Joey Chestnut Quotes

I think I could survive a week without eating.

I don't know how my body would react if I don't eat for 10 days. In order to go through that experience, I almost did not eat or drink water for 15-20 days. I only had one carrot a day, a cup of black coffee, and a few sips of water.

There’s a difference between fasting for a week and starving for a week.

I hate dieting. Let's just say that.

I weighed 190 when I got to boot camp, I came out at 178. I ate only the beans and tomato sauce.

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

Simply restricting portions of the same disease-causing foods does not resolve the symptoms of toxic hunger.

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

Girls in L.A. don't eat anything! I'll say, 'You look hungry. I'm not kissing you till you're full because I'm afraid you're going to bite my lip.'

I never starved myself.

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.

I was gaining weight very rapidly and read about the idea of restricting carbohydrates as an alternative to going hungry. I had a big appetite, so that was the only thing I would even consider.

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.

I don't eat two days a week. And people are fascinated by it, but it works. If you cut two days of food out of your life you will lose weight.

Years ago, I used to skip breakfast altogether, wrongly thinking that if I didn't eat it, I might lose weight or something.

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

Any woman who diets all the time can't help but be grouchy. Nobody can be amusing or entertaining on a diet.

I tried a juice cleanse once, and by the third day, I wanted to kill everyone. I honestly don't even think it's healthy. It's not good for you to just drink juice. Like, if you detox for one or two days, fine, but a 10- or 14-day juice cleanse? You have headaches, and I was in the worst moods. I couldn't do it. Starving.

I don't believe in crash dieting.

I do not believe in starving myself.

I did a very stupid diet where you have three food groups, and you never eat them together. It's so bloody tedious; I'm losing the will to live just describing it. I managed to stay very thin because you spent your life wandering around starving hungry looking for a chickpea to go with a chicken leg.

Cutting weight is always rough, especially for guys like myself that make a significant cut to make a number.

I graduated from high school at 165 pounds, so twice a year, I get back to that number - I never let it get to 172-73. Then I go back to doubling the cardio. This week, I'm on a complete liquid diet, a juice fast. It keeps me lean and hungry.

A lot of times I went to sleep hungry, and not because I was cutting weight for a fight.

I had to cut weight a few years ago, and I felt like I'll be better if I was lighter. I felt like my conditioning would be better if I eat better.