Jay Chiat Quotes

I don't have a problem with being overweight. That's fine. But there's a thin line between being unhealthy and overweight.

He's so fat, he can be his own running mate.

My doctor told me that I really should lose some weight. "You're mildly obese," he said. And I thought, "Well, who couldn't afford to lose 20 or 30 pounds?" He said, "Well, a person in your category." I said, "What is that category, doctor?" He said, "Well, you're what I call upwardly middle aged." And I said, "I forgive you for everything."

Overweight and obesity is the second leading cause of death, killing 300,000 people a year, There is not a miracle pill that will lead to weight loss.

Your waist size should not be more than half your height.

It's not okay to be fat - not because of the way you look, but because it's unhealthy. I have experienced hormonal problems, bad skin, immense laziness, and back and knee pain. It's not fine to be too fat or too thin! Anything in extremes is wrong. I am afraid of putting on weight because I don't want to develop health problems.

I think Michelle Obama is on the right track with her Let's Move campaign to bring down childhood obesity. She and I come from the same state, Illinois, which is number four in the nation for obese children. One out of five Illinois children are considered obese. Not overweight, obese. And two-thirds of Americans are either overweight or obese.

Being overweight and obesity are major risk factors for many chronic diseases for South Dakotans of all ages. When people are overweight or obese, they have more health problems and more serious health problems, in addition to higher health care costs.

It became obvious in 1957 that I was endangering my health by carrying so much weight.

America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touching civilization.

I am a big man, but I've allowed my condition to deteriorate by being overweight.

I was 19 when my father died from a heart attack. He was a 55-year-old college professor and had led what was by all appearances a risk-free life. But he was overweight, and heart disease runs in our family.

In general, losing weight is a good thing for those who are overweight, but it's important to lose weight in a way that enhances your health rather than one that may compromise it.

I don't drink much soda; I don't buy Big Gulps, and my body mass index is right where it should be.

Perhaps the next and the next will inherit his virtues but in time the worst will take over.

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

The journey of shedding weight was tough, but the only good thing was it did not take a toll on my health.

I've always been a big guy. I weighed 220 pounds in the 5th grade.

What's worse? Being strung out or being fat?

We have always found that, if the principles were right, the area over which they were affected did not matter. Size is only a matter of the multiplication table.

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

When you gain weight, for every pound that you gain, it adds four pounds of stress on your knees. So if you gain five pounds, you've got 20 pounds of stress on your knees. So that's why I'm extremely careful with my portions and my workout, because I can't be overweight.

Me seemes the world is runne quite out of square,From the first point of his appointed sourse,And being once amisse growes daily wourse and wourse.

My doctor told me that I drastically needed to lose weight. Fear of death and dying motivated meto make many lifestyle changes that led me to eventually shed over 100 pounds.

I mean I've always been a big dude.