When I’m playing with my band, I designate different parts to feel different things. The bass pounds in your chest when you go to a concert. It almost replaces your heartbeat. Then the drums you feel on the floor.
The thinnest I’ve ever been was after I had my appendix out, during the London run of The Seagull. I went down to 112 pounds and realized my brain doesn’t work when I’m that thin, so I can’t do my job. That’s why, when I came out here, I never had that whole Hollywood pressure thing.
Where is the indignation about the fact that the US and USSR have thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?
I have 40 pounds to lose. It is not the fault of the fast food people, and anyone who’s trying to sue the fast food places needs a therapist, not an attorney.
We are inhabited by as many as ten thousand bacterial species; these cells outnumber those which we consider our own by ten to one, and weigh, all told, about three pounds – the same as our brain.
When I was playing football, I was getting up to 240 pounds, and they wanted me to get to 260.
When I was 16 years old, I assembled a 2.3 million electron volt beta particle accelerator. I went to Westinghouse, I got 400 pounds of translator steel, 22 miles of copper wire, and I assembled a 6-kilowatt, 2.3 million electron accelerator in the garage.
I didn’t know what I was getting into when I went vegan, but so many things changed. I shed 30 pounds. I felt better. I was doing better mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. I was healing myself from the inside out.
I can gain 20 pounds in a heartbeat.
What I learned, a little too late, was that the ‘traditional’ Martin Short target viewer weighs under 300 pounds. Unfortunately, I was on during daytime.
My first pregnancy, I gained 75 pounds.
It’s better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week.
Given Pounds and five years, and an ordinary man can in the ordinary course, without any undue haste or putting any pressure upon his taste, surround himself with books, all in his own language, and thence forward have at least one place in the world.
I love it here, 145 pounds is my division.
I used to be really cute. I could send you earlier photos where I’m stunning. But I’ve gained about twenty pounds over the past two years, and the more weight I’ve put on, the more success I’ve had. If you drew a diagram of weight gain and me getting more work, a mathematician would draw some conclusions from that.
I lose 30 to 35 pounds each season. It’s tough work.
Weight was the thing I hyperfocused on. It went from me losing a few pounds to slowly over time losing more and more weight and becoming more and more focused on it.
My dad got an old bike for five pounds, re-sprayed it, made it look like a BMX and put big handlebars on it. I loved it.
I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn’t touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.
I’d get a shell, they weighed about 80 pounds I think, but when I was 19 or 20 that was nothing. I’d take a shell and a bag of powder, I’d put it in the hoist and then I would send it up to the gun.
I’m still a size 10, but it’s the toning that’s getting me down, and I think it can only get more difficult as I get older. Either one gets very thin and scrawny, or one puts on poundage; I’m definitely not going to pile on the pounds, so I can expect to end up scrawny.
When I was dressed as a clown in all that make-up I used to shed pounds every night and got agonising kidney stones because I was sweating so much.
There are few women in America that don’t want to lose 5 pounds, but I refuse to let that thought dominate my life. And there are too many other real problems in the world – real obesity problems and real hunger problems – to worry that much about a few pounds that I’d like to lose.
I actually lost 90 pounds over the course of 15 months in order to save money on life insurance.
Yes, some people say to me you’re too skinny, but never a skinny person says that to me, only people who could lose a few pounds say that.
As a kid, I’d eat at my mother’s house, then go down the road to my girlfriend’s and eat, and then sometimes go to my friend’s house and eat again. I could gain five pounds in a day. In a week, there wouldn’t be a scale to weigh me.
Being 300-some pounds is not always healthy. You can say what you want about it, I don’t want to do it.
I lost 100 pounds and embraced theater and music as what I was going to make for the rest of my life.
If you believe you can shed pounds quickly by force of will and deprivation, you will in all likelihood not only regain the ones you lost, but add a few more besides.
I made my first million pounds at the age of 26. As a little girl, I said I would retire when I had made my first million. The reality was different. When I did make it, I wanted to make another million, and another, and another after that.
I did kung fu up until two weeks before Benjamin was born, and yoga three days a week. I think a lot of people get pregnant and decide they can turn into garbage disposals. I was mindful about what I ate, and I gained only 30 pounds.
Sitting on that couch eating and gaining 20 pounds isn’t exactly fun – there’s only so much you can do.
I run into guys all the time that say, ‘Me and my three buddies started fat shaming each other and we collectively lost 130 pounds.’
We never did a lot of weights, but a lot of repetitions. The most I would use doing squats was 300 pounds.
Moving forward at 160 pounds, I feel like this where I should have been the whole time.
I was thin and didn’t realize how small I was – I was, like, 96 pounds when I got signed. You don’t want to be 96 pounds. It’s not attractive. I didn’t know how to do my hair and makeup. I was such a tomboy.
I’m secretly like 800 pounds and 90 years old.
When you’re, like, 190 pounds, dark-skinned, and a new artist that no one really cares about, people don’t really take the time to make you look beautiful.
I had a very long home birth. She was almost 10 pounds and did not want to come out.
If you’re not successful at a certain weight, it rarely has anything to do with gaining or losing 10 pounds. It’s something inside of you that you need to fix in order to win. It rarely has anything to do with cutting 10 pounds.
The focus around Circle China is really cross-border payments. If I’m a parent in China and my son is studying at London Business School, I might want to send 500 RMB. I should be able to do that and have my child instantly receive it as pounds sterling, in the same way people do that with instant messages today.
I never back down from a challenge and when I learned that a single drop of Krazy Glue was strong enough to hold up to 1,000 pounds, I knew I had to put the product’s strength to the test for myself.
It’s intimidating when you have to stand onstage amongst a bunch of men who are dedicated to maintaining peak musculature and athleticism, and they’re six-five, 240 pounds of twisted steel and sex appeal. It’s a lot to stand up to… My goal is to not look like Chris Farley.
I created my own charity called My Peak Challenge. We’ve been able to raise hundreds of thousands of pounds. It’s helping change people’s lives, and I’ve had lots of wonderful letters about it.
I don’t know what cancer did to me but I put on probably 10 pounds of muscle and got a lot stronger in the weight room and during our dry-land stuff.
What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more.
So many of the pleasures of recreational scuba diving don’t exist for the deep wreck diver. It’s not beautiful scenery for the most part; in fact, it’s usually very dark. It’s physically burdensome. These guys carry almost two hundred pounds of equipment, and should any of that equipment fail, they risk death.
Sometimes at 155 pounds I was the smaller fighter, at 145 pounds I am more often the bigger fighter, and the taller fighter.
Clothes that are too tight make you look bigger. If you’ve been trying to shed pounds, and it doesn’t go, buy the next size up. I never care what size my clothes are.
I definitely wouldn’t mind gaining a few more pounds at all.
I made my living being 20 or 30 pounds heavier than the average model. And that’s where I got famous.
I suppose the real cult things now are independent films made for a million pounds.
I know I’ve got to pay some tax, but I hate the fact that they collect millions of pounds a day from the congestion charge and I don’t see anything or anyone benefitting from it. Where are the new hospitals?
I lost 35 pounds before I did ‘I, Tonya’ and then I had to put it back on for that.
When I was in high school I was 250 pounds.
I’m 6-foot-4 and 240 pounds, which is average size in WWE, but in the world of television and movies, it’s huge.
My most string-beanish, I guess, is when I was 15 years old. From 15 to 16, I went from 155 pounds to 215. By the time I graduated from high school, I was between 235-250.
I was way behind physically in high school. They had weight bars that were about forty-five pounds. I couldn’t handle them. Couldn’t even put the weights on. It was embarrassing. So I always figured out ways to avoid lifting when I was young.
