Graham Elliot Quotes

Dropping 25 pounds was something I was unsure about. It seemed like a pointless adventure, in a way.

Just eat less and exercise more.

I have this view that losing weight is easy, keeping it off is hard because keeping it off is the discipline.

I think most diets are torture, which is why I don't believe in them. But, as is true with exercise, when you make a change and feel the benefits, you want to stick with it.

If you want to lose weight, you have to be obsessed with it. You can't depend upon your dietician, your trainer or various health aids that you have. You have to be organised. And believe me, it isn't that difficult. The first 10 days are terrible because you have to break the lifelong habits that you have made.

My reason and inspiration to lose weight and stay fit is my youngest son, Anant, who is fighting obesity. I would like to be an example for him.

You don't need to stick to tough rules or overnight changes; you need not rely on hardcore discipline that makes you hate your life. You need only focus on progress, not perfection. Lean in to the process of losing weight, and it will happen easily.

I don't expect to be thin, but I'd like to feel a bit healthier.

At the age of thirty-seven, I was fat, and since the age of thirty-eight, I have never been fat again. That's the whole idea of effective weight loss - it's permanent because it's part of your lifestyle and the way you think about yourself, with pride and a sense of accomplishment. The goal you achieve is your own - you own it.

It takes about four days of virtuous living to create a little weight loss. That also happens to be the time required to get used to eating less. In other words, if you can get past day three of a fitness regimen, things improve.

I recently lost 50 pounds. I'm hovering on the cusp of a size eight, which seems unbelievable.

Successful weight management really means a permanent change in lifestyle - and success in this arena provides that person with a great opportunity to model that behavior for friends and family.

After the second and final time that I got hugely fat in my life and when I lost that weight six or seven years ago, I pretty much decided that I was going to stay in decent shape for the rest of my life.

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

During this quarantine I've been dieting, getting my weight down, getting in shape.

It was challenging getting myself into the mindset to lose the weight. Once I got there, the weight dropped off quickly.

Americans get fatter and fatter and buy more and more diet books, but you don't lose weight by buying diet books - you go on a diet. It's easy to read a diet book, but it's hard to go on a diet.

I must cut lots of weight. Isn't nice, but it's part of my job and I can make it very easy.

It take me one year to lose all that weight. Look, it takes a long time to put it in; it takes a long time to take it off. It's a struggle in the beginning, and then you get used to it. I work also with a nutritionist, and she helped me. She became a friend.

I am someone who is a fitness freak, I wouldn't skip the gym and eat whatever I want because I have to look fit.

Well, we're on a never-ending quest to slim down. It's just very difficult for us.

Eat what you want to eat, but just be willing to pay the price. If you know you want to eat more cake or more cookies, be willing to work out a lil bit more. I think that's the problem people have is you want to eat bad, but yet you don't want to pay the price to work it off.

I'm never going to be fat - never again. I'm going to make it easy on my pallbearers.

I like to work out every day. I run, walk, do machines. I'm not neurotic about food. My rule is, don't let yourself get over a certain weight. If you gain 5lb, stop before it gets worse.

Getting up at 6 A.M. to run is something that keeps you on the straight and narrow.