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| 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 cardiologist’s diet: If it tastes good, spit it out. ~ Author Unknown |
| One should eat to live, not live to eat. ~ Cicero, |
| 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 |
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| 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," |
| 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, |
| 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 one way to get thin is to re-establish a purpose in life. ~ Cyril Connolly, |
| 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 |
| 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 |