Quotes on Dieting

Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.

A culture fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women’s history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one.

Eat, drink, and be merry for tomorrow we die.

Dieting makes me want to murder everyone around me.

In two decades I've lost a total of 789 pounds. I should be hanging from a charm bracelet.

You can't have a world where 50 percent of the people are dieting and 50 percent of the people are starving if you want stability.

Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose!

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

I tried every diet in the book. I tried some that weren't in the book. I tried eating the book. It tasted better than most of the diets.

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

I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead - not sick, not wounded - dead.

Gluttony is not a secret vice.

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.

When we give up dieting, we take back something we were often too young to know we had given away: our own voice. Our ability to make decisions about what to eat and when. Our belief in ourselves. Our right to decide what goes into our mouths. Unlike the diets that appear monthly in magazines or the thermal pants that sweat off pounds, unlike a lover or a friend or a car, your body is reliable. It doesn't go away, get lost, stolen. If you will listen, it will speak.

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.

No diet will remove all the fat from your body because the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain, you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office.

When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.

A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience.

It is easier to change a man's religion than to change his diet.

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