Richard Simmons Quotes

I don't know if those things work, where you do, like, this crash diet or crash starvation. It's just not something I've ever been into.

A crash diet never works. You lose weight one day and add it the next.

I am not naturally that thin, so I had to go through everything from using drugs to diet pills to laxatives to fasting. Those were my main ways of controlling my weight.

People want gimmicks. They have to lose 10 pounds by 8:30 tonight.

I think all diets are kind of weird. The word 'die' is in it.

I've probably tried every fad diet in the world.

I remember when the Atkins diet arrived; I lost 16 lb in the first month, but when I stopped, it all went back on again.

If you continually diet, you are putting your body in a quasi-famine situation. It slows your metabolism down and breaks the thermostat. Diets don't work. They don't help you understand why you're eating more than your body wanted in the first place.

My biggest regret is putting my body through fad diets - Atkins, cleanses, the hCG diet.

I don't do fad things or diets - they don't work.

I don't believe in diets. I don't believe any diet ever works.

In some ways it's hard not to be a bit cynical when a friend tells you about their fantastic new diet, because there's a fresh eating fad in the press every day.

Steer clear of fad diets.

the illusion never really dissipates that you can lose twenty pounds in one night by cutting out dinner.

While fad diets might seem like the quick-fix solution to lose weight, they won't help you get healthy in the long run.

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

The dieting wars have got to stop.

I once ate nothing but grapefruit for an entire month. I didn't lose a pound.

A big mistake people make when they are trying to lose weight is that they stop eating. They'll eat salads once a day and then their body starts trying to protect itself and holds onto the fat.

After my experiences with the 5:2 diet, I wasn't interested in a short-term fix that would fail later. I wanted a way of eating that made me lose weight without feeling deprived.

I didn't think I was fat. I just thought I didn't need to gain any weight. But I would drop weight and then I would be comfortable with that number. Then I would lose more weight and that would become my new number.

After trying Atkins and doing Nutrisystem a few times, now I'm just focused on maintaining a healthy lifestyle rather than dieting.

Statistically, if you have ever dieted you are extremely likely not only to regain any weight you lose, but to go on to gain even more. Dieting makes you fat.

Many people struggle with losing weight and then regaining it. But there is no convincing evidence that the effort to lose weight actually promotes more weight gain in the long run.

Stop turning to fad diets and use common sense.