I'm currently on my eighth week of changing my eating habits and it's definitely turned into a regular routine for me. By sticking to my plan and having one designated "cheat" day a week, it's helped me stay on track and all that jazz. Since I've done that, I sleep better, feel LOADS better with more energy, my skin looks better and my hair actually feels softer (go figure, right?)
I don't think some people realize how hard it is to actually lose weight. Obviously it's a commitment to eat better, be more active and such..but even with those factors, it can still be a challenge to get slimmer despite all of your best efforts. I remember my Dad telling me many moons ago, "
It took time to put it on. It'll take time to take it off."...damn him for being right. Rome wasn't built in a night, ha. It's definitely going to take time to get off as much as I'm wanting to lose, but I rather do it the healthy way than crash dieting for the rest of my life.
I just get a little irritated with some people who sit there and preach about weight loss when they've never really experienced being overweight. I understand that there's some people who want to lose 5 or 10 pounds..that's not considered fat. When your weight is causing physical pain in your back, knees, hips and effecting your social life, then I think you'd be able to understand where I'm coming from. I've had people straight up tell me "Just lose the weight". HEY! If it was that easy, don't you think I'd have it done? It's NOT all that easy for everyone. My husband drives me nuts because he can drop 10lbs in a week by practically yawning...I'd be lucky if I lost 1 lb. Weight loss for women is SO much harder than it is for guys, and it's the guys that tell me to drop the weight. THANKS!
NOT HELPING! Even when I played water polo, I was still "thick". It feels like I'm destined to be curvy, but I'm making it a point to be a HEALTHY curvy. It's a daily battle that I gotta deal with, but, it'll make me feel better in the long run. When I run across sites like
this one, I'm in awe as to how cruel some people can be towards overweight individuals. Yes, I personally know of several people who always say they want to lose weight, but do nothing about it...but then there's people out there who are legitimately trying their damnest and putting out an immense amount of effort to better themselves. Yet, all fat people are lazy. Yup. Rather upsetting to deal with from time to time...anway...
I know my weight loss partner,
Stef, has been hitting some pesky speed bumps with her progress, but I'm sure she'll pull through just fine and the weight will just start to fall off. With my weight loss crawling and Stef's being stubborn, I decided to look up some quotes that might possibly help motivate us, if not give us a chuckle, and get us back on track to pushing ourselves towards our goals :)
Motivation for weight loss:
When we lose twenty pounds... we may be losing the twenty best pounds we have! We may be losing the pounds that contain our genius, our humanity, our love and honesty. ~Woody Allen
Your stomach shouldn't be a waist basket. ~Author Unknown
A diet is the penalty we pay for exceeding the feed limit. ~Author Unknown
More die in the United States of too much food than of too little. ~John Kenneth Galbraith, The Affluent Society
The cardiologist's diet: If it tastes good, spit it out. ~Author Unknown
Inside some of us is a thin person struggling to get out, but they can usually be sedated with a few pieces of chocolate cake. ~Author Unknown
In the Middle Ages, they had guillotines, stretch racks, whips and cahins. Nowadays, we have a much more effective torture device called the bathroom scale. ~Stephen Phillips
It's okay to be fat. So you're fat. Just be fat and shut up about it. ~Roseanne Barr
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, "Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall," The Snake Has All the Lines, 1958
People are so worried about what they eat between Christmas and the New Year, but they really should be worried about what they eat between the New Year and Christmas. ~Author Unknown
When friends tell you how awesome you look, drop the "I still have more to go" crap. You worked hard and you deserve the compliment! ~Jillian Michaels
The one way to get thin is to re-establish a purpose in life. ~Cyril Connolly, The Unquiet Grave
Albert Einstein, who discovered that a tiny amount of mass is equal to a huge amount of energy, which explains why, as Einstein himself so eloquently put it in a famous 1939 speech to the Physics Department at Princeton, "You have to exercise for a week to work off the thigh fat from a single Snickers." ~Dave Barry, Dave Barry Turns 50
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. ~Phillip C. McGraw, The Ultimate Weight Solution: The 7 Keys to Weight Loss Freedom, 2003
If nature had intended our skeletons to be visible it would have put them on the outside of our bodies. ~Elmer Rice
I keep trying to lose weight... but it keeps finding me! ~Author Unknown
I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond. ~Mae West
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is fourteen days. ~Totie Fields
Rich, fatty foods are like destiny: they too, shape our ends. ~Author Unknown
The older you get, the tougher it is to lose weight, because by then your body and your fat are really good friends. ~Author Unknown
Stressed spelled backwards is desserts. Coincidence? I think not! ~Author Unknown
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
Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us. ~Peter De Vries
If hunger is not the problem, then eating is not the solution. ~Author Unknown
Nothing tastes as good as being thin feels. ~Author Unknown
If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush. ~Dawn French
No diet will remove all the fat from your body because the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain, you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office. ~George Bernard Shaw
The first thing you lose on a diet is your sense of humor. ~Author Unknown
Food is like sex: when you abstain, even the worst stuff begins to look good. ~Beth McCollister
I go up and down the scale so often that if they ever perform an autopsy on me they'll find me like a strip of bacon - a streak of lean and a streak of fat. ~Texas Guinan
Life itself is the proper binge. ~Julia Child
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst, for they are sticking to their diets. ~Author Unknown
I recently had my annual physical examination, which I get once every seven years, and when the nurse weighed me, I was shocked to discover how much stronger the Earth's gravitational pull has become since 1990. ~Dave Barry
Dieting is wishful shrinking. ~Author Unknown
It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears. ~Plutarch
Bigger snacks mean bigger slacks. ~Author Unknown
I'm allergic to food. Every time I eat it breaks out into fat. ~Jennifer Greene Duncan
Food has replaced sex in my life; now, I can't even get into my own pants. ~Author Unknown
A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand. ~Author Unknown
I have gained and lost the same ten pounds so many times over and over again my cellulite must have déjà vu. ~Jane Wagner
It's not women's fault that diets don't work. It's not perversity of lack of willpower. God did this - in Her great wisdom. ~Dr. Wayne Callaway
To lengthen your life, shorten your meals. ~Proverb
You can't lose weight by talking about it. You have to keep your mouth shut. ~Author Unknown
I think I just ate my willpower. ~Author Unknown
If you really want to be depressed, weigh yourself in grams. ~Jason Love
Brain cells come and brain cells go, but fat cells live forever. ~Author Unknown
I am a nutritional overachiever. ~Author Unknown
Dieting is not a piece of cake. ~Author Unknown
You know it's time to diet when you push away from the table and the table moves. ~Quoted in The Cockle Bur
If food is your best friend, it's also your worst enemy. ~Edward "Grandpa" Jones, 1978
I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat people. ~Ed Bluestone
A diet is a plan, generally hopeless, for reducing your weight, which tests your will power but does little for your waistline. ~Herbert B. Prochnow
I'm not overweight. I'm just nine inches too short. ~Shelley Winters
Dieters live life in the fasting lane. ~Author Unknown
People say that losing weight is no walk in the park. When I hear that I think, yeah, that's the problem. ~Chris Adams
To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing. ~Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, 1876
I'm on a 90-day wonder diet. Thus far, I've lost 45 days. ~Author Unknown
Flabbergasted, adj. Appalled over how much weight you have gained. ~Author Unknown
I'm in shape. Round is a shape... isn't it? ~Author Unknown
I've been on a constant diet for the last two decades. I've lost a total of 789 pounds. By all accounts, I should be hanging from a charm bracelet. ~Erma Bombeck
I am not a glutton - I am an explorer of food. ~Erma Bombeck
Forget about calories - everything makes thin people thinner, and fat people fatter. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires. ~Benjamin Franklin
When I buy cookies I eat just four and throw the rest away. But first I spray them with Raid so I won't dig them out of the garbage later. Be careful, though, because that Raid really doesn't taste that bad. ~Janette Barber
Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it. ~Horace
They are sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing. ~William Shakespeare
We never repent of having eaten too little. ~Thomas Jefferson, 1825
History is apt to judge harshly those who sacrifice tomorrow for today. ~Harold MacMillan
It would be far easier to lose weight permanently if replacement parts weren't so handy in the refrigerator. ~Hugh Allen
A waist is a terrible thing to mind. ~Tom Wilson
I'm not overweight, I'm undertall. ~Author Unknown
The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates. ~Dave Barry
Not afraid of heights - afraid of widths. ~Author Unknown
Gluttony is not a secret vice. ~Orson Welles
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
All people are made alike -
of bones and flesh and dinner -
Only the dinners are different.
~Gertrude Louise Cheney
My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people. ~Orson Welles
We're the country that has more food to eat than any other country in the world, and with more diets to keep us from eating it. ~Author Unknown
The only way to lose weight is to check it as airline baggage. ~Peggy Ryan
Fat is not a moral problem. It's an oral problem. ~Jane Thomas Noland
Never eat more than you can lift. ~Miss Piggy
If you wish to grow thinner, diminish your dinner. ~H.S. Leigh
Obesity is a mental state, a disease brought on by boredom and disappointment. ~Cyril Connolly, The Unquiet Grave
Probably nothing in the world arouses more false hopes than the first four hours of a diet. ~Dan Bennett
Obesity is really widespread. ~Joseph O. Kern II
