Quotes About Struggle

It's hard for me to put on weight.

I think a lot of people think because I was getting the divorce, that was really the catalyst for gaining so much weight.

I'm excellent at losing weight, but I've never been excellent at maintenance. I have some better days than others in terms of being hypervigilant, but with maintenance you don't know if you've been good at it until you're done.

Ever since I was little, I loved to eat. I started eating when I wasn't hungry. My weight has always been up and down.

It's the weight of expectation that's the hardest to deal with, really, from my point of view.

When I look back to when I had my first son, I was unhappy. I couldn't understand why the weight wasn't just falling off.

At 9 years old I weighed about 10 lbs. less than what my weight is at 32. I needed to get help.

For many years, I struggled with how I felt about myself. I hid and harbored very self-destructive eating issues, namely anorexia, which at its worst caused me to lose half of my hair and brought my weight down dramatically.

I've definitely had obstacles in my career - my whole entire career - to stay a certain weight, to get smaller than I have been, but I look at my family, I look at where I come from and that's not really in our genes.

My weight has been an emotional roller-coaster for me, and I am ready to get off it.

Once I started looking for a record deal, I had a trainer. And the trainer told me that I would never sell a record if I didn't lose weight.

I have serious adult acne, am almost legally blind and have to work at controlling my weight.

I had spent my entire career not wanting to talk about weight, not wanting to deal with it, wanting to be an actor first.

All my life I've had a weight problem. As a child, I loved to eat. I would hide from my mother and drink whole cans of condensed milk in my room.

I got to L.A., and they said I had to lose weight, let my hair grow and buy some dresses. I was nailing auditions with my readings, but they wouldn't hire me because I wasn't putting on the glam. It just didn't occur to me.

I think people really connect with the idea of someone who's gained and lost weight in this very public way, and also someone who's an emotional eater.

Some of my battles with weight have been very public. But most of them have been internal. Even at my thinnest, when my body was being praised, I wasn't happy with what I saw in the mirror or how I felt about myself.

Being in the dark, there's a real weight to it. It's heavy.

I've battled my weight since I was 12. My parents took to us to New York once, for a holiday, and there I'd buy fruit loops from a 24x7 shop and sit down with my books. I never played; I wasn't that kind of kid - I just read. I ate chocolates like peanuts. I was 86kg till I was 19.

It will not surprise you to learn that it is not uncommon for jockeys who struggle with their weight to starve themselves and spend hours in the sauna to lose a few pounds to be able to make a big-race ride.

When I started working out, it wasn't about weight loss; I was going through a really hard time and needed an emotional release. Once you start getting in the tabloids claiming you have fake body parts, then it's like, 'Okay, I made it. Now I'm really working out.'

The most important thing I want to get across is that maintaining weight loss is just hard. It takes a dedication to exercise and eating right most of the time.

There's a huge emotional component to weight loss.

I can remember I lost three and a half stone weight loss. It was painful, it was excruciating, it was hell. I had to exercise eight hours a day. It was very tiring, very exhausting. I came away seeing exercise as punishment.