Quotes about Lose Weight Dieting 1

When we lose twenty pounds... we may be losing the twenty best pounds we have!  We may be losing the pounds that contain our genius, our humanity, our love and honesty.  ~Woody Allen

Don't dig your grave with your own knife and fork.  ~English Proverb

Your stomach shouldn't be a waist basket.  ~Author Unknown

A diet is the penalty we pay for exceeding the feed limit.  ~Author Unknown

More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.  ~John Kenneth Galbraith, The Affluent Society

The cardiologist's diet:  If it tastes good, spit it out.  ~Author Unknown

One should eat to live, not live to eat.  ~Cicero,Rhetoricorum LV

Inside some of us is a thin person struggling to get out, but they can usually be sedated with a few pieces of chocolate cake.  ~Author Unknown

I've decided that perhaps I'm bulimic and just keep forgetting to purge.  ~Paula Poundstone

In the Middle Ages, they had guillotines, stretch racks, whips and cahins.  Nowadays, we have a much more effective torture device called the bathroom scale.  ~Stephen Phillips

It's okay to be fat.  So you're fat.  Just be fat and shut up about it.  ~Roseanne Barr

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.  ~Jean Kerr, "Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall," The Snake Has All the Lines, 1958

People are so worried about what they eat between Christmas and the New Year, but they really should be worried about what they eat between the New Year and Christmas.  ~Author Unknown

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, Dave Barry Turns 50

Reality check:  you can never, ever, use weight loss to solve problems that are not related to your weight.  At your goal weight or not, you still have to live with yourself and deal with your problems.  You will still have the same husband, the same job, the same kids, and the same life.  Losing weight is not a cure for life.  ~Phillip C. McGraw, The Ultimate Weight Solution: The 7 Keys to Weight Loss Freedom, 2003

The one way to get thin is to re-establish a purpose in life.  ~Cyril Connolly, The Unquiet Grave

If nature had intended our skeletons to be visible it would have put them on the outside of our bodies.  ~Elmer Rice

Avoid any diet that discourages the use of hot fudge.  ~Don Kardong

I keep trying to lose weight... but it keeps finding me!  ~Author Unknown

I never worry about diets.  The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.  ~Mae West

I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is fourteen days.  ~Totie Fields

Rich, fatty foods are like destiny:  they too, shape our ends.  ~Author Unknown

I'm on a seafood diet.  I see food and I eat it.  ~Author Unknown

The older you get, the tougher it is to lose weight, because by then your body and your fat are really good friends.  ~Author Unknown

Forget love - I'd rather fall in chocolate!  ~Attributed to Sandra J. Dykes

Stressed spelled backwards is desserts.  Coincidence?  I think not!  ~Author Unknown

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

Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.  ~Peter De Vries

If hunger is not the problem, then eating is not the solution.  ~Author Unknown

Nothing tastes as good as being thin feels.  ~Author Unknown

If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.  Kate Moss?  Well, she would have been the paintbrush.  ~Dawn French

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


The first thing you lose on a diet is your sense of humor.  ~Author Unknown

Food is like sex:  when you abstain, even the worst stuff begins to look good.  ~Beth McCollister

I go up and down the scale so often that if they ever perform an autopsy on me they'll find me like a strip of bacon - a streak of lean and a streak of fat.  ~Texas Guinan

Life itself is the proper binge.  ~Julia Child

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst, for they are sticking to their diets.  ~Author Unknown

I recently had my annual physical examination, which I get once every seven years, and when the nurse weighed me, I was shocked to discover how much stronger the Earth's gravitational pull has become since 1990.  ~Dave Barry

Dieting is wishful shrinking.  ~Author Unknown

It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears.  ~Plutarch

Bigger snacks mean bigger slacks.  ~Author Unknown

I'm allergic to food.  Every time I eat it breaks out into fat.  ~Jennifer Greene Duncan