quotations about diets & dieting
I've been on a diet for two weeks, and all I've lost is 14 days.
TOTIE FIELDS
Woman's Day, Aug. 2011
The trouble with dieting is that a pound of will power takes off only an ounce of weight.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
As I see it, dieting is like going underwater and holding your breath. Eventually, you have to come up. And that's what dieting is like--it's like holding your breath underwater. Eventually you have to come to the surface, and when you do, you gasp for air and inhale all you can. It's the same way with trying to go without eating.
BILL PHILLIPS
Eating for Life
I'm on a seafood diet. I see food, and I eat it.
ANONYMOUS
Dieting fooled you into thinking you could control your life.
JEFFREY EUGENIDES
The Marriage Plot
Diets are like boyfriends--it never really works to go back to them.
NIGELLA LAWSON
Sunday Times, March 5, 2006
Just think of all those women on the Titanic who said, "No thank you" to desert that night. And for what?
ERMA BOMBECK
attributed, A Year of Living Sinfully
No disease that can be treated by diet should be treated with any other means.
MAIMONIDES
attributed, The Whole Foods Diet
Diets show to what great lengths women will go so as not to go to great widths.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
It is easier to change a man's religion than to change his diet.
MARGARET MEAD
attributed, The Inside Tract
Dear Diet,
Things just aren't going to work between us. It's not me, it's you. You're tasteless, boring & I can't stop cheating on you.
ANONYMOUS
Dieting is like living on a "calorie budget". You can spend your "income" on anything you'd like, including carbohydrates, fat and protein, but when you've used up your budgeted allocation you can't add more to your budget for that time period.
EDWARD J. COATES
Measured Success!
They told me to diet
I promised I'd try it
Yet somehow my weight would not budge
Each Metrecal cookie
To me tasted kooky,
So I covered it with hot fudge
ALLAN SHERMAN
"Little Butterball", Allan in Wonderland
Mark what and how great blessings flow from a frugal diet; in the first place, thou enjoyest good health.
HORACE
attributed, Day's Collacon
You don't have to be emaciated or vomiting to be suffering. All people who live their lives on a diet are suffering.
PORTIA DE ROSSI
Unbearable Lightness
In two decades I've lost a total of 789 pounds. I should be hanging from a charm bracelet.
ERMA BOMBECK
attributed, On Being Blonde: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Most Infamous Blondes
I am a better person when I have less on my plate.
ELIZABETH GILBERT
Eat
DIET RULE #1: If nobody sees you eating it, it doesn't contain any calories.
ANONYMOUS
Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.
MICHAEL POLLAN
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
Stop rewarding yourself with food. You are not a dog.
ANONYMOUS