Quotes About Wellness

If we don't choose to intentionally and consciously slow down and stop being in a rush, your body and mind will force you to do it anyway.

I've never worked out, mate. It doesn't interest me.

In our million-mile-an-hour culture of never enough, working less is interpreted as working less well. This isn't always the case.

It's not that we simply get old, and memory starts to go, and sleep starts to deteriorate. But those two things actually are significantly interrelated.

Ideally, it would be five days a week, spending at least an hour at the gym doing cardio three of those days and resistance training all of those days. My cardio is typically interval training.

The good-news stories in medicine are early detection, early intervention.

I'm really not so crazy. I mean, I try not to do things that make me really miserable.

Renzo was the same kind of vegetarian as me, which meant he set out each morning to eat only raw foods and, as the day progressed, grew more and more corrupt—never degenerating into anything truly fatal like French fries or actual meat, but still . . .

Dance has a transformative effect on bodily trauma.

Make food choices that honor your health and taste buds while making you feel good. Remember that you don't have to eat a perfect diet to be healthy. You will not suddenly get a nutrient deficiency, or gain weight from one snack, one meal, or one day of eating. It's what you eat consistently over time that matters. Progress, not perfection, is what counts.

Having a healthy relationship with food means you are not morally superior or inferior based on your eating choices.

We define healthy eating as having a healthy balance of foods and having a healthy relationship with food.

Unconscious dieting usually occurs in the form of meticulous eating habits.

In our society, the pursuit of thinness (whether for health or physique)—has become the battle cry of seemingly every American.

Although physically eating the food, they were emotionally depriving themselves in the future.

When underfed—whether from a self-imposed diet or starvation—you will obsess about food.

honor your hunger, respect your fullness, cope with feelings with kindness, reject the diet mentality).

Quality fats—fat is also a nutrient, required by the body. Notably, when the essentiality of fats was first discovered, they were called "vitamin F" (Evans et al. 1928). Too bad this nomenclature didn't stick—if it had, it would help remind people that we do need some fat in our diet.

Self-care is defined as the daily process of attending to your basic physical and emotional needs, which include the shaping of your daily routine, relationships, and environment, as needed to promote self-care (Cook-Cottone 2015).

Ironically a "good" or "bad" scale number can both trigger overeating—whether it's a congratulatory eating party or a consolation party.

The perpetual pursuit of food plans and trying to change your body size rob you of truly getting to know yourself and your emotions. Dieting can serve as a coping mechanism, as can over-exercising—which ultimately disconnects you from your feelings.

We have become a nation riddled with guilt based on how we eat.

See the chart below.

the many experiences you will encounter. If, however, you focus on the end result (which for many people is weight or the amount of pounds lost), it can make you feel overwhelmed and discouraged, and end up sabotaging the process.