These weight loss quotes will inspire you. Weight loss, in the context of medicine, health, or physical fitness, refers to a reduction of the total body mass, by a mean loss of fluid, body fat (adipose tissue), or lean mass (namely bone mineral deposits, muscle, tendon, and other connective tissue).
Below you will find a collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging weight loss quotes, weight loss sayings, and weight loss proverbs.
Best Weight Loss Quotes
- “Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.” ~ Oprah Winfrey
- “If you’re not doing what is best for your body, you are the one who lose.” ~ Julius Erving
- “Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” ~ Jim Ryun
- “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, M.D.
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“Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.” ~ Jim Rohn
- “There is no such thing as a self-made man. You will reach your goals only with the help of others.” ~ George Shinn
- “We never repent of having eaten too little.” ~ Thomas Jefferson
- “Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” ~ Albert Einstein
- “In two decades I’ve lost a total of 789 pounds. I should be hanging from a charm bracelet.” ~ Erma Bombeck
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“The biggest seller is cookbooks and the second is diet books – how not to eat what you’ve just learned how to cook.” ~ Andy Rooney
- “My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.” ~ Orson Welles
- “I’ve been on a diet for two weeks and all I’ve lost is two weeks.” ~ Totie Fields
- “The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you’re off it.” ~ Jackie Gleason
- “Frequently, visualization is the key to lose weight. Imagine yourself with your desired body, and work for it. At some point in the future, this wish will come true.” ~ David Viscott
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“You may delay, but time will not.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “I am not a glutton – I am an explorer of food” ~ Erma Bombeck
- “Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the ‘Titanic’ who waved off the dessert cart.” ~ Erma Bombeck
- “Life itself is the proper binge.” ~ Julia Child , Weight loss quotes life
- “The foods that are recommended today are as palatable as a steady diet of wet blotters.” ~ Groucho Marx
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“Burning fat efficiently boils down to one thing – building more muscle!” ~ Denise Austin
- “Exercise should be fun, otherwise, you won’t be consistent.” ~ Laura Ramirez
- “Don’t even wait until you’ve lost a pound. The minute you can push the plate away with food still on it, give yourself a pat on the back.” ~ Tony Robbins
- “Thank you for calling the Weight Loss Hotline. If you’d like to lose a half pound right now, press 1 eighteen thousand times.” ~ Randy Glasbergen
- “At the end of every diet, the path curves back to the trough.” ~ Mason Cooley
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“The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not.” ~ Mark Twain
- “They are sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing.” ~ William Shakespeare
- “Rather than strive to ‘lose weight,’ most people would be better off striving to lose only fat and to build or maintain muscle.” ~ Mark Sisson
- “When you nourish your body with pure energy, you transform from the inside out.” ~ Bill Phillips
- “Successful weight loss takes programming, not willpower.” ~ Phil McGraw
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“You know what the secret to weight loss is? Don’t eat much.” ~ Simon Cowell
- “I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on.” ~ Jean Kerr
- “Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.” ~ Thomas Jefferson
- “Living a healthy lifestyle will only deprive you of poor health, lethargy, and fat.” ~ Jill Johnson
- “The reason fat men are good natured is they can neither fight nor run.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt
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“A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.” ~ Barbara Johnson
- “Reality check: you can never, ever, use weight loss to solve problems that are not related to your weight. At your goal weight or not, you still have to live with yourself and deal with your problems. You will still have the same husband, the same job, the same kids, and the same life. Losing weight is not a cure for life.” ~ Phil McGraw , Self-love weight loss quotes
- “The rest of the world lives to eat, while I eat to live.” ~ Socrates
- “One should eat to live, not live to eat.” ~ Moliere
- “It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears.” ~ Plutarch
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“The older you get, the tougher it is to lose weight, because by then your body and your fat are really good friends.” ~ Bob Hope
- “The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That’s what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they’ll go through the pain no matter what happens.” ~ Arnold Schwarzenegger
- “I have gained and lost the same 10 pounds so many times over and over again my cellulite must have deja vu!” ~ Jane Wagner
- “A diet is a plan, generally hopeless, for reducing your weight, which tests your will power but does little for your waistline.” ~ Herbert V. Prochnow
- “The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach” ~ Benjamin E. Mays
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“That’s life. The older you get, the tougher it is to score.” ~ Bob Hope
- “You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.” ~ Bette Davis
- “Obesity is a mental state, a disease brought on by boredom and disappointment.” ~ Cyril Connolly
- “If you have formed the habit of checking on every new diet that comes along, you will find that, mercifully, they all blur together, leaving you with only one definite piece of information: french-fried potatoes are out.” ~ Jean Kerr
- “If you don’t take care of this the most magnificent machine that you will ever be given…where are you going to live?” ~ Karyn Calabrese
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“It’s okay to be fat. So you’re fat. Just be fat and shut up about it.” ~ Roseanne Barr
- “The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates.” ~ Dave Barry
- “Another good reducing exercise consists in placing both hands against the table edge and pushing back.” ~ Robert Quillen
- “Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.” ~ Napoleon Hill
- “Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.” ~ Socrates
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“I am a better person when I have less on my plate.” ~ Elizabeth Gilbert
- “There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.” ~ Bertrand Russell
- “More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.” ~ John Kenneth Galbraith
- “I’m prouder of my weight loss than my Oscar! I hope it has inspired people.” ~ Jennifer Hudson
- “I tried every diet in the book. I tried some that weren’t in the book. I tried eating the book. It tasted better than most of the diets.” ~ Dolly Parton
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“Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.” ~ Peter De Vries
- “You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be.” ~ David Viscott
- “Nothing tastes as good as being thin feels.” ~ Elizabeth Berg
- “The secret of getting ahead is getting started” ~ Mark Twain
- “Rule your mind or it will rule you.” ~ Horace
- “My advice if you insist on slimming: Eat as much as you like – just don’t swallow it.” ~ Harry Secombe