Dieting Quotes - Page 7

• Dieting fooled you into thinking you could control your life.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Thinking, Fooled

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2011). “The Marriage Plot: A Novel”, p.30, Macmillan

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• God tries to first create a joyous yes inside of you, far more than any kind of no . . . Just saying no is resentful dieting, whereas finding your deeper yes, and eating from that table, is always a spiritual banquet.

  Richard Rohr

  Spiritual, Trying, Saying No

  Richard Rohr (2013). “Immortal Diamond: The search for our true self”, p.126, SPCK

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• Why is it when you're dieting, you crave everything?

  Kim Kardashian

  Crave

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• When I hit my thirties, that's when I calmed down and I wasn't so tough on myself. I wasn't doing the yo-yo dieting any more. I gave myself a break. I think that, if you're more accepting of yourself, you're more free and open and can just allow more people in.

  Nicole Scherzinger

  Thinking, People, Down And

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

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• There are studies that tell us that stress and lack of self-image, lack of self-esteem, severe dieting, binge dieting and binge eating can also be very damaging to a body and bring on various kinds of abnormalities.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Self Esteem, Stress, Body

  Source: www.npr.org

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• One of the differences between now and then is that the idea of body image is a much bigger issue now. Back then, just being kind of heavy and barrel-chested passed for heroic. Now, you wouldn't dare to play a hero without a lot of dieting and various specialised abdomen machines. But that was one of the things which was interesting about it and I did want to portray because there's good and bad.

  Ben Affleck

  Hero, Issues, Play

  Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Disciplined governments do not engage in the economic equivalent of binge eating followed by crash dieting.

  Peter Blair Henry

  Government, Eating, Crash

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