Erma Bombeck Quotes

While fad diets might seem like the quick-fix solution to lose weight, they won't help you get healthy in the long run.

My recipes aren't geared towards women; my books are marketed towards women because women are the biggest market for weight loss, weight management and weight maintenance and for cooking.

Brand-new research suggests that the faster you take weight off, the longer you keep it off. Now that's a reason for dieters everywhere to rejoice.

Could you physically lose 10 pounds in 2 weeks? Maybe. But there's no way you could do that in a healthy way or that you could maintain it.

Because I cook a lot, I wanted to write a recipe book, really incorporating the message that you don't have to starve yourself to be reasonably skinny.

the illusion never really dissipates that you can lose twenty pounds in one night by cutting out dinner.

My weight often fluctuates by half a stone.

Don't talk about your diet. It's just boring, and the last thing you need when dieting is to be considered boring.

And anyway, the first three letters in the word diet should tell you what I want it to do.

The biggest seller is cookbooks and the second is diet books - how not to eat what you've just learned how to cook.

I dont think a really good pie can be made without a dozen or so children peeking over your shoulder as you stoop to look in at it every little while.

Delia was an overbearing cake with condescending frosting, and frankly, I was on a diet.

If you want to lose a bit of weight, don't eat anything out of a bucket.

The first, indeed the only, requirement of a diet is that it should lose you weight without reducing your alcoholic intake by the smallest degree.

When a man diets, he eats oatmeal in addition to everything else he usually eats.

You cannot just work out and then eat poorly and expect to lose weight. It doesn’t work that way.

On this twelfth day of my diet I would rather die satiated than slim.

Forget about calories - everything makes thin people thinner, and fat people fatter.

I know I looked skinnier in The House Bunny, but thanks to my diet of beer and doughnuts, I'm back to my fightin' weight!'

More diets start in dress shops than in doctors' offices.

Since I don't have access to the White House pastry chef anymore, it's done wonders for my figure.

Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose!

No carbs after lunch is one of the hardest (rules) to follow. But if you follow this rule YOU WILL lose weight

Once you've been overweight you never want to be overweight again, so you keep going, keep going, like for any addiction. Health can be an addiction, it doesn't have to be drugs or alcohol.

You know, really - actually, it's funny because it's a sore spot with me because I have all these recipes that, you know, you have to measure things out and put them in. And then you bake it and it becomes this thing. And it's not a recipe.