DIET QUOTES

quotations about diets & dieting

I've been on a diet for two weeks, and all I've lost is 14 days.

TOTIE FIELDS

Woman's Day, Aug. 2011


The trouble with dieting is that a pound of will power takes off only an ounce of weight.

EVAN ESAR

20,000 Quips & Quotes


Diets are like boyfriends--it never really works to go back to them.

NIGELLA LAWSON

Sunday Times, March 5, 2006


Dear Diet,
Things just aren't going to work between us. It's not me, it's you. You're tasteless, boring & I can't stop cheating on you.

ANONYMOUS


As I see it, dieting is like going underwater and holding your breath. Eventually, you have to come up. And that's what dieting is like--it's like holding your breath underwater. Eventually you have to come to the surface, and when you do, you gasp for air and inhale all you can. It's the same way with trying to go without eating.

BILL PHILLIPS

Eating for Life


No disease that can be treated by diet should be treated with any other means.

MAIMONIDES

attributed, The Whole Foods Diet


They told me to diet
I promised I'd try it
Yet somehow my weight would not budge
Each Metrecal cookie
To me tasted kooky,
So I covered it with hot fudge

ALLAN SHERMAN

"Little Butterball", Allan in Wonderland


Just think of all those women on the Titanic who said, "No thank you" to desert that night. And for what?

ERMA BOMBECK

attributed, A Year of Living Sinfully


I'm on a seafood diet. I see food, and I eat it.

ANONYMOUS


Dieting fooled you into thinking you could control your life.

JEFFREY EUGENIDES

The Marriage Plot


Diets show to what great lengths women will go so as not to go to great widths.

EVAN ESAR

20,000 Quips & Quotes


Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.

MICHAEL POLLAN

In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto


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

MARGARET MEAD

attributed, The Inside Tract


I am a better person when I have less on my plate.

ELIZABETH GILBERT

Eat


Dieting is like living on a "calorie budget". You can spend your "income" on anything you'd like, including carbohydrates, fat and protein, but when you've used up your budgeted allocation you can't add more to your budget for that time period.

EDWARD J. COATES

Measured Success!


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

ERMA BOMBECK

attributed, On Being Blonde: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Most Infamous Blondes


Mark what and how great blessings flow from a frugal diet; in the first place, thou enjoyest good health.

HORACE

attributed, Day's Collacon


You don't have to be emaciated or vomiting to be suffering. All people who live their lives on a diet are suffering.

PORTIA DE ROSSI

Unbearable Lightness


DIET RULE #1: If nobody sees you eating it, it doesn't contain any calories.

ANONYMOUS


Stop rewarding yourself with food. You are not a dog.

ANONYMOUS