Diet - Quotes & Sayings

If you hunger for certain types of clothes, for which you have little use, put yourself on a diet. Just as you resist too much whipped cream and French pastry to keep your figure in shape, you can say no to those yearned-for but unneeded purchases that lead to a wardrobe that is shapeless and without form.

Edith Head

I am fussy, about my diet and straining my voice. I know, sounds a bit over the top. But I'm not as bad as I used to be. These days I don't drink alcohol for five days before a show - very dehydrating for the vocal cords, and all that acid reflux. I used to ban it for a fortnight. Nightmare.

Katherine Jenkins

I'm not perfect, but what's wonderful about eating a plant-based diet is, I don't have to be.

Victoria Moran

Life is too short to be on a diet.

Taylor Jenkins Reid

I try to get a well-balanced diet with a mix of greens, protein, and carbs.

Hilary Knight

If you're trying to diet, what do you do? You grab your two friends and say, 'We're going to the gym; let's do this together.' Money shouldn't be any different. If you're trying to make progress, if you're trying to save more, we really need to be able to get support.

Alexa Von Tobel

Calories from protein affect your brain, your appetite control center, so you are more satiated and satisfied.

Mark Hyman

Diet Coke is the only way I get through filming because I get so tired.

Lily James

I always recommend a sensible diet, including lots of carbohydrates and avoiding too much fat. Dancers don't need different fuel from other people - they just need more of it because they use more energy.

Deborah Bull

The longest-lived people eat a plant-based diet. They eat meat but only as a condiment or a celebration. Nothing they eat has a plastic wrapper.

Dan Buettner

I followed the same diet for 20 years, eliminating starches, living on salads, lean meat, and small portions.

Gene Tierney

Getting a moral lecture from the fashion industry is like Jeffrey Dahmer criticising your diet.

Charlie Brooker

If I could have a Barbie body, which has no cellulite, I totally would. I would like to have a flatter stomach, but that won't happen either. That is never going to happen. No matter how much weight I lose, my stomach, below the belly button, always pooches out.

Holly Madison

A diet that is high in fat, sugar and salt makes it really hard for a body to function efficiently.

Tamra Davis

I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.

Mae West

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

Benjamin Franklin

I always had a sense that I would fall in love with Tokyo. In retrospect I guess it's not that surprising. I was of the generation that had grown up in the '80s when Japan was ascendant (born aloft by a bubble whose burst crippled its economy for decades), and I'd fed on a steady diet of anime and samurai films.

Junot Diaz

Diseases happen in acidic environments, so it's very important to keep your body alkaline. Keeping a diet high in leafy greens, spring water, fresh air, raw almonds, lemons, grapefruits, and warm water with juice from half a lemon helps lower acidity levels.

Valentina Zelyaeva

My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.

Orson Welles

The very fact that we are having a national conversation about what we should eat, that we are struggling with the question about what the best diet is, is symptomatic of how far we have strayed from the natural conditions that gave rise to our species, from the simple act of eating real, whole, fresh food.

Mark Hyman

The only way you get that fat off is to eat less and exercise more.

Jack LaLanne

Such lifestyle factors such as cigarette smoking, excessive alcohol consumption, little physical activity and low dietary calcium intake are risk factors for osteoporosis as well as for many other non-communicable diseases.

Gro Harlem Brundtland

I work out like a maniac, three times more than anything I did in the past. I am off carbs, salt, sweets, and live on a fish diet. And I promise I am not going to indulge in food again. See, when I was 49 years old, I was fine, but the moment I touched 50, I felt that something within me had changed drastically. My metabolic rate dropped.

Sanjay Dutt

There is really no room in any healthy diet for trans fat, artificial sweeteners, and artificial colors in food.

Jillian Michaels

I like having my hair and face done, but I'm not going to lose weight because someone tells me to. I make music to be a musician not to be on the cover of Playboy.

Adele

The human body is a miraculous self-healing machine, but those self-repair systems require a nutrient-dense diet.

Joel Fuhrman

And let's be clear: It's not enough just to limit ads for foods that aren't healthy. It's also going to be critical to increase marketing for foods that are healthy.

Michelle Obama

My interesting diet tips are eat early and don't nosh between meals. I mean, I can pack it away.

Carol Burnett

Simply switching to a healthy, plant-based diet can lessen stroke risk by reducing cholesterol and blood pressure, flooding your body with antioxidants and improving blood flow.

Michael Greger

You take the healthiest diet in the world, if you gave those people vitamins, they would be twice as healthy. So vitamins are valuable.

Robert Atkins

There's no reason to think that you'll be capable of loyalty to a diet until you address your basic disloyalty toward yourself.

Marianne Williamson

Pizza is no longer on my diet.

John Catsimatidis

Want to learn to eat a lot? Here it is: Eat a little. That way, you will be around long enough to eat a lot.

Tony Robbins

I try to not eat as much sugar, but it's so hard in our American diet to do that... It's hard to completely avoid.

Tom Brady

I eat steak primarily. That's pretty much what my diet consists of. Sometimes I supplement that with other steaks.

Jocko Willink

There were years when I was a beer and tequila guy, then I got real fat. And then I found that you could actually go on a diet and drink scotch. Then I got hooked on scotch, and if you get hooked on scotch, then everything else just tastes wrong.

Ron White

The choices you make each day in your diet and lifestyle have a direct influence on how your genetic predisposition is expressed - for better and for worse. You're only as old as your genes, but how your genes are expressed may be modified by exercise, diet and lifestyle choices much more than had previously been believed - and more quickly.

Dean Ornish

I've never been a huge sweets eater, and I've always loved a Mediterranean diet. We eat a lot of dark leafy greens, and a couple meals each week are meat-free. We enjoy eating a balanced diet.

Rachael Ray

The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.

Jackie Gleason

I thought that losing weight by following a strict diet will make me more flexible and feel more confident about my body. I have become so used to the routine now and have fallen in love with my body that I would want to follow it forever.

Amruta Khanvilkar

People need to eat whole food plant foods, primarily... whole grains, fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds. That diet supports our lives. We ought to live to be 90 or 100 without getting any diseases.

John Mackey

Cereal eating is almost a marker for a healthy lifestyle. It sets you up for the day, so you don't overeat.

Bruce Barton

I am a pure vegetarian, and I'm much healthier compared to those who live on a non-veg diet.

Sangram Singh

A significant number of research studies have documented that heart disease is easily and almost completely preventable through a diet rich in plant produce and lower in processed foods and animal products.

Joel Fuhrman

Living on hypocrisy is not a healthy diet for patriots.

Tom Tancredo

A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.

Erma Bombeck

But if you pick up every other magazine, it is the peanut butter diet, or the cabbage soup diet, and then you go to the radio and you hear that you can drink some solution and you will lose weight overnight. It just does not work that way!

Richard Simmons

When I'm getting ready for a movie, let's just say my diet is 'The Antisocial Diet.' I don't go to restaurants. I don't eat what I really want to eat. I don't eat much. I eat small things frequently. Lots of protein and greens. And I don't eat with people, because there's a tendency to get social and then to overeat.

Jason Statham

I don't eat junk foods and I don't think junk thoughts.

Peace Pilgrim

The astounding variety of foods on offer in the modern supermarket obscures the fact that the actual number of species in the modern diet is shrinking. For reasons of economics, the food industry prefers to tease its myriad processed offerings from a tiny group of plant species, corn and soybeans chief among them.

Michael Pollan