Although I do have advantages in the division, 154 pounds is getting kind of tough to make.
You see your peers weighing 80 pounds and you think, ‘Oh, my God, I’ve got to be 80 pounds or I’ll fail.’
When you see your friends going out every Friday night, and earning two hundred quid at the building site, and you’re earning twenty-five pounds at Arsenal, and you have to stay in every Thursday, Friday, you know it is hard.
Juice fasting destroys your metabolic rate. I see a lot of women who are like, ‘Oh, I lost seven pounds and then I gained 10.’ That’s not what detoxification is about.
I’m not a machine. I get really motivated, then I fall off the wagon and want to eat Chinese food and sit on my couch and gain five or 10 pounds!
I’m one of those guys who would like to weigh about 115 pounds for a couple of hours in the afternoon and then go back to my own size about 5 o’clock.
I’ve caught fish as big as I am. I’ve caught marlin close to 300 pounds.
When I was 16 years old, I weighed 176 pounds.
Toward the end of my pregnancy, I felt really big – I gained about 40 pounds, which is a lot for my size.
But I’m 185 pounds and 5’8′. I can’t be a powerhouse, I can’t be powerbombing people everywhere. That doesn’t make sense.
Back in 1960 at Christmas time, I did work loading and unloading boxcars for Railway Express. That was a kind of weight training that helped me. I weighed about 160 when I started. I began to gain weight and kept right on gaining until I reached 195 pounds.
Go back and watch my old footage, man. Go back and watch my old fights. I knocked people out at 170 pounds.
I was 103 pounds for 12 years, and what’s crazy is that I actually wanted to weigh 100. Honestly, it was for no other reason than the fact that I thought it would be cool to say that I weighed 100 pounds.
My dream is to be the best fighter at 155 pounds in the world.
Sometimes good work is done with passion, enthusiasm – presence can be as valuable as many millions of pounds.
When I go to teach, that’s not my workout. It’s my show. I’m 134 pounds – I’m a teeny thing. I work out 11/2 hours a day and eat 1,600 calories. I can’t stray because I have to fit into these Dolfin shorts!
My parents are still married. They don’t weigh 350 pounds; they go to the gym all the time.
I’m probably not 100 pounds anymore, but around there. I definitely got obsessed with my weight. When I met my husband and realized that he could put on 50 pounds and I’d still love him, I realized that’s how he sees me or at least how he should!
The ‘Tough Man’ contests were for 21-year-olds, but I weighed 150 pounds at 13, so I got a fake ID card and entered. My dad and uncles had given me an edge, so having a boxing background made it easier because a lot of the older guys didn’t know how to fight.
You know how you feel when you get full? Well, I don’t get full. I can eat a lot. Mike and I were in Italy for 10 days, and I put on 8 pounds. So in real life, I have to make sure I’m not eating just to eat.
I can eat whatever I want, and I don’t get over 145 pounds. A lot of the guys who fight at 125 pounds, they get pretty big, and when it gets closer to the fight, they’re walking around at 135 pounds. For me, I try to stay the same weight I typically walk around at.
Most people think I’m from New York or something. I was, like, 70 pounds heavier than what I am, and I didn’t get no girls… I was definitely more on the deep fried crab than I was on the baked chicken side.
We estimated that we could make one of four cylinders with 4 inch bore and 4 inch stroke, weighing not over two hundred pounds, including all accessories.
Dropping 25 pounds was something I was unsure about. It seemed like a pointless adventure, in a way.
In my early days, I was about 145 pounds. I was really a starving artist; the poster child for starving artists.
A lot of fighters complain, ‘Man he’s five pounds heavier than me.’ Really? It doesn’t matter, man.
I’m open to fighting at 185 or 205 pounds, but I think I need to give this 185-pound run a real, honest crack. Being at this weight class has definitely made me into a different fighter.
I could eat absolutely whatever I want, whenever I want and I won’t really gain any weight. I’m going to be 25 in March, and I’ve never weighed over about 64 pounds in my entire life.
I mostly eat healthy. I just do. I’m not a vegan for health reasons – although obviously I’m 20 pounds lighter than when I started. I stayed 20 pounds lighter. I feel better. My friends say I look better. All that’s true. But I’m a vegan for compassionate reasons.
Every show is a mess at its first preview. No one’s had enough time to rehearse in costumes, traffic patterns backstage haven’t been worked out, machinery weighing thousands of pounds is being operated for the first time. And, also, it’s the first time all the material you’ve written is before the public.
I was completely unhealthy, obese, so I committed to running three miles every morning for six months and following a strict diet, and 100 pounds came off.
As a 16-year-old, I was 5-foot-5 and maybe 145 pounds. It was hard to believe a guy like that was going to make it to the big leagues.
I gained, I think, 65 pounds when I was pregnant. And I will say to moms out there, ‘Don’t stress about losing it. It will happen when it happens.’
I don’t worry about the camera adding pounds, I am who I am.
I realized that in those nine seasons I started out at about 225 pounds and I felt, you know, full figured fabulous woman but in those seasons I gained 75 pounds up to over 300 pounds all in front of the nation.
In Paris they have special wheelchairs that go through every doorway. They don’t change the doorways, they change the wheelchairs. To hell with the people! If someone weighs a couple more pounds, that’s it!
I got Type 1 diabetes at 30. It hit me in 1982 when I was a White House Fellow in Washington. I had viral pneumonia. I lost 35 pounds in six weeks. And I couldn’t see anything. Everything was blurry. I was always thirsty.
I’ve always been a big guy. I weighed 220 pounds in the 5th grade.
It is now common knowledge that the average American gains 7 pounds between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day.
I’d probably be the most unintimidating three-hole hitter in the league at 150 pounds.
I like eating fish and the thing is when I’m on a shoot, quite often the fish that I catch are bigger than me. Although I have a very healthy appetite I could normally eat about a pound of fish in a meal. I can’t eat 100 pounds of fish or 200 pounds of fish.
I had only played five games in my senior year in high school. I was not large enough. Hell, when I graduated, I was about five foot four and weighed 120 pounds. I didn’t go with the Dodgers until spring training of 1940 and I weighed all of 155 pounds soaking wet.
I freak out if I go a little too long without being in the gym. For a long time it was all about getting the weight off because I was 240 pounds at my heaviest, and now I’m around 175, so the majority of that weight loss was due to diet and exercise.
I definitely feel pressure to keep slim. I don’t want to be the guy who lost weight and gained it all back. But it’s hard. Sometimes I’ll gorge and gain nine pounds in a weekend somehow, and I get bummed about it.
There are many tough sides to being a jockey. Injury is something we all dread, but spending lengthy periods in the bath or the sauna just to shed a few pounds can be an exhausting and draining experience.
While we have agreed to pay the E.U. tens of billions of pounds in the Withdrawal Agreement, the Political Declaration that aimed to set out the principles for this future negotiation is a document deliberately vague to allow it to mean all things to all people.
It was later in life when I found out that I had thyroid issues and gained a ton of weight. I got up to 200 pounds.
Could you physically lose 10 pounds in 2 weeks? Maybe. But there’s no way you could do that in a healthy way or that you could maintain it.
I was in the Pritikin Center in Santa Monica once, trying to lose 30 or 40 pounds in a month. I’d work… on a treadmill and with the weights, but it was driving me nuts. So I escaped. Tom Arnold picked me up and we went to Le Dome and had tons of desserts.
The funny thing is, we teach – as a culture, we teach people that it’s OK to talk about your fitness goals… Like, I want to be more physically fit, I want to drop 10 pounds, but no one’s talking about how I can spend 10 days to get happier.
I was morbidly obese, 120 pounds overweight. It was just embarrassing. I’d be on stage feeling like I was about to collapse. I’d get dizzy spells.
I actually carried a Panavision Platinum and a G2 when I was seven months pregnant for a film called ‘Little Birds,’ and the whole movie was handheld. And we were shooting in the desert. That’s a 35-millimeter camera. It’s huge, probably at least 50, 55 pounds, and I did all my own operating.
My first opportunity in the UFC was to cut to 140 pounds. This was too tough for me, but by me going through that, it opened the door for a 145-pound division.
The crazy part, with all of the surgeries I had, I retained water from the IV fluids, and I gained 60 pounds. I was 247 pounds at my maximum. I couldn’t even touch my face because my joints were swollen. I was so big, it was ridiculous – just insane.
