Top 100 Diet Quotes of All Time

A short, finished list rather than an endless feed: 100 of the best diet quotes ever written, picked out of the full diet archive on QuoteForever. You will find Robert Atkins, Holly Madison, Joel Fuhrman and Kathy Freston among them.

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1

As for my diet, I try to eat lean, clean and healthy - nothing too surprising. And I avoid too much meat or dairy because they slow you down.

2

Your diet is a bank account. Good food choices are good investments.

3

Don't compare yourself with someone else's version of happy or thin. Accepting yourself burns the most calories.

4

Right now I'd love to be sitting on a Greek island somewhere because of being Greek American, eating great octopus salad and some fantastic lamb. Or sipping a little ouzo. I think the Mediterranean diet is one of the healthiest... Lots of nuts, vegetables, fruits, fresh fish, lean meats, yogurt.

5

If I like myself at this weight, then this is what I'm going to be. I don't have an eating disorder.

6

The medical literature tells us that the most effective ways to reduce the risk of heart disease, cancer, stroke, diabetes, Alzheimer's, and many more problems are through healthy diet and exercise. Our bodies have evolved to move, yet we now use the energy in oil instead of muscles to do our work.

7

Young girls look to me as a role model and think I crash diet to keep slim. That's not true, I always eat properly.

8

I've done everything every fat person ever has. I've tried every diet.

9

The easiest diet is, you know, eat vegetables, eat fresh food. Just a really sensible healthy diet like you read about all the time.

10

The Diet was dissolved by a Reich Government decree.

11

Mexican food is far more varied than people think. It changes like dialects. I was brought up in Jalisco by the sea on a basic diet - tomatoes, chillis, peppers of every size and rice, which is a Mexican staple. The Pacific coast has a huge array of seafood.

12

I followed the same diet for 20 years, eliminating starches, living on salads, lean meat, and small portions.

13

I dream about 'Cheers.' Like when you go on a diet and you dream of pizza. I always think of those wonderful years. I loved working on it.

14

I always had to diet. I'm diabetic, so it's a lifestyle for me anyway just to stay healthy and not end up in the hospital.

15

Leave the table while you still feel you could eat a little more.

16

You can train and train until you are blue in the face, but you've got to diet, you've got to have that leanness because if you are not lean, your abs won't show. Of course, the training has to be put in, but then you've to shed all the fat and keep the fat off. And that's how you get an eight pack.

17

I've had weight issues all my life. I've been on all the diets: Atkins, liquid protein, Scarsdale diet. Now I go to the gym often. I'm always on the StairMaster, and I do weights.

18

I like food too much to go on some crazy diet. French fries are my favorite downfall.

19

If I could have a Barbie body, which has no cellulite, I totally would. I would like to have a flatter stomach, but that won't happen either. That is never going to happen. No matter how much weight I lose, my stomach, below the belly button, always pooches out.

20

If you've got a big gut and you start doing sit-ups, you are going to get bigger because you build up the muscle. You've got to get rid of that fat! How do you get rid of fat? By changing your diet.

21

The fact is, I diet every day of my life. I have to work at it. But I diet so I can pig out.

22

Look I eat really well and I work out, but I also indulge when I want to. I don't starve myself in an extremist way. You're not taking away my coffee or my dairy or my glass of wine because I'd be devastated.

23

It's one thing to lose weight, but it's another thing to eat healthy.

24

I keep my diet simple by sticking to mostly fruits and vegetables all day and then having whatever I want for dinner. I end up making healthy choices, like sushi or grilled fish, because I feel so good from eating well.

25

It looks to me to be obvious that the whole world cannot eat an American diet.

26

Weight Watchers is not intimidating. It's not a diet. It's a lifestyle.

27

Each of us should take personal responsibility for our diet, and our children's diet, and the government's role should be to make certain it provides the best information possible to help people stay healthy.

28

I told my doctor I get very tired when I go on a diet, so he gave me pep pills. Know what happened? I ate faster.

29

The modern diet is grossly deficient in hundreds of important plant-derived immunity-building compounds which makes us highly vulnerable to viruses, infections and disease.

30

To provide optimal levels of protective micronutrients, a diet must be vegetable-based, not grain-based.

31

I don't believe in depriving myself of any food or being imprisoned by a diet.

32

I know what I have to do if I want to lose weight and stay healthy: eat a proper diet and exercise. All I've got to do is apply it.

33

The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.

34

I was completely unhealthy, obese, so I committed to running three miles every morning for six months and following a strict diet, and 100 pounds came off.

35

I don't need a diet pill. I need something that gives you an electric shock when you reach for food.

36

In the 1970s we got nouvelle cuisine, in which a lot of the old rules were kicked over. And then we had cuisine minceur, which people mixed up with nouvelle cuisine but was actually fancy diet cooking.

37

And I believe that the best buy in public health today must be a combination of regular physical exercise and a healthy diet.

38

It's not a struggle to be on a diet. You feel lighter, and your spirit is lighter, too. But I love chocolate, and I allow myself to have chocolate. That doesn't go against a diet for me.

39

I always had a sense that I would fall in love with Tokyo. In retrospect I guess it's not that surprising. I was of the generation that had grown up in the '80s when Japan was ascendant (born aloft by a bubble whose burst crippled its economy for decades), and I'd fed on a steady diet of anime and samurai films.

40

And I grew up on a steady diet of science fiction, especially apocalyptic and postapocalyptic fiction.

41

I've done every diet there is.

42

I'm terrible with my workout regime and following it strictly. I'm terrible with a healthy diet and following it strictly. I'm terrible on the weekends about getting up at reasonable hours and all of those things. But, when it comes to my work and the discipline it takes to get to work on time - I hate unprofessionalism.

43

Most diets would have you cutting things out from your diet; they are about denial and discipline.

44

Though I'm vegan and advocate that others eat a plant-based diet, I know that many people aren't quite ready to take that step in whole.

45

I'm not strictly vegetarian, but meat doesn't play a big part in my diet.

46

There are six components of wellness: proper weight and diet, proper exercise, breaking the smoking habit, control of alcohol, stress management and periodic exams.

47

As American as an apple is and as American as baseball is, they don't go together. You can't be chewing an apple at a baseball game. You've got to let go of the diet that day.

48

I take care of myself, which includes dieting, exercising and minimising stress. I joke that I've been on a diet since 1974, which is basically true.

49

I find it almost comforting to count calories, because it makes me conscious of what I'm eating. But on Super Bowl Sunday, I thought, 'Surrender to it. It's nacho time.' Then I ate nothing but Doritos all day.

50

The dieting wars have got to stop.

51

In New York I pretty much live in diners - I order French Fries, Diet Coke floats and lots of coffee.

52

I think of dieting, then I eat pizza.

53

I am involved in Greenpeace. And I just recently completely switched my diet over to near-veganism. So you try to do little things that you can. I recycle every single day. Every single thing in my house that can be recycled is.

54

By learning about my body and making small, subtle changes, I find out what I enjoy and what is effective. I'm always finessing: adjusting my diet and my workouts. You have to figure out which exercises are fun and interesting and stimulate your brain - or else you'll never keep at them.

55

For my diet, I choose mostly organic. But in general, I am a big believer in trying to strike a balance with everything.

56

I'm cancer-free. And I'm on antioxidants and acupuncture and a different diet. And I have a different outlook on life. I don't have resentment any more. It's wonderful.

57

No disease that can be treated by diet should be treated with any other means.

58

Just like keeping a healthy diet is important to maintaining a healthy lifestyle, eating the right foods is just as important for getting the most out of your workout.

59

I don't starve myself. Anyone who knows me will tell you I have an appetite. I'd much rather work out and not diet than not work out and have to diet.

60

You can be the most beautiful person on earth, and if you don't have a fitness or diet routine, you won't be beautiful.

61

I've just been growing right along. It's painful, but it's a great pain, and I like suffering for great results. It's like going to the gym. It hurts really bad at first, but after a couple of months and after that diet, you're looking so hot.

62

And let's be clear: It's not enough just to limit ads for foods that aren't healthy. It's also going to be critical to increase marketing for foods that are healthy.

63

Some people are willing to pay the price and it's the same with staying healthy or eating healthy. There's some discipline involved. There's some sacrifices.

64

So, when it comes to eating healthy, it's just doing the right thing. And it's not something you have to do 365 days a year, but I think it's something you have to do 25 days a month. Let's put it that way.

65

I did every diet: Atkins. Cabbage-soup diet. Dean Ornish. But I couldn't live the rest of my life like a rabbit.

66

We always think of a diet with a big groan. But I think diets are fun. I think it is an American pastime for a lot of women.

67

Once you have to start counting calories, it takes away from the joy of eating.

68

The more colorful the food, the better. I try to add color to my diet, which means vegetables and fruits.

69

If you maintain a healthy diet, or at least are smart about your food choices, you'll still see the pounds come off.

70

I was starting to become impotent through this diet and couldn't perform. How many people who are taking the little blue pill, if they started to change what they are eating most of the time, could change the way their sex life is?

71

I try to work out my mind more these days. I try to eat right. I don't drink, I don't smoke, and I take the skin off chicken. But I'm not on no special diet. I like my steak and potatoes, ice cream, doughnuts.

72

I never diet. I smoke. I drink now and then. I never work out.

73

Software-industry battles are fought by highly paid and out-of-shape nerds furiously pounding computer keyboards while they guzzle diet Coke. The stakes aren't very dramatic. Life? Liberty? The pursuit of happiness? Nope, it's about stock options.

74

I have been following a vegan diet now since the 1980s, and find it not only healthier, but also much more attractive than the chunks of meat that were on my plate as a child.

75

Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts enormous pressure on the world's resources. A vegetarian diet is better.

76

I'm only drinking white wine because I'm on a diet and I don't eat.

77

My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.

78

I try to stick to a certain diet all the time, and then when I feel like a reward, I have it. I try to stick to no dairy, no sugar, no wheat.

79

I'm on the Sensa diet. It's a little magic powder based on Dr. Hirsh's clinical trials and studies and it basically signals the brain that you're full through smellology.

80

My mom was always really healthy and cautious about her diet, so I'm not a big sugar guy.

81

You don't want to make a steady diet of just lettuce. You don't want to make a steady diet of fried chicken.

82

The first thing I did was give up sweet tea because I drank so much. I'd start drinking at lunchtime and wouldn't set it down until I went to bed. When you calculate how much empty calories and how much sugar I was consuming, it was staggering. So I haven't had a glass of sweet tea in three years.

83

I cook croquetas, and I eat jamon. I keep my diet 100% Mediterranean and drink my Rioja. In that sense, I have a piece of Spain in West Hollywood.

84

I never, ever, restrict food, and I will never go on a diet ever again.

85

Even if I'm hormonal and I feel like I've got a couple pounds of water weight, I will never starve myself, I will never, ever go on a diet.

86

I've never been a huge sweets eater, and I've always loved a Mediterranean diet. We eat a lot of dark leafy greens, and a couple meals each week are meat-free. We enjoy eating a balanced diet.

87

It's really unfair to working women in America who read celebrity news and think, 'Why can't I lose weight when I've had a baby?' Well, everyone you're reading about has money for a trainer and a chef. That doesn't make it realistic.

88

Breastfeeding is the very best diet I've been on.

89

A diet should be named after what you do eat, not what you don't eat.

90

Fruit is definitely on the maintenance diet. It's on the lifestyle diet.

91

You take the healthiest diet in the world, if you gave those people vitamins, they would be twice as healthy. So vitamins are valuable.

92

I have had cardiomyopathy, which is a non-coronary condition and is in no way related to diet.

93

I travel 330 days a year and eat every two and a half hours - I'm a big guy. I always carry a fork, little bottles of spices, and Sriracha. I eat what I feel like eating.

94

I am, in fact, a medical doctor; I am a world expert in mechanical heart technology; and I am an athletically fit man who takes care of his own health through diet and exercise, including frequent five mile runs.

95

There were years when I was a beer and tequila guy, then I got real fat. And then I found that you could actually go on a diet and drink scotch. Then I got hooked on scotch, and if you get hooked on scotch, then everything else just tastes wrong.

96

If I go on a diet and work out, I'm always in a bad mood. I'd rather be a little heavier but nice.

97

Quantity in diet is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry.

98

Whenever you're looking at new ways to get in shape, first you have to decide what you want. Do you want a more muscular look, or do you want to slim down and appear more toned and ripped? I adapt my training and diet with each role I do, depending on the image I want to convey.

99

I pay attention to my diet to be a healthier gymnast, but I'm not obsessive over it.

100

I used to be hung up on my figure, but it's a waste of time. I don't believe in diets. Have four pints one night, be healthy the next.

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