Quotes About Weight

I can easily go up to 19 stone or so if I'm not careful.

I went on the pill when I was 16, put on four stone... so that proved to be a very effective contraceptive.

I've been nine stone for 20 years. I always eat what I want; it's not an issue for me.

When I graduated, I was my biggest ever: 15 stone, with a boyfriend - my first - of just 11 stone. I was 23 years old. It wasn't just affecting my career: it was a health issue as well.

I'm lucky: whatever I eat, I've never wavered from just under 14 stone.

I've never been a big person. I was about 14 stone when I was working, but when you go up to 18 stone then you know you've got issues.

My weight often fluctuates by half a stone.

When you are fighting a man who is over a stone heavier than you, you feel it. You feel it in the punches and in the clinches.

I get a pit in my stomach every time I think of that last attempt to make 155 for the Anthony Pettis fight. I just get this nasty feeling in my stomach, because no exaggeration, that was one of the scariest moments of my life. I remember that I couldn't stop my body from shaking.

I like dressing in designer clothes, and it's hard to buy them if you are overweight. And I got tired of, like, going in the stores, and then it was like I couldn't fit in anything. And overall, I wanted to be healthy.

The amazing thing is when people change nothing except removing major lectins, they start losing weight and they still are eating lots of calories, but we're not storing it as fat anymore.

If I put on a few pounds, it goes straight to my butt.

When you get fat, you get a new personality. You can't help it. Complete strangers ascribe it to you.

What difference does it make that pedestrian touch carries the weight of the body rather than the weight of the object?

They carried the sky. The whole atmosphere, they carried it, the humidity, the monsoons, the stink of fungus and decay, all of it, they carried gravity.

It was very sad, he thought. The things men carried inside. The things men did or felt they had to do.

Did you eat half an Oreo cookie? No problem. If you're a 220-pound male, you just need to climb 27 flights of stairs to burn it off.

If you want to be this brutally honest in the U.S., I suggest first reading my friend A.J. Jacobs's Esquire piece titled "I Think You're Fat.

Kettlebell windmills (or "high windmills") are incredible for hip rehab and "prehab." The standing position is similar to yoga's trikonasana, but you support 70 to 80% of your weight on one leg while you keep a kettlebell overhead. YouTube is your friend.

Fat-loss can produce transient elevated triglycerides (as it did with my dad, who lost 70+ pounds of fat), and I had lost substantial bodyfat in the preceding 21 days.

My point is that true leaders...understand the possible consequences of their decisions, and are willing to bear that weight. The question is whether that's a step you're willing to take." -Carlist Rieekan

I'm a survivor, " I said. But I didn't think that claim would carry much weight in an obituary.

There is nothing offensive about the word 'obese.' It is a descriptor of a person's weight.

We must try to understand the true weight of law enforcement officers' burdens.