I keep my weight low, although you need to be able to move your weight around the race car to change the balance. I’m 6ft and I’m 70kg so I haven’t much fat on me.
The reason I wrote ‘I’m Too Young for This!’ is to spare young women the suffering of hormonal loss – and it is true suffering. You can’t sleep, you gain weight for no reason, you bloat for no reason, your moods are altered, and your sex drive is diminished.
As an actor, you gain weight, you lose weight, you change your hair color, and you make changes physically and emotionally to be able to understand the character.
Write your goals down in detail and read your list of goals every day. Some goals may entail a list of shorter goals. Losing a lot of weight, for example, should include mini-goals, such as 10-pound milestones. This will keep your subconscious mind focused on what you want step by step.
Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can’t find.
The biggest mistake people make is to try to lose too much weight too fast.
I think I rushed and I needed more time with my comeback. I needed more time to get my legs stronger to be able to handle the workload. You can only train for that by pitching innings. You can’t simulate pitching off a mound in a game inside a weight room.
I’ve never had body issues, I’ve never had an eating disorder. I’ve never had to go on a diet and that’s because of Weight Watchers.
Surely the day will come when color means nothing more than the skin tone, when religion is seen uniquely as a way to speak one’s soul, when birth places have the weight of a throw of the dice and all men are born free, when understanding breeds love and brotherhood.
Fifty percent of the weight of the soybean is protein. And what a protein! No other protein that we’ve known comes so nearly to the basic protein of animals and humans as soybean protein.
I have lost weight; my face is bound to look different.
And if you cannot remain indifferent, you must resolve to throw your weight into that balance in which the fate and condition of man is weighed.
Around 20 million premature and low-birth weight babies are born every year and are at high risk of death or disability because of hypothermia.
It’s normal to gain weight during pregnancy. It’s something that has to happen to your body.
Well, obviously, as soon as I’d finished the script I read a lot of books on Winston Churchill, and started to gain weight and really prepare emotionally, mentally and physically for the role.
I took my weight training to a new level.
You can take weight out of a car and truck and still make it very strong.
My success has been something I’ve worked a long time at and it’s been a gradual process. I compare it to the idea of someone losing a lot of weight over a period of a few years. You don’t really notice the weight loss overall but if you compare photos from then and now there’s a big difference.
Plyometrics. Hate them. Enough already. Jumping around, using your own body weight is so hard to me. How did we do it as kids?
Everything we’ve been taught about health, weight loss and aging is wrong.
I didn’t get into fitness until my late twenties. I had put on a lot of weight; I was quite chubby and feeling really depressed. But exercise helped everything – the body and the mind.
When I was with Geffen Records, I weighed almost 400 pounds. The label told me that I had a great voice but wasn’t marketable having a weight image.
I had spent my entire career not wanting to talk about weight, not wanting to deal with it, wanting to be an actor first.
When you’re feeling down, sad, lonely, negative, you don’t want to take care of yourself – and the weight problem and the diabetic problem and the heart attack and stroke problems and high cholesterol set in.
I’ve got to make sure I’m keeping weight on.
I work extremely hard in the weight room, and also on the court to get better and make sure I keep my body in shape.
I’ve never disliked myself, and my weight has had nothing to do with my self-esteem.
There is no quick fix. At the end of the day, you still have to do the work to maintain your weight. It can’t be a diet. You have to change your life.
Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, the emptiness of ages in his face, and on his back the burden of the world.
When I got pregnant with my first child, I gained nearly 5st. I did a bit of pretending: ‘I’m just really small, so I just put on a lot of weight when I’m pregnant.’ That is true, but I also ate a lot of cake.
Now, if King Crimson accepts responsibility for innovating its own tradition, you can’t accept responsibility for the audience. And there is an enormous tangible weight of expectation, which comes from an audience attending a King Crimson concert.
Courage – you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn’t want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself.
I think with something like ‘Watchmen’ you can genuinely call that a graphic novel because it has the weight and the intent of a proper novel and it also is the complete story.
I remember my mom saying that after you have a baby you get really thin. So you gain all that weight and then you just lose it and keep losing it.
Actors worry about bad breath, weight, receding hairlines and why their leading lady looks like their daughter.
All my life I’ve had a weight problem. As a child, I loved to eat. I would hide from my mother and drink whole cans of condensed milk in my room.
As a teenager, my favourite rejection was, ‘She looks too healthy,’ which of course translates as, ‘She needs to lose weight.’
My fitness regimen primarily consists of power yoga, cardio and light weight training.
The horrors of the Second World War, the chilling winds of the Cold War and the crushing weight of the Iron Curtain are little more than fading memories. Ideals that once commanded great loyalty are now taken for granted.
I don’t put weight on fame, and having people around me just because I am famous makes me feel really bad about myself.
I’m a girl who enjoys a great meal with great friends, so I’m not really that concerned about weight loss.
A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people’s patience.
I used to get so stressed out before the fight, weeks out, because of how much weight I had to cut to get there.
It would be nice if models were allowed to be a more healthy weight – for the models, and for the young women who look up to them. We were athletic and healthy, and we looked like women.
I’m really happy to have the chance to talk about the editing process. It’s something that I think doesn’t get the weight it deserves, especially with the rise of self-publishing.
I don’t like to boast, but I have probably skipped more poetry than any other person of my age and weight in this country.
My happy weight changes. Sometimes I eat more; sometimes I play more. I’ll be different sizes all the time.
None knows the weight of another’s burden.
Everything has to be pulling weight in a short story for it to be really of the first order.
I tend to be slim and you know, I actually can lose weight quicker than I can gain it.
Patriotism has no appeal to us; justice has. Party has no weight with us; principle has. Loyalty is meaningless; it depends on what one is loyal to.
I’m obviously not a guy who focuses on weight too much. But for certain jobs, you have to gain or lose weight.
The Raiders of old were vicious and crazy and cruel. Hanging around their locker room was like hanging around the weight room at Folsom Prison.
I had to tell about my colonic, which expresses the fact why I’m so neat today as opposed to a few years ago. I never knew that the weight made that much difference.
There’s no better exercise than dancing. ‘Dancing with the Stars’ is amazing. I used to take it for granted, but the three months you spend on the show, with that grueling regimen, you just shed weight. You can eat anything you want and it doesn’t stick.
My weight has been an emotional roller-coaster for me, and I am ready to get off it.
I’m eternally grateful for the fact that I’m doing what I like best. I thank my stars for it. I wonder why I wasted all that time being fat. I should have lost weight and started acting earlier. But as they say, things happen when they are meant to.
I’m very lucky, as I’ve never ever felt any pressure from any producer to lose weight, whereas a lot of actresses have.
Even when people are so judgmental about what you wear or your weight you just have to step away and be like, ‘I’m a normal, fine human being.’
Suddenly in the end when it’s over, you feel a big weight on your shoulders. That’s the role of the captain. Unfortunately, it’s sometimes like that in sport.
I would love to tell you that I don’t worry about losing the weight after the baby is born, but I do try to think before I eat. The first cookie? Definitely! But I try to think about if I really want to do the extra sit-ups before I eat the second one.
I gained 60 pounds, and I’m proud of it. Why do I need to watch my weight when I’m pregnant? I could eat whatever the hell I want to eat.
