Dave Barry Quotes

Nothing burns more calories than dancing in 5-inch heels... try it!

If you go on a calorie-reduced diet without increasing your level of exercise, at a certain point, your body will lose a little weight and then plateau. You need to trick your body to burn more fuel than you're ingesting so you can continue to lose weight.

For the vast majority of those who are obese - those with a Body Mass Index over 30 - their size is their choice. They choose to take in more calories than they burn. They choose to take in high fat calories over low-fat ones. They choose to fad diet, if they choose to diet at all.

So I'll go eat places and then I'll run it off in the show.

You hit 41 and you don't burn calories like you used to.

A mistake a lot of girls make is that they work out but don't eat enough. If you're not eating enough, all the work outs are doing, it's not going to show.

When you drive your car, E = mc2 is at work. As the engine burns gasoline to produce energy in the form of motion, it does so by converting some of the gasoline's mass into energy, in accord with Einstein's formula.

Every pound of muscle burns approximately 50 calories every day, just doing nothing.

I do a lot of cardio. I think it's super important, especially for women. I don't have a tremendous amount of time to work out, so I find myself cramming in a cardio because that's all I can fit in. I think that if you don't have a lot of time, that it's the cleanest way to burn a few calories.

You cannot out-exercise a bad diet.

We spend millions on fitness each year, yet we seem to get fatter.

If you’re not eating the right foods in the right amounts, all the exercise in the world won’t combat the caloric intake.

I think when you work out a lot, you can afford to eat more because your body's metabolism is higher.

I find the older one gets the harder it is to keep the weight off, even if one isn't eating very fattening foods. Once, I was able to put foods like those away, and they didn't show up on the bathroom scales the next morning. But that was when I was very physically active, travelling all over the world and burning up more calories.

I burned sixty calories. That should take care of a peanut I had in 1962.

Two of our favorite excuses for holding onto a few extra pounds and being out of shape: Too little time and too little money.

I'm the guy that is always in shape.

I don't want to look old in my advanced years so I go on a power walk for half an hour every day, and it helps to keep the pounds off.

I eat more when I'm not training as much. But I get in the gym, and when I feel my gut, I try to eat healthy for some of my meals.

I don't mess around when it comes to fitness.

I don't work out or watch what I eat - but I need to start so it doesn't catch up to me.

Running - it keeps me balanced, energetic, and primed for pasta intake.

I don't like to diet, so I work out with a trainer a few times a week. We do kickboxing and strengthening - it's hard! I also do yoga and love to walk everywhere. I live in Brooklyn, so walking is the best way to discover the city and the neighbourhoods.

I am not a fitness freak.

I want to make myself more marketable. Well, in order to do that, I need to lose some weight.