Sandi Toksvig Quotes

Many people struggle with losing weight and then regaining it. But there is no convincing evidence that the effort to lose weight actually promotes more weight gain in the long run.

In the fall of 2012 I did drop some weight, and then it all came back on and then some, just like the average person who deals with this goes through.

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.

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.

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've done everything every fat person ever has. I've tried every diet.

I just don't lose weight easily.

I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.

Even low-calorie diets and vigorous exercise fail to work in the long term for at least some people.

I think diets are ridiculous because eventually you have to stop, and then what? You put all the weight back on.

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

The first thing I did on my diet was take the batteries out of the remote control and make myself get up and change the channel. That's probably the hardest exercise I did.

I think the hardest thing is losing weight. That's the hardest thing more than anything else.

Atkins - I was on that for two weeks. All I lost was 14 days.

I find it so hard to lose weight: it takes me weeks and weeks of dieting and training just to lose three pounds.

I don't subscribe to that no-carb thing. I'm so sick of the Atkins diet and all that. First of all, if you're not eating carbs, all you do is think about them. It's one of those things that you take out, and initially, you lose weight, but you are miserable.

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

It's much harder to lose weight as you get older.

Mine is the least fat diet in the world.

I did my famous cabbage soup diet, so I was able to do it.

Instead of trying to increase your metabolism with the goal of losing weight, try to slow your metabolism with a low-calorie, high-nutrient diet for a longer, healthier life.

People want gimmicks. They have to lose 10 pounds by 8:30 tonight.

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

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

I'm obsessed with cheese and milk, but eliminating them from my diet made the biggest difference. In a month and a half, I lost 11 pounds just from not eating dairy, without doing anything else different, and that totally blew my mind.