Success is a staircase, not a doorway.
I looked at him nonplussed. I realized that I have spent so many years being on a diet that the idea that you might actually need calories to survive has been completely wiped out of my consciousness. Have reached point where believe nutritional idea is to eat nothing at all, and that the only reason people eat is because they are so greedy they cannot stop themselves from breaking out and ruining their diets.
The real pride, the real present, is your health and your longevity.
I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.
My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
Nothing comes merely by thinking about it.
My wife is a light eater. As soon as it's light, she starts to eat.
Attitude: It is our best friend or our worst enemy.
Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it.
I am convinced that we become what we do.
I'm fat, but I'm thin inside. . . there's a thin man inside every fat man.
I'm not overweight. I'm just nine inches too short.
Stop and reflect on what your diet is doing for you.
I think it's more important to be fit so that you can be healthy and enjoy activities than it is to have a good body.
The older you get, the tougher it is to lose weight, because by then your body and your fat are really good friends.
Sometimes customizing is necessary because of an injury or the inability to do, for a short or long period, the kind of exercise you formerly did. When you're used to customizing for fun, doing it under duress won't seem like such an imposition. Either way, experiment until you find activities that make you happy as well as healthy. Choose your exercise using the same criteria you'd apply to choosing a date--that is, attractive to you and able to hold your interest for an hour.
laugh a lot. It burns a lot of calories.
If I liked food and disliked exercise as much as a 400 pound guy, I'd be a 400 pound guy.
At the end of the day, your health is your responsibility.
We never repent of having eaten too little.