Ben Miller Quotes

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.

So I would always try and be the lightest I could. In high school, I really wouldn't eat. I would only have lunch and I would only have salads. And then it got so crazy as to just eating like a cracker or a cucumber a day and I would feel full.

She used to diet on any kind of food she could lay her hands on.

My biggest regret is putting my body through fad diets - Atkins, cleanses, the hCG diet.

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 know if those things work, where you do, like, this crash diet or crash starvation. It's just not something I've ever been into.

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

The worst diets are ones that restrict your calories too much and try to trick your body. You have no energy, and it's ridiculous.

For four to six months at a time, I would barely eat. I lived on a diet of Melba toast, carrots, and black coffee.

I could easily go one or two days without realizing that I'm so, so hungry. That's the negative outcome of what I've become.

It was between the ages of 14 and 20 and I started off not eating at all, maybe an apple a day.

The fad diets are doing way more harm than good.

A crash diet never works. You lose weight one day and add it the next.

I am not naturally that thin, so I had to go through everything from using drugs to diet pills to laxatives to fasting. Those were my main ways of controlling my weight.

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

I started dieting. I dieted, dieted, dieted and tried all the diets and I would lose and then I would go back to normal eating and would put it on and then some.

People are unhappy when they are on diets, because it's 'don't do this, don't do that, do this, do that.'

I never starved myself.

I've pretty much always been on a diet since I was born. And the women in my family struggle, so I find the less I think about food, in a way, the happier I am. In general, I think I eat less the less I think about it.

You just don't eat until you feel like you're gonna throw up at every meal and all of a sudden the weight falls right off.

I'm probably throwing down close to 10,000 calories. And then I don't eat for three or four days.

Ninety percent of people who lose weight gain it back. It's very sad.

I did every diet: Atkins. Cabbage-soup diet. Dean Ornish. But I couldn't live the rest of my life like a rabbit.

I think all diets are kind of weird. The word 'die' is in it.

Once you have to start counting calories, it takes away from the joy of eating.