Quotes About Self-care

I did as much research as I could and I took ownership of this illness, because if you don't take care of your body, where are you going to live?

The best fitness and training advice has to be: Listen to your body.

It is not easy to lose or gain weight. The diet and the exercise regime should be compatible with your body, or else you end up with wrinkles and hair loss.

Procrastination is your body telling you you need to back off a bit and think more about what you are doing.

Tell me, when do you become a respectable person in society? When you start respecting yourself. That is when you take care of yourself, that is when you comb your hair, groom yourself, and cleanse your body. You do all this because you respect yourself.

Breastfeeding takes a toll on your body... your spirit.

Pay attention to your body. The point is everybody is different. You have to figure out what works for you.

When I'm having a really rough day, I take it out in the gym. It releases so many endorphins in your body.

If you do a full-on workout and then eat McDonald's or Wendy's, you're defeating the purpose. If you put good things into your body while working out, you'll see results.

If something hurtful enters your body, you create something beautiful to protect yourself from it. That's my philosophy.

Just losing a couple pounds takes so much stress off your joints. Your body feels better.

You may not believe in anything called a work-life balance, but your body certainly does. You need to monitor and nurture your body.

As a woman, I believe you have to embrace your body, and feel beautiful both inside and out.

I think it's very important to be mindful of your body and actually listen to it. If I'm craving a certain kind of food, I'll have, but I notice when I'm full. It's kind of like a logical diet. I think when people go on restrictive diets, they put too much stress on themselves, which might make them prone to bingeing.

The best thing you can do for your body is sleep. It's simple. Cater to your body as much as to your mind. Your body, after all, houses your mind. You have to pay attention to your physicality as much as your mentality.

I explain to athletes, you're supposed to be a well-oiled machine. You're supposed to be in better shape than the people watching you. You're supposed to be an unbelievable specimen of a human being. You have to treat your body different while you're performing.

Eating smart is all about having an awareness of your body. The most obvious way to do that is by seeing it. So when you're trying to lose weight, spend more time wearing less. I don't think I could eat a plate of nachos naked - could you?

If you're in a company, you're dancing from 9 a.m. till 7 in the evening, and then you go home and get in a hot tub and get some Epsom salts and try to get your body goin' again. There's no social life, no anything.

You can only punish your body so long before you're stuck with a horrendous inability to do things you'd previously been able to do.

Ignoring the needs of your body, both physically and mentally, could be very harmful later on.

You can control what you put in your body - 100 percent. You really can control your level of fitness and how your body looks.

If you continually diet, you are putting your body in a quasi-famine situation. It slows your metabolism down and breaks the thermostat. Diets don't work. They don't help you understand why you're eating more than your body wanted in the first place.

I've learned that no matter what shape you get your body into, if you don't get your head right, you're not going to feel good about yourself.

Almost 70 per cent of your fitness battle is won the day you realise what your body needs and when. I've made my own diets, and I decide for myself what works for me.