Justine Bateman Quotes

For many years, I was obsessed about what I was eating, how many calories it had, and how much exercise I'd have to do.

I've never had body issues, I've never had an eating disorder. I've never had to go on a diet and that's because of Weight Watchers.

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

I once dieted so religiously I quit eating in church.

I never, ever, restrict food, and I will never go on a diet ever again.

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.

I looked at him nonplussed. I realized that I have spent so many years being on a diet that the idea that you might actually need calories to survive has been completely wiped out of my consciousness. Have reached point where believe nutritional idea is to eat nothing at all, and that the only reason people eat is because they are so greedy they cannot stop themselves from breaking out and ruining their diets.

If you're trying to lose weight, you just have to eat less. I mean that.

After working with many nutritionists, reading books, and practicing trial and error on my own body, I have finally found a way to control my weight without deprivation. I call my program 'Somersizing,' and Somersizing is not a diet. Diet is a nasty four-letter word that conjures up negative thoughts of sacrifice and obsession and guilt.

'Freedom dieters' often do well with programs that incorporate pretty basic rules, like intermittent fasting - simply don't eat for X period of time, then eat healthy foods. Very simple.

The mind can be but full. It will be as much filled with a small disagreeable occurrence, having no other, as with a large one.

After trying Atkins and doing Nutrisystem a few times, now I'm just focused on maintaining a healthy lifestyle rather than dieting.

In the 20 long, hungry years between my late teens and late 30s I bought in to virtually every new diet and/or exercise regime that hoved into view, particularly at this most vulnerable time for those of us prone to poor body image - a new year.

For several years I had no idea that I had become anorexic. And I'd be at places with people I cared about, but what I was thinking about was how much extra grease was on the pizza or the calories that I knew was in that shake.

I don't believe in diets, and no one should.

Where do you go to get anorexia?

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

I don't believe in diets. I don't believe any diet ever works.

Honestly, I never thought I would ever tell anyone that I had an eating disorder. It was my deepest, darkest secret.

I generally only eat one meal a day, which is pretty unusual for a restaurant reviewer. It's not that I have a problem with food; I'll eat anything that doesn't involve a bet, a dare, or an initiation ceremony.

I don't eat two days a week. And people are fascinated by it, but it works. If you cut two days of food out of your life you will lose weight.

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

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

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

You just don't eat until you feel like you're gonna throw up at every meal and all of a sudden the weight falls right off.