Quotes About Self-care

I eat well, but I don't believe in diets.

Diets are rubbish. I eat healthily, and often have a day when I stuff myself.

I think diets are ridiculous because eventually you have to stop, and then what? You put all the weight back on.

Diets don't really work for me.

No crash diets work. I have tried everything, believe me.

I don't like diets, so I just try to eat well.

Yes, I've lost close to 30 kilos. Nothing drastic. No crash diets.

All the makeup in the world won't make a difference without great skincare.

I'm addicted to picking my nose. In a world of red tape and bureaucracy, where it takes forever to buy a house or get a cell-phone plan going, it's so instant to just stick your finger up there and go for something your own body produces.

Being able to step away from your work is big. Not even the actual work of sitting down and looking at game tape, but actually putting your job aside and focusing on other things. That's a big part of being successful in this league.

I put the Manuka Doctor Targeted Wrinkle Filler around my eyes - it is a great pick me up for when my eyes are tired.

There's plenty to read about keeping your sanity while raising children, but it's all common-sense stuff about task division and taking breaks and the relentlessly repeated magic of date night with your spouse. What's missing is some 'tude.

When I feel that burden of representation in public spaces, it helps to recognize that it's a duty - a job, really. As with any job that you want to do well, you have to ensure that first and foremost you are energized and in the right head space to take on that task.

I don't like junk food, just because I don't like the taste of it, but I don't go to the gym - ever.

Honestly, nothing tastes as good as feeling good.

Remember that everything you do in the gym makes a difference in the way you live your life outside of the gym. The brownie tastes better when there's no guilt for eating it. Your relationships with other people are more satisfying.

I had eyebrows and eyeliner tattooed, so I have, like, make-up. How lovely is that?

I do have a few little tattoos, but they were mostly done to cover scars because I'm so fair.

When you are low, you do tattoos and it gives you adrenaline for a couple of days and you're happy.

Diabetes taught me discipline.

Cycling taught me to recognize that mental health is on a sliding scale. Some days you are up and some days you are down.

The 'Black Panther' world taught me about the importance of exfoliating.

We're getting older, and we were never taught these things as kids: how to eat the right portions or the right food.

Elizabeth Taylor taught me that if you do your hair and makeup first then take a hot bath right before you leave, it brings out your inner glow and takes away the powdery look from makeup. I do that right before every date.