I was muscular – I was never overweight. But tell a girl that she has to lose 15 pounds when she’s not fat, and that has destroyed a lot of who I am over the years, even still. In my mind I’m thinking, ‘I’m always too heavy. I should be a skinny thing.’
I have my meals delivered… you know what I like? Chicken and rice… But the problem with being a defensive lineman is, if we get out of hand with our eating, we balloon up to, like, 300-some pounds. So I really got to watch what I eat.
Being 230 pounds, a lot of people don’t think you can move the way I need to move, so that is just all the hard work I put into my legs and working on my speed and my legs.
We haven’t sat down with Scott and Caroline and said, Now you realize that there’s X amount of pounds of thrust. And this can happen and that can happen.
We pay millions of pounds to separate Catholic and Protestant children, and even more millions on attempting to bring them together as adults. You can’t make someone fear another person if they shared a desk for seven years.
I have a wonderfully hedonistic appetite, and if I wasn’t really strict with myself, I’d weigh 300 pounds. I’m not good with moderation.
I wasn’t like those girls who give birth and are back on the runway. It took me probably six months to gain 45 pounds and I would say it took me double that time to lose it.
I’m used to compete at 135 pounds, and I know I will always be shorter than my opponents.
Guys like me can put on 10-15 pounds in a week.
I love spaghetti. And I like to cook spaghetti. And I used to eat it every day. I weighed thirty pounds more than I do now. You can’t – you can’t do that.
I had a lot of my success due to appearing at the Garden. I wrestled there over 200 times, it’s where I won the title, and it’s where I picked up 630-plus pounds of Haystacks Calhoun.
I lose anywhere up to 20 pounds on location with adventurers like Conrad Anker or Brady Robinson. So I need to replace that lost weight and muscle by training hard when I am back in the States between jobs. And as I get older, it is far more important for me to be doing this and taking my conditioning seriously.
I was a goalkeeper at Crewe as a kid but piled on pounds when I stopped training every day.
There is an old adage that the quickest way to drop your tax take is to increase taxes. If capital gains tax is going to be 50 percent, my contingent capital gains tax is going to be 250 million pounds.
What better way to work out than by the beach with my pup, Gucci? We power walk a bit, take in the beautiful beach air and constantly stop for some water so that all 5 pounds of him doesn’t over-heated!
Basically, what happened was, I had moved out to Los Angeles, I was pretty damn lazy and I put on some pounds.
‘Moving Pictures’ still makes me get into a groove; I love the way it feels. But I’m not nostalgic for old times. I’d love to have that hair again and be 40 pounds lighter, but it’s a tradeoff.
I’m getting fat… because my size, I put on 20 or 30 pounds, it doesn’t show very much… I’m thinking about going back to work out in a very short time.
I’m around 6’4′ and 240 pounds. So I rarely feel that intimidated by other men. But I’ve got to give it up to Terry Bradshaw. That guy is a complete bulldog.
At a moderate calculation, among a million of persons inhabiting the metropolis, there are, at least, twenty-five thousand children who attend these schools, and cost their parents as many pounds sterling, per annum.
The overall physical demand that Iraq has is pretty amazing. It’s 130 degrees, and the soldiers are carrying about 100 pounds of extra gear. It’s a pretty rigorous schedule and routine for them.
Decathletes have to train for every event: sprints one day, field events the next. You pump up to make yourself strong enough to throw? Try pole vaulting at 250 pounds. There are 32 guys in most decathlons, and they’re in 32 little track meets.
Sometimes I wish I could just fight at 155 pounds.
When I found out I had to take off my shirt in ‘Teen’ movie, I panicked and hit the gym. I was like, ‘It’s going to be on film, documented, for my children to see. I can’t be 140 pounds. I need to put on a little bit of muscle.’
I want people, when they remember me, to think of the Hall of Pain, when I was catching guys, 275 pounds. Picking up Big Show, close to 500 pounds, over my head and driving him through a table.
I’m trying to make better choices, and for me, this is kind of a rebirth. If I make the Olympic team? Great. If not, look at myself after eight years and ballooning up almost 200 pounds and getting on ‘The Biggest Loser.’ You know what? I get my life back again, and that’s what truly mattered to me.
Julius Peppers is a beast, man. I don’t know how many pounds he outweighs me by… I still try to do things like him to make my game better.
I’m a computer guy, and one of the things I did with the good fortune that ‘Presumed Innocent’ brought me was to buy one of the very first laptop computers. It weighed about eight and a half pounds, by the way.
I gained 60 pounds during my pregnancy, but I didn’t say, ‘I want to lost 10 pounds every month!’ Instead, I said, ‘I will lose two to three pounds.’ I eventually saw progress, and that made me work harder.
Chickens that are sold whole tend to be smaller in size, ranging between two and a half and five pounds, while chicken sold as parts generally comes from larger birds.
Candidates matter. Campaigns matter. ‘He can win’ or ‘She can’t win’ is up there with, ‘I’m going to lose 10 pounds, win the lottery, and live forever.’ Saying it does not make it so.
A charity donkey is where you sponsor a donkey in a sanctuary and give them three pounds a month to have some donkey nuts or something.
In high school, the fastest I ever ran was like a 4.67; that’s pretty fast. But then, I only weighed 168 pounds.
When I grew up in France, I was a normal size. And then I came to the United States and I gained 20 pounds.
At 285 pounds, I was extremely strong, and it was all usable strength that I could direct against opponents, not like that of a weightlifter, whose feats of power are all restricted.
I really liked the transition Demian Maia made from 185 pounds to 170. I plan on doing the same thing as a featherweight.
I adore art… when I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear.
I accept my body, whether it fluctuates 10 pounds. I love it regardless.
I don’t think so, in that Virgin is already a global brand. Brands like Amazon have had to spend hundreds of millions of pounds you know, building their brands, whereas Virgin is already well-known around the world.
My dad was a big man – six-foot-seven and 300 pounds – and very strong.
I put on close to 60 pounds for ‘Genesis,’ an independent movie from New Zealand.
My costumes are the same measurements they were when I was 19, 20 years old. I eat pizza and ice cream, but whenever I gain three or four pounds, that sets off a red alarm.
In the end, someone is depending on me to show up on their set looking a specific way, whether that’s 40 pounds overweight or 40 pounds underweight – or looking like a stripper.
It will not surprise you to learn that it is not uncommon for jockeys who struggle with their weight to starve themselves and spend hours in the sauna to lose a few pounds to be able to make a big-race ride.
I used to be a very, very heavy weight lifter. I weighed about 210, 215. And I used to put a lot of weight on my back. I squatted over 500 pounds.
Because so many employers refuse to pay their workers a wage on which they can live – most Britons languishing below the poverty line are in work – the state has to spend billions of pounds a year on in-work benefits.
The tailor from ‘Avatar’ actually made my suit for ‘Uncharted 3.’ And no, it’s not a hand-me-down from Sam Worthington. My 11-year-old would fit in Sam Worthington’s. I’m 6′ 1″, 180 pounds.
Our company sells about five to six million pounds of sausage a year. We sell it retail and to restaurants. We’ve got all kinds of products.
If I have to be at work at five A.M., I will get up at three and work out. I run. I do weights. I’m very toned. I’m like every other woman. I’d love to be 10 pounds or 20 pounds lighter. If I’m not, I’m OK with that, too. I’m good as long as I’m healthy.
I believe in nonfat. I gain two pounds when I eat a lamb chop.
If you maintain a healthy diet, or at least are smart about your food choices, you’ll still see the pounds come off.
I’m a person who’s meant to be heavy, but I need to take off 50 pounds. Blood pressure. I’m gonna try Weight Watchers.
Music is almost like a therapy for me. It helps keep me centered and think straight. Before I discovered it, I was walking around, and it felt like there were 25 extra pounds of gravity on my shoulders. It’s like you’re mute or something.
We may never understand illnesses such as cancer. In fact, we may never cure it. But an ounce of prevention is worth more than a million pounds of cure.
I wish my parents hadn’t made me feel that how I looked was linked to how much they loved me. But I do also see how hard it must be to see your child pile on the pounds and trust they’ll find their own way back to a healthy weight.
I started doing a paper round when I was about 10. I started earning 10 pounds a week and then I was obsessed with earning money until I was about 15.
