Quotes About Weight

Sentirse completamente solo en el mundo, abandonado de repente por todos, abatido por el peso de una vergüenza desconocida o de alguna condena silenciosa es algo más pavoroso y misterioso que la muerte.

There is a significant body of research that goes beyond telling us that weight does not really matter all that much, to suggest that carrying a few extra pounds, over and above the weights currently being recommended, may actually have health benefits, resulting in reduced risk of many diseases and disorders that affect quality as well as length of life. These diseases include lung cancer, the number-one cause of cancer deaths among men and women, premenopausal breast cancer, and osteoporosis.

Looking at international economic life brings to mind the ancient image of the world riding on the back of a turtle—only in reality, the turtle is a woman. She inches along, laboring just beneath the level of economic visibility, often blaming herself for not being able to bear more weight. Occasionally, she retreats into her shell, as if withdrawal were the only form of rebellion. But only when she upsets its balance will the world roll off her back.

Things unused burden and beset.

I hate France. It's like the whole country's on a diet

I don't think it's a good advert for any restaurant, a fat chef, and secondly, who wants to eat a dessert when the chef's a fat pig.

Carry sunshine with you, Brother, as you go; Cheerfulness will lighten Many a weight of woe. Angels guard the pathway Darkened by our fears, Sunshine makes a rainbow Even of our tears.

All bicycles weigh fifty pounds. A thirty-pound bicycle needs a twenty-pound lock. A forty-pound bicycle needs a ten-pound lock. A fifty-pound bicycle doesn't need a lock.

Chocolate is an antidepressant, which is especially useful as you start to gain weight.

I lied on my Weight Watchers list. I put down that I had 3 eggs… but they were Cadbury chocolate eggs.

The emotional weight of clutter crushes our souls and our lives.

If you really want to be depressed, weigh yourself in grams.

My ideal weight is moobless.

I keep trying to lose weight — but it keeps finding me!

The older you get, the tougher it is to lose weight, because by then your body and your fat are really good friends.

Childhood is that wonderful time of life when all you need to do to lose weight is take a bath.

Calories, n, pl. Tiny creatures that live in your closet and sew your clothes a little bit tighter every night.

I'm on a 90-day wonder diet. Thus far, I've lost 45 days.

The biggest seller is cookbooks and the second is diet books — how not to eat what you've just learned how to cook.

The love that makes you feel light as a feather is the love that makes your heart feel heaviest when it goes.

He was a large, fleshy man, weighing at least two hundred pounds, and he quickly became a faithful representation of a quivering jelly mountain of fat.

Want a vivid image of how American bodies have changed? The average American woman now weighs around 165 pounds. According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), that's essentially what the average American man weighed in 1960. (Today's average man is around 195 pounds.)111 Americans were once the tallest people in the advanced industrial world. We are now not just among the shortest but also far and away the heaviest.

An awkward silence descended between us. Where did that phrase come from? I wonder. Silence descended . Descended from where exactly? Was it hovering over us like the alien spaceship in Independence Day ? Maybe it wasn't really silence so much as it was the smothering weight of something unsaid, words we'd kept at bay, kept in the air, by talking about other things.

The depression we find ourselves in here, and which is causing havoc in America, is allowing people to give weight to that which divides them, rather than to the shared experiences and elements of connection they see mirrored in their fellow man.