“Weight Watchers is not intimidating. It's not a diet. It's a lifestyle.”
Diet culture promises transformation but often delivers guilt. These quotes take a broader view — covering nutrition, health, willpower, and the complicated relationship most of us have with food and the bodies we live in.
“Environmental concern is a little like dieting or paying off credit-card debt - an episodically terrific idea that burns brightly and then seems to fade when we realize there's a reason we need to diet or pay down our debt. The reason is that it's really, really hard, and too many of us in too many spheres of life choose the easy over the hard.”
“Weight Watchers is not intimidating. It's not a diet. It's a lifestyle.”
“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.”
“A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.”
“I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.”
“What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.”
“Right now I'd love to be sitting on a Greek island somewhere because of being Greek American, eating great octopus salad and some fantastic lamb. Or sipping a little ouzo. I think the Mediterranean diet is one of the healthiest... Lots of nuts, vegetables, fruits, fresh fish, lean meats, yogurt.”
“I try not to diet because it never really works for me, if I tell myself I can't eat something then I tend to want to eat everything in sight.”
“My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.”
“For four to six months at a time, I would barely eat. I lived on a diet of Melba toast, carrots, and black coffee.”
“A safe and nutritionally adequate diet is a basic individual right and an essential condition for sustainable development, especially in developing countries.”
“The one thing I like about 'Playboy' is they don't have the anorexic look. The women are voluptuous. So I didn't really want to diet. I just wanted to tone up.”
“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.”
“I'm on the Sensa diet. It's a little magic powder based on Dr. Hirsh's clinical trials and studies and it basically signals the brain that you're full through smellology.”
“It's my firm intention to whop cancer into submission and I truly believe I've given myself the best start possible by radically overhauling my diet and by staying true to my motto, which is: Don't worry, be happy, feel good. The first thing I did when I was diagnosed was to turn vegan.”
“We always think of a diet with a big groan. But I think diets are fun. I think it is an American pastime for a lot of women.”