Daphne Oz Quotes

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

Once you have to start counting calories, it takes away from the joy of eating.

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

Diets - the ultimate empty promise perpetuating the same cycle over and over again. We've all been victims of yo-yo dieting. We stick to some diets longer than others, but c'mon, just how much cabbage soup can a person eat?

I've pretty much always been on a diet since I was born. And the women in my family struggle, so I find the less I think about food, in a way, the happier I am. In general, I think I eat less the less I think about it.

The diet is a twisted, noxious thing, all tortured abstinence and short-term fraud. I speak from bitter experience. As a restaurant critic, I eat to live and live to eat. And having a toxic aversion to exercise, there is little to prevent the inevitable bulging of my gut. Hence the need for the occasional diet.

Ultimately, for me, weight is something I have to deal with every year, but I do it with food because I love food. But it's a struggle; it's something that I think about.

I've been on every diet in the world. I've been on Slim-Fast. For breakfast you have a shake. For lunch, you have a shake. For dinner, you kill anyone with food on their plate.

The trouble with dieting is that a pound of will power takes off only an ounce of weight.

The only think I like better than talking about Food is eating.

I love eating. I mean, I really, really love eating.

Food is intensely pleasurable, and people are afraid that if they change the way they eat, they'll stop having pleasure.

With the exception of octopus, I don't think I've met any food that I didn't like. And by the way, sometimes I do like octopus. I'm just not crazy about it by itself. I love sea urchin. I love uni. If I'm going to die of anything, it's going to be gluttony.

Everything that has to do with food is sensuous. In the United States, however, we are eating all the time. We have a problem with obesity. And yet, we don't enjoy food that much.

I just love food, period.

I've done every diet there is.

I hate diets and I love eating.

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.

It was between the ages of 14 and 20 and I started off not eating at all, maybe an apple a day.

It is so discouraging to have your weight yo-yo.

Ever since I was little, I loved to eat. I started eating when I wasn't hungry. My weight has always been up and down.

I have tried every diet to lose weight. When you restrict yourself, you're setting yourself up for failure.

I love to eat. I could make a professional sport out of it.

I'm only happy when people are eating.

I'm off the diet, but not the treadmill. I speak as someone who's attempted to lose weight and get fit thrice before in my life.