Deborah Mailman Quotes

I don't really know why I'm not thinner than I am.

One of the biggest struggles of my life is my weight. My weight is always going up and down, and I'm always fighting that, and I think that no matter what I do, I'm never going to look good enough to everybody else.

I'm no stranger to weight issues. I've had cellulite since I was about nine years old. I have enjoyed the uber support of Spanx many times.

I'm going to let myself off the hook, because if there's one thing that is not my focus at the moment, it's how much I weigh.

Sometimes I wish I were just magically a size 6 and I never had to give it a single thought.

I don't get hung up on weight.

My weight has been an emotional roller-coaster for me, and I am ready to get off it.

I've been overweight all my life.

I am not even trying to become size zero. My problem was that I hated to see myself putting on weight when I could see others around me slim and trim and looking great. It was affecting me mentally.

I absolutely didn't think, 'I am really fat, I must get thinner.'

Weight was a big thing for me to overcome.

I'm just a fat guy.

Even at the times that I've pushed myself to exhausting limits to get myself at my lightest weight, I did not feel comfortable in that skin.

I figured being fat was my destiny.

You take away the handicap of obesity, and this person becomes someone else. Take a jolly fat man for instance. You talk to him, and his heart is breaking. He wants to be thin.

I have been a big guy all my life, I am not going to lose a bunch of weight, because then you're like that weird fat person that got skinny but still has a big head. I don't want to do that. So I'm just trying.

I used to beat myself up about weight and working out, and no matter what I did I never felt good about myself. I decided to accept myself and know that I am good.

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.

I wish I had thrown out the bathroom scale at age 16. Weighing yourself every morning is like waking up and asking Dick Cheney to validate your sense of inner worth.

I just don't like being overweight.

Some of my battles with weight have been very public. But most of them have been internal. Even at my thinnest, when my body was being praised, I wasn't happy with what I saw in the mirror or how I felt about myself.

I don't mind being slightly fat-ish, I just don't want to be fat.

If I go on a diet and work out, I'm always in a bad mood. I'd rather be a little heavier but nice.

A few years ago, I thought, I'll never make it. I started to go to the doctor to help me lose weight.

I was just sick of being fat, you know? You get sick of it. It just really, it's a tiring lifestyle to have.