In general, losing weight is a good thing for those who are overweight, but it’s important to lose weight in a way that enhances your health rather than one that may compromise it.
Socialism and communism fall of their own weight because, as Margaret Thatcher said, you run out of other people’s money. Because socialized medicine never falls of its own weight because you put people on lists, and they die waiting to get the treatment and care. So you don’t go broke.
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!
Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh.
It’s a massive undertaking putting an album together… It’s not light weight at all.
A measuring jug is also vital when cooking rice, as this is always measured by volume rather than by weight.
I thought, well, you might see curves there, but that’s just a bone – so even if I lose weight that’s not going to change anything. That’s how I look. That’s my shape. Do the math.
If I could eat without gaining weight or getting unhealthy, I would eat all the time.
There are many artists who feel that in order to move forward in their careers, they have to lose a drastic amount of weight.
The whole thing of weight, I guess it’s because there is a wider fascination we all have with weight.
I must be the only person in ‘Strictly’ history who’s actually put on weight during rehearsals.
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.
When I lost my weight, I went and bought about 15 different types of underwear to see what would look good on my new body. It’s exciting!
We decided we don’t use the term ‘fat’ for me. We use the term ‘juicy’ for me. My wife’s fine with it, but the rule is when I’m over double her weight, it’s over.
It was when my American coach Dan Pfaff came over from the States in 2009 and started working with me that we really began to look at my diet. He decided I was eating too many carbohydrates, so I cut back on bread. Over the next year I lost weight and became leaner.
Never order food in excess of your body weight.
Weight is just not a hot button. In fact, during my life, it probably should have been on my radar screen a bit more. I look back at work photos and am shocked. Was I eating the people I was interviewing?! Good Lord, I was big.
We sometimes hear the argument, ‘All the world’ thinks this, or does that, given as a reason for our doing likewise; but that is an argument that should have no weight with the Christian, who is commanded not to be conformed to the world.
I try to avoid gaining weight as much as possible because it hinders my performance onstage. Touring demands so much energy.
An illustration is a visual editorial – it’s just as nuanced. Everything that goes into it is a call you make: every color, every line weight, every angle.
I don’t normally look like a twig and I do eat like a pig but the weight has just dropped off me.
The Death of Advertising? I think that’s in the book of Revelation. It’s the day when people everywhere become satisfied with their weight, their hair, their skin, their wardrobe, and their aroma.
Also, with information having just come out at the time about J. Edgar Hoover’s electronic surveillance of Dr. King, it gave greater weight to the statements of those persons who were alleging involvement of the FBI.
Well, I don’t really eat cereal that much because on Weight Watchers it’s not worth the points.
Sometimes I do yoga, sometimes it’s kickboxing, sometimes it’s weight training, sometimes it’s Pilates.
You can quit smoking and lose weight at the same time.
If I look at the one thorn that is in my side, of all my life, it is my weight. I fret about it, I’m anxious about it, being an actor on television – it drives me insane. It just seems to be something that plays a central part in waking up in the morning and thinking, ‘How am I with myself today?’
I try to focus on eating seasonally and organic whenever possible. It can be a challenge, but it has a huge effect on my weight, my health, and the environment.
Let us come to the philosophers, whose authority is of greater weight, and their judgment more to be relied on, because they are believed to have paid attention, not to matters of fiction, but to the investigation of the truth.
I subscribe to the online Urban Dictionary’s definition of nerd: ‘one whose IQ exceeds his weight’. I’m also keen on the same Urban Dictionary’s definition of geek: ‘the person you pick on in high school and wind up working for as an adult’. I happily proclaim myself a book nerd/reading geek and proud of it.
Almost every woman I have spoken to about pregnancy has a story about her doctor giving her a hard time about her weight. Later in my pregnancy it felt like all of my time with my doctor was focused on how fat I was getting – so fat!
I don’t care how much weight’s on there. If you’re doing 40 reps, that’s cardio!
Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.
Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.
I want more muscles! I go to the gym three or four times a week with a personal trainer. I can afford that now. I can’t put on weight though, no matter how much I eat.
You get to the point in life where you realize you have to roll up your sleeves, deal with the consequences of what happens, and carry your own weight.
I tried every diet, from living on cabbage soup to fasting to Weight Watchers, and then came the frozen meals and the shakes. I realized that the more I took care of my body, eating what was good for me, then I felt happy and whole.
When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition.
When someone has a weight problem when they’re pregnant, they will struggle before, during and after to lose weight.
You know what the secret to weight loss is? Don’t eat much.
I think I’m always surprised at how much the musicians I meet put weight on things that aren’t music.
Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.
I realized that I didn’t need nearly as many calories as I’d grown accustomed to. I ate 100 to 200 calories every two hours or so, consumed healthy proteins (yogurt, lean meat, turkey jerky), and drank a gallon of water a day. And as my weight dropped, my energy soared.
When the weight of the paper equals the weight of the airplane, only then you can go flying.
If you are thinking every day, ‘I have to get to the gym’ and ‘I have to lose this weight,’ and that’s all you think about and you obsess over it, it’s not healthy.
I was brought up with a very strong value that you should always protect the small and the few against those who want to misuse their muscle and weight in order to get what they weren’t supposed to.
The older you get, the easier it is to get injured. But what I’ve learned the hard way is that the more excess weight you have, the more likely you are to get injured doing everyday things.
There’s no way to fake weight loss – you just kinda have to not eat.
Religion is not a burden, not a weight, it is wings.
I was cast as the lead in a Warner Bros TV pilot and was immediately told I needed to lose weight. I got a bit weird about food for the first time in my life, and I thought, ‘You know, this just isn’t the life for me.’
I think everyone understands grief, the journey it takes us on, whether it’s the death of a loved one, the end of a relationship, a disappointment. Some people don’t deal with it, the power of it. Some do. Some feel the weight of it and it informs their choices. I’ve had to open up to grief in different contexts.
I learned to basically pull my own weight, just do my own thing. I spent a lot of time alone and I loved it. It was actually really great because to the present day I love spending time alone. I go bicycling alone, go climbing alone and I just love being with myself and observing myself and learning something.
Weight loss can change your whole character. That always amazed me: Shedding pounds does change your personality. It changes your philosophy of life because you recognize that you are capable of using your mind to change your body.
A guy like Bruce Lee, I’ve always been a fan. How he used to be able to move and be so quick. You look at some of the exercises that he did, and it was all majority free weight, like standing on your hands. That works every muscle. Everything is firing.
If you move something 10 pounds through space and then stop suddenly, there’s a little overshoot. When you transfer weight from one leg to another, there’s a certain way that it happens.
The more easily digestible and refined the carbohydrates, the greater the effect on our health, weight and well-being.
