). “Boogers Are My Beat: More Lies, but Some Actual Journalism”, p.147, Crown Archetype

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• Albert Einstein, who discovered that a tiny amount of mass is equal to a huge amount of energy, which explains why, as Einstein himself so eloquently put it in a famous 1939 speech to the Physics Department at Princeton, 'You have to exercise for a week to work off the thigh fat from a single Snickers.'

  Dave Barry

  Exercise, Snickers, Tiny

  Dave Barry (1999). “Dave Barry Turns 50”, Random House Digital, Inc.

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• I tried the Scarsdale diet and the Stillman water diet (you remember that one, where you run weight off trying to get to the bathroom).

  Dolly Parton

  Funny, Running, Humor

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• You can't be fat and fast, too; so lift, run, diet and work.

  Hank Stram

  Running, Fats, Lifts

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