Alison Sweeney Quotes

I think most diets are torture, which is why I don't believe in them. But, as is true with exercise, when you make a change and feel the benefits, you want to stick with it.

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 love to eat and I don't believe in denying myself, so I have to work out. I'm not obsessed with it, I don't have a trainer or do any of the fancy classes, but I usually put on my iPod and run on the treadmill for an hour a few days a week.

I used to be able to slim down just by exercising more, but that's changed.

I never want to try to be a spokesperson for health and wellness because I most definitely am not the most in shape person in the world.

I'm like everybody: I gain the Christmas 10 or so, and then I try to exercise more and dial it back.

I don't take rest days.

I have been going to the gym instead of the bar, trying to get back down to my fighting weight.

People can say whatever they want about the sport of bodybuilding, but to get prepared to do a contest or even think about doing a contest, or even to get into decent shape, it requires a certain amount of discipline, and it comes from taking a new year's resolution to a lifestyle.

People who are fit are the same as anyone else. The only difference is their level of commitment. If looking good and being fit was easy, everyone would do it! Most people don't want to put in the work or make the sacrifices needed in order to be fit.

Every day I spend time on the treadmill. I am walking faster, stronger and harder than I was two months ago.

I'm obviously not a guy who focuses on weight too much. But for certain jobs, you have to gain or lose weight.

I'm getting fat... because my size, I put on 20 or 30 pounds, it doesn't show very much... I'm thinking about going back to work out in a very short time.

It's so much easier just to eat and work out than not eat and work out like crazy.

I've got a book coming out soon so I just must get some weight off.

I went from 220 pounds that I cut down for 'Moneyball' to almost 270-280 pounds for 'Ten Year.'

I go to the gym a lot, and I see these guys, these young actors or models there, really punishing themselves - I mean, just killing themselves. And then I'll see one of them on a billboard, with the artfully messy hair, looking as though it's just natural and easy to have a body like that.

I don't excercise. If God had wanted me to bend over, he would have put diamonds on the floor.

You have to find something that you want to accomplish, that you want to achieve. You want to drop 15 pounds. You want to be able to run four miles. There has to be some goal that you set for yourself and, after you've reached that goal, you set a new one. You always have to be shooting for something, striving for something.

I used to be a workout fiend and I was so unhappy because I wanted to eat what I wanted to eat. So now if I know I have to be in a bikini, I'll obviously watch what I eat for a week.

Some people are great at dieting and train somewhat inconsistently - for those people, getting on a great training program and following it will be the best thing for you.

When I did 'Dancing with the Stars' I did lose an awful lot of weight and I think at the time everybody was sort of alarmed by it. You can eat anything and it is still dropping off you when you are doing that amount of exercise.

There was a little less pressure to be fit on 'The Avengers' than 'Captain America.' I had just finished 'Captain America,' so I was already built. Plus, 'Captain America' has that one scene dramatic scene where my transformation is revealed. 'The Avengers' has not one shirtless scene.

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

I like to swim, I like to play with my dogs and I love to eat - but I have to start watching that because my suits are getting too small.