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Weight Loss Quotes

By Alan Reiner | Jul 22, 2024 | 67 quotes

Weight loss is deeply personal and rarely as simple as it looks from the outside. These quotes address the science, the motivation, and the emotional side of changing your relationship with food and fitness.

They work well in health blogs, wellness newsletters, personal journal entries, or supportive social media posts. Explore the collection for honest perspectives on the journey rather than quick-fix slogans.

  1. “When your body absorbs toxins, it stores them in fat, which is why fiber and probiotics are strategic weapons for weight loss. Fiber keeps your colon healthy and reduces your body's absorption of toxins.”

    Suzanne Somers
  2. “While weight loss is important, what's more important is the quality of food you put in your body - food is information that quickly changes your metabolism and genes.”

    Mark Hyman
  3. “I didn't start out about weight loss. I was very tired and my energy was low. This is my second go-around in love, so I want to make sure I'll be around to enjoy it.”

    Niecy Nash
  4. “I'm prouder of my weight loss than my Oscar!”

    Jennifer Hudson
  5. “Successful weight loss takes programming, not willpower.”

    Phil McGraw
  6. “Many of depression's symptoms - exhaustion, insomnia, nausea, headaches, weight loss, weight gain - are physical ailments.”

    Gayle Forman
  7. “I don't credit diet pills for my weight loss. I would never flog any 'weight-loss' supplement.”

    Susanna Reid
  8. “There is no lasting glory in rapid weight loss.”

    Mireille Guiliano
  9. “Excess exercise tends to be counterbalanced by excess hunger, exemplified by the phrase 'working up an appetite.' A few people with extraordinary willpower can resist such hunger day after day, but for the vast majority, weight loss through exercise is a flawed option.”

    Andrew Weil
  10. “No, as it turns out, I really like being congratulated on my weight loss. I like it so much, it's tragic.”

    Carrie Fisher
  11. “When followed correctly, the Dukan Diet is both a safe and effective method of weight loss.”

    Pierre Dukan
  12. “I am vegetarian. I have a sweet tooth, so I try and avoid desserts. I binge maybe once a month. I eat every two hours, whether it is a Marie biscuit or just a slice of apple. As a result, my metabolism has improved, and this is a huge contributor to weight loss.”

    Vidya Balan
  13. “I found that people like rules, and I love to tell people what to do. It's not rocket science when it comes to weight loss. It's about eating a little less and moving a little bit more.”

    Bob Harper
  14. “When I started working out, it wasn't about weight loss; I was going through a really hard time and needed an emotional release. Once you start getting in the tabloids claiming you have fake body parts, then it's like, 'Okay, I made it. Now I'm really working out.'”

    Khloe Kardashian
  15. “There's no way to fake weight loss - you just kinda have to not eat.”

    Paula Malcomson
  16. “After a lifetime of losing and gaining weight, I get it. No matter how you slice it, weight loss comes down to the simple formula of calories in, calories out.”

    Valerie Bertinelli
  17. “If you're totally sedentary and eat 2,500 calories a day, don't instantly go to 1,200 calories and hours of aerobics - your weight loss will be sudden and violent, but also fleeting.”

    Martha Beck
  18. “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.”

    Nick Carter
  19. “There's a huge emotional component to weight loss.”

    Carnie Wilson
  20. “If you believe that weight loss requires self-deprivation, I'm going to teach you otherwise.”

    Robert Atkins
  21. “My recipes aren't geared towards women; my books are marketed towards women because women are the biggest market for weight loss, weight management and weight maintenance and for cooking.”

    Bethenny Frankel
  22. “Here's the secret to weight loss: It's all about crowding out, not cutting out.”

    Kathy Freston
  23. “I'm learning a lot about the culture of weight loss. I didn't know there were bloggers out there who were proud to be fat.”

    Mick Cornett
  24. “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.”

    Ray William Johnson
  25. “The usual justification for eating extra meals is that it keeps the metabolism 'revved up' so that weight loss is easier. There is, however, very little hard evidence that supports this idea, and a fair amount that disputes it.”

    Andrew Weil
  26. “You know what the secret to weight loss is? Don't eat much.”

    Simon Cowell
  27. “I have more energy to run after our four children. Weight loss and great skin were a bonus!”

    Niecy Nash
  28. “I'm not against working out. It's just not effective for weight loss. I like strength training to tone and firm the body so you look tight. But working out just makes you hungrier.”

    Jorge Cruise
  29. “Everything we've been taught about health, weight loss and aging is wrong.”

    Jorge Cruise
  30. “The real pride, the real present, is your health and your longevity. My whole career, I have never done anything where competition was involved with weight loss.”

    Richard Simmons
  31. “After my second, I started working with a nutritionist who specializes in post-baby weight loss. It's called Simply Beautiful Mom. I'm in restaurants all the time because of work, and she actually will look at menus online before I go and she says, 'These are the three things you're allowed to order. Don't even open a menu.'”

    Lauren Weisberger
  32. “I'm a girl who enjoys a great meal with great friends, so I'm not really that concerned about weight loss.”

    Jill Scott
  33. “I'm honest. If someone asks about my weight loss, I tell them I have five people working on me, plus there's Photoshop. I tell them I can't eat everything and look good. I was unhealthy when I was fat, and now I'm a normal body type. I'm not special; I'm just an actress, and boys and girls are intelligent enough to recognise that.”

    Sonam Kapoor
  34. “In India, we kind of concentrate only on weight loss. I want to teach people that it is very important to be strong and fit, rather than just thin.”

    Bipasha Basu
  35. “Not having time or energy for weight loss makes no sense. Does it take more time or energy to eat fish than prime rib? No.”

    Martha Beck
  36. “It takes about four days of virtuous living to create a little weight loss. That also happens to be the time required to get used to eating less. In other words, if you can get past day three of a fitness regimen, things improve.”

    Martha Beck
  37. “I didn't get excited by weight loss, and since I was already happy being fat, I couldn't see the point of it all. I'm 6 ft. and weigh about 18 st. or 19 st., but weighing myself is not something I do with much pleasure.”

    Maeve Binchy
  38. “I was 13 when I developed the classic symptoms of a person who gets diabetes: a lot of weight loss, a tremendous thirst, and blurry eyesight. My mom took me to the hospital, and the doctors took some blood tests. My blood sugar was so high that they knew right away.”

    Bobby Clarke
  39. “'Huge' is a show about self-discovery and follows kids at a weight loss camp. My character is shy, so when she meets Nikki Blonsky's character Willamena Rader, who's not, they become friends.”

    Raven Goodwin
  40. “Most weight loss diets center around portion control, which is just trying to eat smaller amounts of the same addictive foods. This approach inevitably fails.”

    Joel Fuhrman
  41. “Cutting back on calories is not the answer to successful weight loss and successful health… you have to increase the quality of what you eat, not just reduce the quantity.”

    Joel Fuhrman
  42. “At the age of thirty-seven, I was fat, and since the age of thirty-eight, I have never been fat again. That's the whole idea of effective weight loss - it's permanent because it's part of your lifestyle and the way you think about yourself, with pride and a sense of accomplishment. The goal you achieve is your own - you own it.”

    Jean Nidetch
  43. “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.”

    Jean Nidetch
  44. “I was very disturbed to find that a few people were angry at my weight loss.”

    Missy Elliott
  45. “The most important thing I want to get across is that maintaining weight loss is just hard. It takes a dedication to exercise and eating right most of the time.”

    Trisha Yearwood
  46. “Whenever I have asked something from God and worked hard for it, I have always got it, be it my Indian citizenship or my weight loss.”

    Adnan Sami
  47. “I always tell people you don't have to work out an hour every day, but I do make sure I sweat - I think that's the biggest key to weight loss.”

    Molly Sims
  48. “Weight loss surgery isn't going to make you lose weight; it's a tool to help you lose weight. Half of it is the surgery, and half of it is you eating what you're supposed to eat and exercising.”

    Ashley Nell Tipton
  49. “Dietary fiber provides a whole slew of health benefits when consumed in adequate amounts. It not only promotes 'regularity,' it also reduces your risk of several chronic diseases and plays a crucial role in successful weight loss.”

    Harley Pasternak
  50. “I think the U.S. has ultrasensitivity about weight loss.”

    Harley Pasternak
  51. “There are people who intensely clutch an idea that yoga is a higher system, not to be lowered to the weight loss or even fitness category. This is the same kind of clutching that has kept yoga part of a tightly knit club for so long since its introduction in America.”

    Tara Stiles
  52. “The weight loss came about because a buddy of mine who was diagnosed with diabetes because of his obesity told me that I was fat. And I started laughing, and he was like, 'No seriously, you're fat.' And I said, 'Oh wow, really.'”

    Carlos Mencia
  53. “I used to think weight loss happens quickly, but it has taken a lot of time. There is no secret to it.”

    Parineeti Chopra
  54. “In this industry, it's sad that a superficial thing like weight loss can actually define your career, but if that is the case, so be it.”

    Parineeti Chopra
  55. “The best thing about yoga is that it is not just about weight loss but being fit from within. It's about better concentration, a calmer mind, and knowing your body.”

    Nikita Dutta
  56. “When we lessen lectin consumption, the gut wall reseals and the stimulus to store fat is removed. Lectins no longer bind to insulin receptors, and we no longer store fat aggressively. Weight loss invariably follows.”

    Steven Gundry
  57. “Fiber and other nondigestible carbs work wonderful weight loss magic.”

    Denise Austin
  58. “When you eat foods high in fiber, you feel full faster, making you less likely to overeat and more likely to have weight loss.”

    Denise Austin
  59. “When I first became known in public I was sent off to bootcamps. I was thrown into all this madness of weight loss and weight gain.”

    Gemma Collins
  60. “I can remember I lost three and a half stone weight loss. It was painful, it was excruciating, it was hell. I had to exercise eight hours a day. It was very tiring, very exhausting. I came away seeing exercise as punishment.”

    Gemma Collins
  61. “For weight gain, one must do cardio in the evening and for weight loss, in the morning. So, while gaining weight, I did weight training in the mornings and light cardio in the evenings.”

    Atul Kulkarni
  62. “I was very insecure with my body because of my weight loss from the first two seasons of 'Jersey Shore.'”

    Angelina Pivarnick
  63. “A large amount of work has come to a standstill all around, so I thought why not just go for weight loss?”

    Shehnaaz Gill
  64. “Healthy food and lifestyle choices are the foundations of weight loss.”

    Joshua Rosenthal
  65. “Automated gender analysis of my writings often marks me as male, probably because I write about technology, and also about war. But our algorithmic overlords are onto me: I mostly encounter three types of ads online: weight loss, beauty products, and online degrees from shady for-profits.”

    Zeynep Tufekci
  66. “I have always believed the strength I get throughout the year being bigger than the weight I fight at; is more than the loss I have the last few days during weight loss.”

    Matt Hughes
  67. “Plastic surgery for massive weight loss patients is very challenging under normal circumstances when you're a trained, board-certified plastic surgeon. When you're not a plastic surgeon, I can't even imagine it's even doable.”

    Terry Dubrow

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