Susie Orbach Quotes

Statistically, if you have ever dieted you are extremely likely not only to regain any weight you lose, but to go on to gain even more. Dieting makes you fat.

I did a very stupid diet where you have three food groups, and you never eat them together. It's so bloody tedious; I'm losing the will to live just describing it. I managed to stay very thin because you spent your life wandering around starving hungry looking for a chickpea to go with a chicken leg.

I don't know if those things work, where you do, like, this crash diet or crash starvation. It's just not something I've ever been into.

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

My biggest regret is putting my body through fad diets - Atkins, cleanses, the hCG diet.

I once ate nothing but grapefruit for an entire month. I didn't lose a pound.

I started dieting. I dieted, dieted, dieted and tried all the diets and I would lose and then I would go back to normal eating and would put it on and then some.

She used to diet on any kind of food she could lay her hands on.

'The 17 Day Diet' keeps your body and metabolism guessing. I call this 'body confusion.'

I used to eat what I want, on a junk diet, and used to think I could make my weight easy and kill myself over the last four or five days.

I would never recommend going on a crash diet. Drastically reducing your calorie intake can cause numerous problems, and your body will store fat because you have sent it into starvation mode. I eat every two hours to maintain my blood sugar levels.

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

People think that you can save calories by eating fewer meals a day, but it works just the opposite: the fewer meals you eat, the more counterproductive it becomes to you being able to lose weight.

I think all diets are kind of weird. The word 'die' is in it.

A big mistake people make when they are trying to lose weight is that they stop eating. They'll eat salads once a day and then their body starts trying to protect itself and holds onto the fat.

After my experiences with the 5:2 diet, I wasn't interested in a short-term fix that would fail later. I wanted a way of eating that made me lose weight without feeling deprived.

The worst diets are ones that restrict your calories too much and try to trick your body. You have no energy, and it's ridiculous.

The idea behind diet confusion is, you have to keep your body off-kilter. So by changing the type of foods that you eat, the frequency of the foods that you eat, you can keep your metabolism revved up.

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

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.

You have to diet before you even go to shoot in Chicago because we just eat the entire time.

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.

I graduated from high school at 165 pounds, so twice a year, I get back to that number - I never let it get to 172-73. Then I go back to doubling the cardio. This week, I'm on a complete liquid diet, a juice fast. It keeps me lean and hungry.

A lot of people say, 'OK, I'm overweight, so I'm not going to eat any food; I'm only going to have an apple a day,' but then your body will go into starvation mode, so what you've got to do is increase your metabolism.

I used to think that in order to be lean, I had to under-eat.