Sunita Williams Quotes

I've never even been out of my BMI range. I'm 5-foot-3. If I gain five pounds, it shows.

At one point I had to shove as much food in my body as possible to pack on calories. My trainer wanted me to do six meals a day and not go two hours without eating. If I would cheat on eating one day, I could tell - I'd drop a few pounds.

My normal weight category is 48 kg. So for the 51 kg. category, I had to depend on lots of food and drinks before going in for the weigh-in. But that does not make my strength, my muscles. It's a little bit different. If there's a 48 kg. category, it's a perfect fit for me.

Many of us are tethered to bodies that sabotage us in our struggle to keep from getting fat, or to slim down when we do.

I was realizing, 'I work out all the time. Why can't I drop this weight?' It's really food. So I started dieting a little.

I could never gain much weight. I've always had a fast metabolism.

Up until the age of 30 I could eat whatever I wanted - I mean, literally, I never put on a pound; if anything, I was criticised in the media for being too skinny.

The microgravity or the very, very low amount of gravity that we have up in space forces some changes in different processes. It forces changes in us as human beings.

My goal is just to get healthy as far as what my ideal weight has to be for my height.

We can all put weight on or lose weight.

I eat things I shouldn't eat all the time. I have to work out so I can enjoy myself! I like to run, and I'll do body weight stuff: push-ups, squats, lunges, pull-ups.

If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans, that you should be responsible for what you eat.

I don't want to get fat.

I've got to make sure I'm keeping weight on.

When I'm not on the road, I try to intake about 300 grams of protein a day, which is a lot. I got really into how your body absorbs it and how you feel and how crazy it is when you intake that much food and actually feel better, your brain works better, and you actually lose weight even though you're eating more. It's so methodical.

I pile on the weight when I work. All that location catering's not good for the love handles. I lose a bit when I'm not working, but I love my food and the occasional snifter.

I tend to be slim and you know, I actually can lose weight quicker than I can gain it.

Every health expert tells you to eat breakfast. I had the mentality, 'I'll save those calories!' But then you are starving, and you overeat.

In space, you need to exercise your heart since it's not pumping blood around at the same rate.

Mark Wahlberg's, like, 150 pounds! I'm 250 lean. I look like Mark Wahlberg ate Mark Wahlberg.

I want to lose weight because I want to be focused, meaning healthy.

People do really well on space missions, but it's the physiological, the medical stuff, the stuff like radiation, loss of bone mass and muscle mass and density. It's those things that we need to figure out.

I have never really been obese.

I cannot make 135 pounds healthily.

I could be 30 pounds heavier if I played football. But I play baseball, and I do Pilates.