quotations about diets & dieting
What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, is not much better than tedious disease.
GEORGE DENISON PRENTICE
Prenticeana
Oh yeah, the heartbreak diet.... Been there, done that, bought the T-shirt.
ALEXANDRA POTTER
Calling Romeo
Diets are like medicine. They should not be given to those for whom they are not prescribed.
MARGARET FINLEY
Good Eating
Dieting is not a cure; it is at most a temporary stopgap. Only the most determined, fanatical dieter can stay on a diet forever; therefore, inherent in a diet is the day the dieter will go off it, and when he or she does, the weight will return (usually much faster than it left).
SHARON GREENE PATTON
The Straight Scoop about Dieting
Stop dieting, start living.
BARBARA GODFREY
Stop Dieting
Women diet to retain their girlish figures or their boyish husbands.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
She'd even violated the only sensible rule of dieting she'd ever run across, the sage advice of the Muppets' Miss Piggy, who recommended never eating anything bigger than your head.
SUSAN DONOVAN
He Loves Lucy
Being exaltingly thin was, of course, the foundation for the visibility, the man, the adornments of this life-to-be; it was the prerequisite that made the rest of the dream possible. And since no matter how thin I got, I was frightened that I could wake up tomorrow and be fat again, the rest of the dream was forever ten or twenty pounds away.
GENEEN ROTH
Appetites: On the Search for True Nourishment
Dieting is like putting a bandage on a broken leg; when you remove the bandage, you still have the broken leg.
SHARON GREENE PATTON
The Straight Scoop about Dieting
I was put on a diet when I was 10. My mother said that women with smaller mouths are attractive, so keep my mouth small, don't talk or laugh so loud. I was taught to observe and listen.
MILCK
LA Weekly, January 15, 2019
No matter what we weigh, those of us who are compulsive eaters have anorexia of the soul. We refuse to take in what sustains us. We live lives of deprivation. And when we can't stand it any longer, we binge.
GENEEN ROTH
Women
Diets are like trains -- if you miss one, you can be sure another will be along in a very short time.
CAROLE SHAW
Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are
One swears by wholemeal bread, one by sour milk; vegetarianism is the only road to salvation of some, others insist not only on vegetables alone, but on eating those raw. At one time the only thing that matters is calories; at another time they are crazy about vitamins or about roughage. The scientific truth may be put quite briefly; eat moderately, having an ordinary mixed diet, and don’t worry.
SIR ROBERT GRIEVE HUTCHISON
Newcastle Medical Journal, Vol. 12, 1932
Simple diet is best: for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other.
PLINY
attributed, Day's Collacon
Diets are a game of chance that dieters play in order to maintain hope for a better life--with a thin body. To the compulsive eater, the diet is the only game in town. Game? We use the word cautiously and in the most ironic sense. This is a game in which the quality of people's lives is at stake. Chronic dieters are trapped in the diet-binge cycle and can't see beyond it. Their worlds have become narrow, focused on pounds lost and pounds regained. This painful preoccupation keeps them from truly living.
JANE R. HIRSCHMANN & CAROL H. MUNTER
Overcoming Overeating
Fad diets are like Internet spam comments that tell you how much money people make per year working from home. We know they are fake, but sometimes, we just want to believe them.
ALIDA NUGENT
You Don't Have to Like Me
One of the main effects of dieting is that it contributes to actual loss of control over eating. Dieting causes increases in the preoccupation with food, making food more attractive, it alters responses to food, resulting in certain foods becoming "forbidden," which triggers specific states of mind, and it causes mood changes. All these contribute to actual loss of control and result in the dieter eating more than she would have if she hadn't dieted in the first place.
JANE OGDEN
Fat Chance!