Michael Chiesa Quotes

I had started losing weight. I mean he didn't know anything about the journey that I was on at that point obviously but from my highest weight of just over 300 pounds I lost about 45 pounds.

There's no way to fake weight loss - you just kinda have to not eat.

I had trouble making weight before in my career.

I can easily cut 10 to 15 pounds without feeling like I'm killing myself.

I wanted to drop the weight class to go to the 125s, and I played it off on how easy it was going to be. 'I can do this, no problem, I always cut weight.' I pushed my body to the extreme.

I must cut lots of weight. Isn't nice, but it's part of my job and I can make it very easy.

I've never had a problem making featherweight. Of course, it wasn't easy, but it also was never an issue.

When you drop weight, the closer you come to the fight, the more your muscles tighten up.

I think between 2014 and 2015, I made weight five times in 11 months. During that time, I felt my body change. It was able to hold on to more weight. And anybody who makes weight knows that it gets harder and harder to make weight once you've done it that many times.

I lost a lot of weight, when I was 18, on Jenny Craig.

I hate dieting. Let's just say that.

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

I have this view that losing weight is easy, keeping it off is hard because keeping it off is the discipline.

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

If I have to get into a bikini, then I eat carrot sticks for three days.

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.

The first thing I would do for anyone who's trying to lose body fat, for instance, would be to remove foods from the house that he or she would consume during lapses of self-control.

You can't be fat and fast, too; so lift, run, diet and work.

I have been on a diet since 1962.

The weight comes off, you know? If you stop with the bread and the pie, it really does. It really works.

I have been on diets that were supervised by doctors, that were carefully supervised where I lost weight.

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

My dirty little secret is that I hate running. I don't like cardio. I also really like food, and all kinds of food - bread, chocolate, all of the yummy stuff. I up my cardio quite a bit and I start cutting out carbs, sugar, and salt just to try to get as lean as I can.

There are many, many people who have lost 100 pounds and kept it off.

Eating Paleo just leans you down and slims you up and takes that little layer of fat and water-weight right off your body.