Tim Ferriss Quotes

You can't get rid of it with exercise alone. You can do the most vigorous exercise and only burn up 300 calories in an hour. If you've got fat on your body, the exercise firms and tones the muscles. But when you use that tape measure, what makes it bigger? It's the fat!

What you want is to rev up your metabolism so that you are burning fat and calories, not preserving fat and calories.

Three mornings a week, I exercise before eating - it's called 'fasted cardio' - to burn fat.

I like intervals. I will turn a walk into a workout. For example, I walk for five minutes at an easy pace, then power-walk for two minutes and repeat. Intervals blast the fat.

I eat right and ensure that I burn it all by working out equally as much as I eat.

I like doing Zumba. I only do it like, once a week. If I did it more often, I would be very skinny.

Having - and keeping to - a regular exercise routine is crucial. And forget about those extreme diets - they aren't healthy.

I freak out if I go a little too long without being in the gym. For a long time it was all about getting the weight off because I was 240 pounds at my heaviest, and now I'm around 175, so the majority of that weight loss was due to diet and exercise.

People are still grasping for the miracle, and unfortunately, there are no miracles, if you do not exercise for a year, and let your body remain dormant, then you will gain weight.

Well, every time I get ready to do a job I want to lose weight.

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.

Everything is a process... some of our eating habits consist of things we can't change, but if we modify it a little and put some exercise in there, we can really make a difference.

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.

The very gradual reductions in my weight which I am able to show, may be interesting to many, and I have great pleasure in stating them, believing that they serve to demonstrate further the merit of the system pursued.

Exercise is one of the best ways in preventing the rapid growth of obesity in America.

A lot of people are doing something about their weight, but by their own reckoning, it isn't enough to get the results they want.

It's easier to stay in shape than to fluctuate.

I'm definitely up in weight. I'm looking forward to getting an exercise routine again. It's like a daily decision.

Many people struggle with losing weight and then regaining it. But there is no convincing evidence that the effort to lose weight actually promotes more weight gain in the long run.

They sent me to these places to get the weight off. The diets never worked; the diets actually made it worse.

I have been trying to lose weight for the last two-three months and it has gone really well. In the last 6-12 months I have been in the best form in quite a while.

I'm done with 'Biggest Loser.'

The most important thing I want to get across is that maintaining weight loss is just hard. It takes a dedication to exercise and eating right most of the time.

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

After the second and final time that I got hugely fat in my life and when I lost that weight six or seven years ago, I pretty much decided that I was going to stay in decent shape for the rest of my life.