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Quotes About Weight

Growing up in a household where something is terribly wrong, you feel the weight of that mysterious something even though it's unspoken. It eats at you. Confuses you. It leaves you wondering if your view of the world will ever make sense.
~ Diane Chamberlain
Wakings are the worst times - almost before my eyes are open a great weight seems to roll on to my heart.
~ Dodie Smith
Bloomberg weighed three hundred pounds. This itself was historical. I revered his weight. It was an affirmation of humanity's reckless potential; it went beyond legend and returned through mist to the lovely folly of history. To weigh three hundred pounds. What devout vulgarity.
~ Don DeLillo
You came and fell upon me, I was sitting in the wicker chair. The wicker exclaimed as your weight fell upon me. You were light, I thought, and I thought how good it was of you to do this. We'd never touched before.
~ Donald Barthelme
Here's a writing craft tool that you can remove from your toolbox and throw away: description. It's the stuff that most readers skim. Even when deftly done using the five senses it's a lead weight. It isn't needed anymore.
~ Donald Maass
And the daughter . Bit of a social failure. Well, that's putting it delicately. Quite overweight. Collects the cats, if you know what I mean.
~ Donna Tartt
When you climb the tower of a cathedral it becomes shorter, as a result of your added weight, by a very, very tiny amount, but it really does become shorter.
~ Unknown
A great alternative is green tea (hot or cold), which is a fat burner and helps you lose more weight while still allowing you to get your caffeine fix for the day.
~ Unknown
You can lose weight on 2,000 calories per day of clean, nutrient-rich foods and gain weight on 1,500 calories per day of junk food.
~ Unknown
thirty days of exercises supporting the strategies taught in the SUCCESS System to ensure you can create new habits and behaviors that create lasting and permanent weight
~ Unknown
History, lead-footed and relentless, weighed down the text.
~ Unknown
The sunlight lying on an acre of farm land weighs several tons, believe it or not.
~ Jack Finney
Bad enough I'm a goddamn burden to myself.
~ Jack Ketchum
You don't carry it around with you like a sackful of cinders.
~ Jack Ketchum
The only way you get that fat off is to eat less and exercise more.
~ Jack LaLanne
You can't get rid of it with exercise alone. You can do the most vigorous exercise and only burn up 300 calories in an hour. If you've got fat on your body, the exercise firms and tones the muscles. But when you use that tape measure, what makes it bigger? It's the fat!
~ Jack LaLanne
If you've got a big gut and you start doing sit-ups, you are going to get bigger because you build up the muscle. You've got to get rid of that fat! How do you get rid of fat? By changing your diet.
~ Jack LaLanne
Inflammation is the body's natural response to invaders. I already discussed this problem and how "leaky gut" will lead to weight gain. It may be more important to note that "leaky gut" will lead to major health issues because it causes chronic inflammation. Cancer, asthma, headaches, allergies, arthritis, auto-immune disorders, heart disease, diabetes, depression, Alzheimer's, and osteoporosis are all caused by chronic inflammation.
~ Unknown
La humanidad es pesada
~ Unknown
Getting healthy isn't just about losing weight. It's not limited to adjusting our diet and hoping for good physical results. It's about recalibrating our souls so that we want to change — spiritually, physically, and mentally. And the battle really is in all three areas.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
Yes, I want to lose weight. But this journey is so much more than just that. It really is about learning to tell myself no and learning to make wiser choices daily. And somehow becoming a woman of self-discipline honors God and helps me live the godly characteristic of self-control.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
Sometimes a phrase lands in your soul with such weight it leaves the deepest impression.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
We feel overweight physically but underweight spiritually.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
Yes, I've lost pounds and inches. But not being weighted down mentally and spiritually by the constant feeling of defeat is the real victory.
~ Lysa TerKeurst