Mike Ditka Quotes

When I make a change, like when I found out I had high cholesterol, I just changed my lifestyle.

Eating properly is great. I mean you cut the fat down, cut the cholesterol out, but still you got to get your rest and you got to have some form of exercise.

When I saw contestants fighting for their lives on 'The Biggest Loser,' I realized I just wanted to be healthy - to have fun playing soccer with my son or teaching my daughter to shoot hoops. Then it was so much easier to say no to carbs, soda, or dessert, and the weight just came off.

I want to encourage people to make healthy life choices, whether it's training for a half-marathon, or eating more vegetables.

I know what I have to do if I want to lose weight and stay healthy: eat a proper diet and exercise. All I've got to do is apply it.

It's challenging, but you have to at least try to eat right and exercise.

Actually, I've been a fanatical health nut for five years.

No matter how healthy you are today, you can take specific actions to have more energy and live longer.

My job is to be fit and I'm really blessed that I get to go and work out and live a really healthy lifestyle.

We must not constantly talk about tackling obesity and warning people about the negative consequences of obesity. Instead we must be positive - positive about the fun and benefits to be had from healthy living, trying to get rid of people's excuses for being obese by tackling the issue in a positive way.

Lifestyle change and changes in diet work faster, better and more cheaply than any medication and are as effective or more effective than gastric bypass without any side effects or long-term complications.

If you want to be right-sized in body, you've got to get rid of the supersize way of life.

I believe that you should move and eat right.

The real pride, the real present, is your health and your longevity. My whole career, I have never done anything where competition was involved with weight loss.

Based on eating everyday foods in specific combinations, Somersizing is a lifestyle that will change your way of thinking about how to lose weight and how to increase your energy. Eating the Somersize way is a pleasure. It is a program for life, a program I will happily live on for the rest of my life.

I have high blood sugars, and Type 2 diabetes is not going to kill me. But I just have to eat right, and exercise, and lose weight, and watch what I eat, and I will be fine for the rest of my life.

It's cool to be healthy.

I also started to eat sensibly. The weight just dropped off.

There's enough data showing that the fitter you are, the better you eat, the more likely you are to stay healthy longer.

The best diet is the one that can be sustained over the long term, combined with other healthful lifestyle behaviors.

I eat right and stay healthy as much as possible.

My advice for anyone looking to lose weight is to not make it feel like a job.

Health is correlated with quality of life. If you get regular physical activity, have social connections, control your cholesterol, keep your blood pressure at a normal level, don't smoke - these things can make an enormous difference not only in how long you live, but how much you enjoy your life in those years.

Stop turning to fad diets and use common sense.

Whatever I can do for the longevity of my life, I'm going to do.