Amanda Peet 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.

But if you pick up every other magazine, it is the peanut butter diet, or the cabbage soup diet, and then you go to the radio and you hear that you can drink some solution and you will lose weight overnight. It just does not work that way!

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

The fad diets are doing way more harm than good.

I used to eat what I want, on a junk diet, and used to think I could make my weight easy and kill myself over the last four or five days.

I'm kind of naturally thin, so if I were to completely crash diet, I'd almost be too skinny.

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

A big mistake people make when they are trying to lose weight is that they stop eating. They'll eat salads once a day and then their body starts trying to protect itself and holds onto the fat.

I dieted all the time in the Sixties, but we had no idea what dieting meant - we thought it meant not eating anything.

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.

You should not starve yourself with stupid diets, which I don't believe in anyway.

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 remember when the Atkins diet arrived; I lost 16 lb in the first month, but when I stopped, it all went back on again.

I don't believe in diets. I don't believe any diet ever works.

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.

In some ways it's hard not to be a bit cynical when a friend tells you about their fantastic new diet, because there's a fresh eating fad in the press every day.

The constant craze of size zero and crash diets is not very good.

I was on a starvation diet to look like I was near death in a film... but I went at it with a plan, and I had a guide; a nutritionist kind of helped me with it.

Be careful about what you eat because otherwise you get fat! Do you like to be fat? Eat very, very, very little things. Almost starve, but I don't starve, because I eat very much.

The dieting wars have got to stop.