Quotes About Weight

the more greens you eat, the more weight you will lose.

for the vast majority of people, being overweight is not caused by how much they eat but by what they eat. The idea that people get heavy because they consume a high volume of food is a myth. Eating large amounts of the right food is your key to success and is what makes this plan workable for the rest of your life.

We observed a direct relationship between body weight and mortality. By that I mean that the thinnest fifth of men experienced the lowest mortality, and mortality increased progressively with heavier and heavier weight.

a 5'10 male should weigh approximately 155 pounds.

our goal should be the opposite: to eat less, only as much as we need to maintain a slim and muscular weight, and no more, so as to keep our metabolic rate relatively slow.

optimal weight, as determined by who lives the longest, occurs at weights at least 10 percent below the average body-weight tables.

If you want to lose weight, the most important foods to avoid are processed foods: condiments, candy, snacks, and baked goods; fat-free has nothing to do with it.

By my calculations, it is not merely 70 percent of Americans who are overweight, it is more like 85 percent.

Diets don't work, and they're terrible for our health.

the more of these healthy green vegetables (both raw and cooked) you eat, the healthier you will be and the thinner you will become.

Medication is the accepted treatment—even though it is often the medication itself causing more weight gain, worsening symptoms, and making individuals more diabetic.

Even for people who are overweight, I recommend one ounce of raw, unsalted seeds or nuts per day, such as sesame seeds, sunflower seed, flaxseeds, pumpkin seeds, walnuts, pistachio nuts, or almonds.

Unfortunately, this focus on macronutrients over micronutrients diverts attention away from understanding optimal nutrition in a complete and effective manner. Many people worry about their weight, but almost everybody—even the person who carefully monitors caloric intake—neglects their health.

The number one health problem in the United States is obesity, and if the current trend continues, by the year 2048 all adults in the United States will be overweight or obese.1

Measuring portions and trying to eat fewer calories, typically called "dieting," almost never result in permanent weight loss and actually worsen the problem over time. Such "dieting" temporarily slows down your metabolic rate, so often more weight comes back than you lost. You wind up heavier than you were before you started dieting. This

We see then that the glory of the Lord is everything that makes God, God. All His characteristics, authority, power, wisdom-literally the immeasurable weight and magnitude of God-are contained within God's glory.

Now, if a good man cannot do good things with that oneness and universalness of mind, as a wicked man doth sin with, then is his sin heavier to weigh him down to hell than is his righteousness to buoy him up to the heavens.

She was Mattie Tucker now, mother of three and a good forty pounds heavier, casting that burning eye over them all, reaching way back for a southern pleasantry that was more like a Halloween apple with a razor blade in it: 'Well, don't y'all make just the perfect family of four?

Exercise, lose weight, test your blood sugar, or whatever. Do it without motivation and then guess what. After you start doing the thing, that's when the motivation comes and makes it easy for you to keep on doing

The rain falls because the cloud can no longer handle the weight. The tears fall because the heart can no longer handle the pain.

What does it matter, if you let go? For the weight that is on you means nothing and never meant anything.

If you want fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down!

Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness

I had had an extroverted personality with a lot of friends, but when I lost the weight and grew so tall, I withdrew within myself.