Michael Pollan Quotes

I won't eat past when I'm full. I think that's the problem some people have, they like a dish so much that they'll eat until it's completely gone and feel sick after. Me, if I feel full, ready, comfortable, I'll stop.

Stop short of your appetite; eat less than you are able.

I'm really conscious of the amount of food I eat, but I don't deny myself anything. For example, I have a really big sweet tooth. At the end of the night, if I'm craving ice cream, I might not have the bowl that I would have when I was a kid, but I'll put a couple of scoops in a coffee mug, and I'll eat it slowly, and I enjoy every moment of it.

As an athlete, you're brought up with that mentality that you finish everything you start. If you're going to start a meal, you're going to finish it until the plate is clean. I had to change that mentality to one of where, 'I eat until I'm full and leave the rest.'

My motto now is eat to live. Not live to eat.

I feel like you can eat everything that you want in moderation.

Stop eating before you're full.

At banquets surfeit not, but fill; partake, and retire; and eat not again till you crave.

Moderation. Small helpings. Sample a little bit of everything. These are the secrets of happiness and good health.

I try to eat well, but I don't deny myself the foods I love. I just eat them in moderation.

The art of Good Eating has two essential points: one must eat only when one is hungry, and one must take small bites.

Instead of piling up food in my fridge that says 'Come eat me!' I keep enough for only a couple of days. And I rarely have treats around that might tempt me late at night, which is when I usually crave something really fattening. What am I going to do? Drive out at 11 at night just to satisfy a craving? No, that's crazy.

Leave the table while you still feel you could eat a little more.

Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.

I eat what I want but in moderation.

Do not skip meals. Eat three meals a day and eat until you feel satisfied and comfortably full.

When it comes to eating, you can sometimes help yourself more by helping yourself less.

I've learned from my French husband and the way they eat, it's all about moderation. And that's really sustainable.

There are days when I literally have to eat 17 plates of food - it's intense. It's about moderation. You just need a few bites to get the gist of a dish.

I have a big appetite, and staying on top of that is about knowing myself and saying, 'I can eat that today, but tomorrow I'm not going to.'

If there's something in the kitchen I like, it must be eaten. I try not to leave any snacks I wouldn't want to eat on a daily basis in the cupboard.

The fact is, I diet every day of my life. I have to work at it. But I diet so I can pig out.

I don't diet. I just don't eat as much as I'd like to.

I've never believed in dieting, but there are people out there who have problems. My advice would be don't ever stop yourself to a point where you start craving something, because you end up bingeing. I think the key word is moderation.

One should eat to live, not live to eat.