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Quotes About Weight

I have one of these bodies. When I was younger, I could never put weight on, and now that I'm a little older, there's a natural sort of chubbiness coming. But honestly, if I work out for a week, it drops off in no time.
~ Idris Elba
I'm not overweight, but I'm not in shape at all. I do not work out.
~ Lea Thompson
You're feeling the responsibility for hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people on your shoulder in a way that I couldn't feel as lieutenant governor.
~ William Scranton
If you can find a frock you look nice in and can run up three flights of stairs, you're not fat.
~ Caitlin Moran
With all the lead tape, my racquet is heavier than the model you're going to find off the rack. It's got most of its weight in the throat of the racquet; it's not too head-heavy. I don't like the feeling of a racquet that's so head-heavy I can't maneuver it around so well.
~ Kevin Anderson
I was a good 30 pounds overweight throughout high school, and it wasn't until I was going away to college that I really wanted to make sure I was doing everything possible to feel as confident as I could.
~ Daphne Oz
In high school, I was probably 155 - I wanted to run fast and get a scholarship, so, it was drilled in me that if you lose weight, you'll run faster. So, I went on a diet - I did lose weight, but then I hit a plateau where I couldn't lose any more weight. So, I started throwing my food up, so I became bulimic.
~ Bianca Belair
If I make 140, I sacrifice a lot of things in my life: my diet, my training, my thyroid. It's insane to make 140.
~ Cris Cyborg
I think people assume that having thyroid disease means you're older and overweight, but in reality, thyroid disease strikes at all ages and affects all sizes.
~ Gena Lee Nolin
I bike ride and swim but I don't exercise 'cos I like it. I do it because I've got a thyroid problem that can balloon my weight up to 20 stone if I stand still for five minutes.
~ Shaun Ryder
My weight blew up to 400 lbs and I couldn't bend down to tie my own shoelaces.
~ Shannon Briggs
When you drop weight, the closer you come to the fight, the more your muscles tighten up.
~ Amir Khan
There are too many ghosts walking this earth. They weigh heavy on the living.
~ Sally Gardner
I had all kinds of food issues, including health concerns and weight concerns.
~ Sally Schneider
If I go on a diet and work out, I'm always in a bad mood. I'd rather be a little heavier but nice.
~ Salma Hayek
These are the parts of him I find impossible to cut myself loose from. They are beautiful qualities. But beauty is heavy, and though I'm young I am getting tired from carrying around the bits and shreds of my father's beauty.
~ Samantha Hunt
I follow Nat up a large center stair. It feels familiar, like following Ruth only now I'm on my way back to El. Velocity equals gravity at last. I had to gain some weight and distance before I could fall back to her.
~ Samantha Hunt
Guilt has always its horrors and solicitudes; and, to make it yet more shameful and detestable, it is doomed often to stand in awe of those to whom nothing could give influence or weight but their power of betraying.
~ Samuel Johnson
Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat.
~ Samuel Johnson
Alas, that we should love by measure and weight, and not rather have floods and feasts of Christ's love! O, that Christ would break down the old narrow vessels of these narrow and ebb souls, and make fair, deep, wide, and broad souls, to hold a sea and a full tide, flowing over all its banks of Christ's love.
~ Samuel Rutherford
Books are heavy and dirty and messy and have strong smells and leave your skin dry and dusty.
~ Sara Gran
When is thirty is a fond memory, the more days that pass without exercise the worse you feel going back to it. Then too, I'm undisciplined in a way that makes it easier to exercise than to diet, and the running helps keep my weight down.
~ Sara Paretsky
My wife is so fat that the last time I saw something that big it was grazing.
~ Rodney Dangerfield
Much as I try to disguise myself, there is never a time when I'm not aware of being overweight.
~ Daphne Merkin