quotations about diets & dieting
A natural person can achieve right diet because his instinct is in proper working order. He is satisfied with simple food; it is nutritious, tastes good, and is useful daily medicine. Food and the human spirit are united.
MASANOBU FUKUOKA
The One-Straw Revolution
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
JONATHAN SWIFT
Polite Conversation
Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow ye diet!
LEWIS C. HENRY
attributed, Quote Unquote
Dieting is like war. If a battalion of soldiers goes into battle with a great plan, but once they get to the battlefield decide to deviate from the plan without good reason, then that plan is no longer effective. No plan works if it isn't followed.
IAN SMITH
Extreme Fat Smash Diet
I'm already two years ahead on my daily fat allowance. I'm looking for skinny people to see if I can borrow theirs.
JO BRAND
attributed, The Mammoth Book of Comic Quotes
DIET TIP: Your pantes never get too tight if you don't wear any.
ANONYMOUS
A culture fixated 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.
NAOMI WOLF
The Beauty Myth
A balanced diet is chocolate in both hands.
ANONYMOUS
The promise of a diet is not only that you will have a different body; it is that in having a different body, you will have a different life. If you hate yourself enough, you will love yourself. If you torture yourself enough, you will become a peaceful, relaxed human being.
GENEEN ROTH
Women
I don't diet. I just don't eat as much as I'd like to.
LINDA EVANGELISTA
attributed, The Mammoth Book of Comic Quotes
It's never been true, not anywhere at any time, that the value of a soul, of a human spirit, is dependent on a number on a scale. We are unrepeatable beings of light and space and water who need these physical vehicles to get around. When we start defining ourselves by that which can be measured or weighed, something deep within us rebels.
GENEEN ROTH
Women, Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything
I hate France. It's like the whole country's on a diet.
GORDON KORMAN
One False Note
Diets are like medicine. They should not be given to those for whom they are not prescribed.
MARGARET FINLEY
Good Eating
Dieting is long-haul. Many rapid weight loss programs actually only squeeze the water out of you. Just like a wet sponge. But a good dieter maintains his or her grip on that sponge, not letting it soak up water again.
OWEN JONES
Aspects of Dieting
More diets start in dress shops than in doctors' offices.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
She'd even violated the only sensible rule of dieting she'd ever run across, the sage advice of the Muppets' Miss Piggy, who recommended never eating anything bigger than your head.
SUSAN DONOVAN
He Loves Lucy
Dieting is easy. It's like riding a bike. Except the bike is on fire. And the ground is on fire. And everything is on fire because you're in hell.
ANONYMOUS
Food is fuel, not therapy.
ANONYMOUS
Stop dieting, start living.
BARBARA GODFREY
Stop Dieting
Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose!
KARL LAGERFELD
attributed, The Little Book of Thin