“I'm lucky, I don't like sweets, not even chocolate.”
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.
“When I was pregnant. I exercised and was healthy, but it was also the first time since I was 14 that I wasn't on a diet.”
“I'm lucky, I don't like sweets, not even chocolate.”
“I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.”
“If I like myself at this weight, then this is what I'm going to be. I don't have an eating disorder.”
“We are also in the process of defining how best to work together with food and other companies to address diet and physical activity factors in order to prevent chronic diseases.”
“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 try not to be but I'm super-neurotic about diet. I'm neurotic about trying not to be neurotic! I'm like every other girl. I have to try really hard my whole life to try to be fit. And I'm super-vain. And I want to wear cute clothes.”
“I have argued for years that we do not have a health care system in America. We have a disease-management system - one that depends on ruinously expensive drugs and surgeries that treat health conditions after they manifest rather than giving our citizens simple diet, lifestyle and therapeutic tools to keep them healthy.”
“I don't eat junk foods and I don't think junk thoughts.”
“I've tried just about every crazy diet you can imagine.”
“For so many years, I felt so insecure, so inferior, and I still have those moments, but I have a newfound confidence since I got in shape and changed my diet.”
“Sticking to a diet required me to have a permanently low self-esteem. But happily, I developed other skills beyond a fluctuating weight, eventually building up a different source of self-worth.”
“So, when it comes to eating healthy, it's just doing the right thing. And it's not something you have to do 365 days a year, but I think it's something you have to do 25 days a month. Let's put it that way.”
“Going meat-free can make a huge difference. Studies show that vegetarians are, on average, 10 to 20 pounds lighter than meat-eaters and that a vegetarian diet reduces our risk of heart disease by 40 percent and adds seven or more years to our lifespan.”
“In the 20 long, hungry years between my late teens and late 30s I bought in to virtually every new diet and/or exercise regime that hoved into view, particularly at this most vulnerable time for those of us prone to poor body image - a new year.”
“If you've got a big gut and you start doing sit-ups, you are going to get bigger because you build up the muscle. You've got to get rid of that fat! How do you get rid of fat? By changing your diet.”