Quotes About Moderation

I don't believe in diets. They don't necessarily work. What they do is scrub your weight down, but as soon as you finish, you naturally go back up. I keep everything in my diet - gluten and sugar - I just cut it down a little bit and train more. It's not rocket science.

I was raised to believe you eat hamburgers, mashed potatoes and gravy, and cheesecake for dessert. In California they eat tofu burgers, fat-free applesauce and cake with no sugar. Hopefully, in between, there's a happy medium for me.

Whenever I meet with nutritionists, we discuss the idea of having everything in moderation and that people should eat protein or fiber when they eat sugar.

I do like my sugar at night, but I try to keep it to a minimum.

If people try to cut sugar out completely, they often splurge later. That isn't a good idea.

Cut a balance: eat well and then have your sugar fix. Everything in moderation.

Dark chocolate can be good for you, and when I say 'can,' it's about what type of dark chocolates are you eating. Don't eat the dark chocolate with too much sugar.

I don't believe in extreme diets. For me, staying away from sugar and processed foods, eating home-cooked meals and exercising regularly is the key.

I'm all for a healthy diet. I don't eat junk very often, and I try not to have too much sugar or refined carbohydrate. But I don't mince my words or try to elevate people's perceptions of my diet into something snobbish and superior-sounding.

I would not suggest that people skip meals. Instead, compensate with eating in lesser portions.

Balance has never been my strong suit.

I don't smoke, I don't drink much, I don't eat red meat. I stay out of the sun.

When I'm working and I eat healthily all week, then I give myself one day - usually Sunday - when I eat just what I want. You have to; otherwise, your mind goes a little nutso.

I used to like to go out when I was younger; I would go out and have a few beers then go training on Sunday which probably wasn't the best thing to do.

Eating, too, has been turned away from its true nature: want on the one hand and superfluity on the other have troubled the clarity of this need, and all the profound, simple necessities in which life renews itself have similarly been obscured.

The people are to be taken in very small doses.

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?

People are to be taken in very small doses. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

I am thankful for small mercies. I compared notes with one of my friends who expects everything of the universe, and is disappointed when anything is less than the best, and I found that I begin at the other extreme, expecting nothing, and am always full of thanks for moderate goods.

If thou fill thy brain with Boston and New York, with fashion and covetousness, and wilt stimulate thy jaded senses with wine and French coffee, thou shalt find no radiance of wisdom in the lonely waste of the pinewoods.

We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.

A pesar de ser baja en calorías es capaz de satisfacer al más goloso, y por ello es ideal como bocado para quienes están cuidando los centímetros de más.

Too much of anything isn't good for anyone.

Too much of anything isn't good for anyone.