Carnie Wilson Quotes

For the first time ever, overweight people outnumber average people in America. Doesn't that make overweight the average then? Last month you were fat, now you're average - hey, let's get a pizza!

I went from being a beanpole - like a normal kid of the 1950s - and exploded. The weight piled on and didn't stop until into my adulthood.

Obesity among young Americans is a serious problem that can have serious ramifications in the long run.

I just don't like being overweight.

Because I was always a fat child, I got fatter and fatter, and I ended up 18 stone and with a 40-inch waist.

I was fat because I lived in the Midwest in the 1970s, and everyone was a little fat then and only getting fatter.

There are definitions of morbid obesity. Doctors define it.

I don't have a problem with being overweight. That's fine. But there's a thin line between being unhealthy and overweight.

I've always been a big guy. I weighed 220 pounds in the 5th grade.

Sitting on that couch eating and gaining 20 pounds isn't exactly fun - there's only so much you can do.

Yes, I'm doing damage to my body now. The human body isn't designed to be this size.

There are less than 1 per cent of anorexic girls, but there more than 30 per cent of girls in France - I don't know about England - that are much, much overweight. And it is much more dangerous and very bad for the health.

When I was in high school I was 250 pounds.

It became obvious in 1957 that I was endangering my health by carrying so much weight.

How much obesity has to be created in a single decade for people to realize that diet has to be responsible for it?

The number of kids affected by obesity has tripled since 1980, and this can be traced in large part to lack of exercise and a healthy diet.

I come from a family that loves to eat, not exercise. Being fat made even walking hard.

Of course, I remember when everybody was thin. It wasn't until I went to America in the Sixties that I saw anyone who wasn't skinny thin.

It is not OK for anyone to be obese. There needs to be a cultural shift.

The people in power have created an obesity epidemic.

I couldn't open up a magazine, you couldn't read a newspaper, you couldn't turn on the TV without hearing about the obesity epidemic in America.

Everybody is getting a little bigger nowadays.

I still represent for overweight adults and kids, but I am also now painfully and personally aware of the health issues.

I used to play in the front row, I could eat whatever I want - but I got up to 97 kilograms. And let's remember I'm five foot bloody nothing!

I have never really been obese.