Richard Simmons Quotes About Eating

Quotes about: Eating

• I spent my childhood eating. The only exercise I got was trying to twist off the cap of a jar of mayonnaise.

  Richard Simmons

  Exercise, Childhood, Trying

  "Richard Simmons On The Best Advice He Ever Got". The Huffington Post Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 27, 2012.

• Therell always be some weird thing about eating four grapes before you go to bed, or drinking a special tea, or buying this little bean from El Salvador.

  Richard Simmons

  Drinking, Tea, Special

• Stop trying to find something in food that will make you feel better. I used to have eating disorders; I'd binge and purge all the time: fried oysters, po' boys, muffulettas, beignets, coffee and doughnuts. I tried to medicate myself with food when people made fun of me or hit me with a bat in school. I'd always turn to food.

  Richard Simmons

  Fun, Coffee, School

  "Pharaohs of fitness". Interview with Julie Deardorff, www.chicagotribune.com. April 18, 2012.

• After all the throwing up, I would starve myself. Which meant eating lettuce and water for two and a half months. I almost lost my life.

  Richard Simmons

  Two, Water, Half

  Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.menshealth.com. April 25, 2012.

• I suffered from eating disorders when I was just a kid. I did not like me or the way I looked. But back then, you could not tell anyone.

  Richard Simmons

  Kids, Eating Disorder, Way

• Truthfully, everyone knows how to eat right. They know the difference between oatmeal and a jelly cream doughnut. They know how to walk. Everyone has this in their brain. When I started, we didn't have all this knowledge. Forty years ago, I lost my weight, but only by watching what I was eating.

  Richard Simmons

  Years, Differences, Oatmeal

  "Pharaohs of fitness". Interview with Julie Deardorff, articles.orlandosentinel.com. April 18, 2012.

• Stop trying to find something in food that will make you feel better. I used to have eating disorders; I'd binge and purge all the time: fried oysters, po' boys, muffulettas, beignets, coffee and doughnuts. I tried to medicate myself with food when people made fun of me or hit me with a bat in school. I'd always turn to food. Knowing what I now know, I'd turn to me.

  Richard Simmons

  Fun, Coffee, School

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

• I'm 64, but I act like I'm still 12. I go to schools. At colleges, they come out in droves, they almost scare me. I think it's just to see if I'm still alive. After I work them out - and it's not easy - I sit them down and we have a serious talk. Are they eating? Working on their body? I can say things parents won't say. No matter where I go, I talk to each one individually after I teach. They tell me things like, 'I'm starving, guys like girls thinner.' I give them concrete advice about self-image and self-worth.

  Richard Simmons

  Girl, School, Self Worth

  "Pharaohs of fitness". Interview with Julie Deardorff, articles.chicagotribune.com. April 18, 2012.

• I began reading cook books when I was six, cause my father had hundreds of cook books in the kitchen. I was obsessed with cooking and tasting different recipes. I got lost in being a compulsive eater. It brought me much happiness. Sadness too, sure. But I have to say, and compulsive eaters will agree with me, for that few seconds that you're eating, food tastes just great.

  Richard Simmons

  Father, Reading, Book

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

• I get energy from meditation practice and from eating healthy fresh food, only one cup of espresso in the morning, and not drinking too much.

  Richard Simmons

  Morning, Drinking, Meditation Practice

• It's my life dream to be able to go and continue going to schools and teaching them about stretching and aerobics, cardio and strength training, because I want them to have a better life than I did. I don't want them to grow up to be me. I want them to be healthy. I want them not to go through eating disorders [like me].

  Richard Simmons

  Dream, Growing Up, Teaching

  Source: www.foxnews.com

• I have rules about eating, exercising and rules about staying positive. And these rules are sacred to me.

  Richard Simmons

  Exercise, Stay Positive, Sacred

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

• All of a sudden, I'm thinking that if I keep eating the way I'm eating, I'm not going to live long and I'm going to die. Having those thoughts as a young person can be very haunting.

  Richard Simmons

  Thinking, Long, Haunting

  Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.menshealth.com. April 25, 2012.

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