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The price of success is much lower than the price of failure.
Sep 10, 2025
Keeping off a large weight loss is a phenomenon about as common in American medicine as an impoverished dermatologist.
Permanent weight loss means making small, manageable changes and sticking with them for life.
Most people fail, not because of lack of desire, but, because of lack of commitment.
I thought a lot about how so many memoirs about fatness focus on weight loss; they don't focus on living with weight in a world that is rather inhospitable to it. So I knew that was the idea that was going to be most interesting and most challenging, and I like to be challenged as a writer.
Eating everything you want is not that much fun. When you live a life with no boundaries, there's less joy. If you can eat anything you want to, what's the fun in eating anything you want to?
I'm a girl who enjoys a great meal with great friends, so I'm not really that concerned about weight loss.
The man who goes on, even when it's the hardest to be the winner.
More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.
Fat gives things flavor.
Uh, stay fat people - That's my motto. It's no picnic!
I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man.
The reason fat men are good natured is they can neither fight nor run.
The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates.
Part of being young is you thinking that gaining 6 lbs. Is the end of the world
Eating crappy food isn't a reward -- it's a punishment.
It's easier to stay in shape if you never let yourself get out of shape in the first place.
Thank you for calling the Weight Loss Hotline. If you'd like to lose a half pound right now, press 1 eighteen thousand times.
Stop and reflect on what your diet is doing for you.
The foods that are recommended today are as palatable as a steady diet of wet blotters.
Avoid any diet that discourages the use of hot fudge.
There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.
Choice, not chance, determines destiny.
If you believe that weight loss requires self-deprivation, Im going to teach you otherwise.
There is no such thing as a self-made man. You will reach your goals only with the help of others.
Good physical condition is protection. Our strength comes from our body.
Get comfortable with being uncomfortable!
Put all excuses aside and remember this: YOU are capable.
Place a picture of someone that looks like what you want to look like when you reach your weight loss and fitness goal somewhere nearby. However, be sure to keep it realistic to your own body type. This is a visual reminder of what the end result of your fitness and weight loss program will be, helping to keep you motivated.
I am a better person when I have less on my plate.
Some people have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending not to mind, what they eat. For my part, I mind my belly very studiously, and very carefully; for I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else.
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).
If you don't do what's best for your body, you're the one who comes up on the short end.
The good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It's your mind you have to convince.
Oh. No wonder I'd been sick. I hadn't eaten anything since then. I'm a girl who likes her meals, so it hadn't been a weight-loss tactic. I'd just been too busy bumping from crisis to crisis. Go on the Sookie Stackhouse Narrow Avoidance of Death Diet! Run for your life, and miss meals, too! Exercise plus starvation.
We've got a recipe for disaster. It's huge -- this combination of body image issues and the drug's weight loss appeal.
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.
We talk a lot on 'Biggest Loser' about how fitness is a natural antidepressant, how it burns off stress. What I like about running is that it gives me time alone. I'm always busy, with people at work, with my kids. I love getting out for a run by myself and just listening to my music.
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
My advice if you insist on slimming: Eat as much as you like - just don't swallow it.
Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.
The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.
Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
Associated with this weight gain are increased risks in adulthood for joint problems, angina, high blood pressure, heart attacks, strokes, type 2 diabetes and, ultimately, premature death. Outside of the human costs, health experts estimate that treating adult obesity-related ailments will cost the American economy nearly $150 billion in 2009.
The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.
Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage.
You can't do it all yourself. Don't be afraid to rely on others to help you accomplish your goals.
When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you could n't hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that 's just the place and time that the tide'll turn.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.