There is all this controversy that women and girls are too skinny or too overweight. I say to just do martial arts and everything will be okay. You will tone up your body and find a confidence you can’t find just sitting around watching TV and hanging out with friends.
I hate overweight, because it implies that there’s a weight standard I should be adhering to.
You have to stay in shape for dance. I don’t want to be too skinny, but I don’t want to be overweight. I want to be in the middle.
I was a good 30 pounds overweight throughout high school, and it wasn’t until I was going away to college that I really wanted to make sure I was doing everything possible to feel as confident as I could.
People say, ‘You’re overweight’; they question your heart and character. It’s a challenge again, proving to myself and to other people that I’m still here, I still have what it takes.
I’ve got a bad leg; I’m a little overweight, so I can’t run fast, but I will fight.
People say their weight is genetic. But it turns out that people who are overweight don’t just have overweight kids. They also have overweight pets. That’s not genetic.
I like dressing in designer clothes, and it’s hard to buy them if you are overweight. And I got tired of, like, going in the stores, and then it was like I couldn’t fit in anything. And overall, I wanted to be healthy.
I never really had an overweight body.
My seventh-grade year, I played football. I was, like, 15 pounds overweight, so I had to lose a ton of weight. They put me at left tackle; they put me on the defensive line. I absolutely hated football. I didn’t want to play again. Eighth grade year, I didn’t play.
When you are overweight, you just don’t feel good about yourself.
I am a big man, but I’ve allowed my condition to deteriorate by being overweight.
You don’t realize that somebody who’s average or even very fit could relate to someone who’s overweight, but it’s not about our size – it’s how we look at ourselves and how we feel about ourselves.
People are overweight and starving at the same time. It’s a tragedy for both the individual and society.
Not everybody who is overweight comes from deprived backgrounds, but that’s where the propensity lies.
A lot of people who are overweight – not everyone, but a lot of people – are dealing with issues such as emotional issues, stress issues. They become stress eaters and emotional eaters.
I don’t want to make generalisations here, but I think that most women and maybe men are not comfortable with being overweight. It’s a tricky issue.
Out of one pocket we pay billions of our tax dollars to support the production of expensive, disease-causing foods. Out of the other pocket, we pay medical bills that are too high because our overweight population consumes too much of these rich, disease-causing foods.
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