Dieting Quotes

• Avoid fruits and nuts. You are what you eat.

  Jim Davis

  Funny, Hilarious, Witty

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• Your diet is a bank account. Good food choices are good investments.

  Bethenny Frankel

  Choices, Investment, Good Food

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

  Bob Hope

  Good Friend, Weight Loss, Body

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• I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number of carats in a diamond.

  Mae West

  Food, Humor, Sassy

  "The wit and wisdom of Mae West".

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• Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose!

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Wise, Health, Weight Loss

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• When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.

  St. Jerome

  Food, Perspective, Catholic

  St. Jerome (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Saint Jerome (Annotated Edition)”, p.248, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.

  Totie Fields

  Drinking, Failure, Food

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• My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.

  Orson Welles

  Food, Health, Weight Loss

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

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• One should eat to live, not live to eat.

  Moliere

  Inspiring, Food, Weight Loss

  1668 L' Avare, act 3, sc.1.

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• An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.

  Irv Kupcinet

  Thanksgiving, Optimistic, Turkeys

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• The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.

  Jackie Gleason

  Funny, Inspiring, Food

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• Food is an important part of a balanced diet.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Funny, Life, Witty

  FaceBook post by Fran Lebowitz from Apr 13, 2010

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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

  Honesty, Weight Loss, Humanity

  Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated

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• Once you have to start counting calories, it takes away from the joy of eating.

  Mireille Guiliano

  Joy, Eating, Funny Diet

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• My advice if you insist on slimming: Eat as much as you like - just don't swallow it.

  Harry Secombe

  Loss, Advice, Funny Diet

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• A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience.

  Naomi Wolf

  Motivational, Beauty, Women

  Naomi Wolf (2013). “The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women”, p.187, Random House

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• As for food, half of my friends have dug their graves with their teeth.

  Chauncey Depew

  Teeth, Half, Graves

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• Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.

  Socrates

  Food, Weight Loss, Healthy Habits

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  Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.

  Jim Davis

  Thanksgiving, Food, Zucchini

  Jim Davis (2012). “Garfield Eats His Heart Out: His 6th Book”, p.4, Ballantine Group

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

  Roseanne Barr

  Being Happy, Food, Weight Loss

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• I still battle with my deeply boring diet of, essentially, yogurt and breakfast cereal and granola bars. I hate dieting. I hate having to do it to be the 'right' size. I'm hungry all the time. I think I'm a slender person, but the industry apparently doesn't. All actresses are hungry all the time, I think.

  Julianne Moore

  Hate, Thinking, Cereal

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• Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.

  Michael Pollan

  Food, Eating Well, Too Much

  Michael Pollan (2008). “In Defence of Food: The Myth of Nutrition and the Pleasures of Eating”, Penguin UK

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• The typical old-fashioned diet (in the nineteenth century) was so bad it almost assembled modern dieting.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Humor, Loss

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• The dieting wars have got to stop.

  Lady Gaga

  War

  "Lady Gaga Is Surprise Guest At Young Women’s Conference Who Talks Bullying, Bulimia And Growing Up" by Sasha Bronner, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 7, 2012.

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• A mother who is obsessing about being thin and dieting and exercising is not going to be a very good mother.

  Jane Fonda

  Mother, Exercise, Very Good

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