J. K. Rowling Quotes

You know you're getting fat when your socks don't fit.

It's weird because people think the biggest guys are the biggest eaters, but fat doesn't expand as much as muscle, so you want someone with a big frame who can expand.

I was a weed. Such a skinny little weed. I just couldn't put on weight; I couldn't put on muscle. I was the oddest shape. And I thought that was it: that's how I'd look for the rest of my life. And I'd beat myself up about it so much. But you change an awful lot. You're 16. Your body's not even halfway to what it'll end up being.

The rise of childhood obesity has placed the health of an entire generation at risk.

I went from being a beanpole - like a normal kid of the 1950s - and exploded. The weight piled on and didn't stop until into my adulthood.

My wife is a size zero and eats more than I do, and I'm a 6'4", 225 lb. man!

Generally, the more weight you put on, the less effective you are.

Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in.

Of course, I remember when everybody was thin. It wasn't until I went to America in the Sixties that I saw anyone who wasn't skinny thin.

When I grew up in France, I was a normal size. And then I came to the United States and I gained 20 pounds.

Basically, what happened was, I had moved out to Los Angeles, I was pretty damn lazy and I put on some pounds.

I put on weight like Santa Claus. I just get this belly that kind of extends out.

I weighed 25 stone, and I didn't stand nine feet tall, so the weight didn't sit well on me. As big as a house? No. I was as big as an estate.

My bottom is so big it's got its own gravitational field.

I started to put on weight when I was about four and a half and it got really bad when I was around nine. I ballooned. I was about 110 pounds.

Everybody is getting a little bigger nowadays.

I don't know where I got this size. Good nutrition, I guess.

I was a very fat baby.

At 26 or 27, I was fatter than anyone.

I'm only 5ft 2in so a significant increase in weight is really going to be noticed.

When I graduated high school, I was 6-5 and 305. I think I swallowed a magic bean pill.

As time has gone on, I've gotten bigger and bigger. My body composition has changed.

You know you're getting fat when you step on the dog's tail and he dies.

In a key--but commonly overlooked--aspect of obesity, weight gain can be caused by the slightest increases in consumption, if it continues day in and day out.

They call me Ricky Fatton. Mind you I've had a lot on my plate recently. I got measured for this suit the other week. They measured my pants, jacket, top to bottom. Bloody hell Ricky you're a Mark F they said, a size up from a marquee.