Erma Bombeck Quotes

It's simple, if it jiggles, it's fat.

My body fat at 173 is five percent, so the rest is just straight water that I lose.

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!

I'm not against working out. It's just not effective for weight loss. I like strength training to tone and firm the body so you look tight. But working out just makes you hungrier.

I can easily cut 10 to 15 pounds without feeling like I'm killing myself.

I put on weight easily and lose it equally fast.

I am so broad and big-structured that even two kilos on me can look like gaining 10 kilos, and losing two kilos can also look like shedding 10 kilos.

If you eat every two hours, your body doesn't really hold much fat, and it actually speeds up your metabolism.

I'm 33 now and I seem to have hit a fitness plane. Shifting the wobbly bits isn't as easy as it used to be.

The first place I gain weight is in my rear end. I love my butt, but I have a tendency to get saddlebags there, so I need to watch it.

If I put on a few pounds, it goes straight to my butt.

The first thing I would do for anyone who's trying to lose body fat, for instance, would be to remove foods from the house that he or she would consume during lapses of self-control.

Muscle and water is critical in burning fat.

Now, my body fat runs around 18 percent, which is normal and, you know, kind of in the middle of normal, actually.

A year from now, you're gonna weigh more or less than what you do right now.

When your body absorbs toxins, it stores them in fat, which is why fiber and probiotics are strategic weapons for weight loss. Fiber keeps your colon healthy and reduces your body's absorption of toxins.

I have one of these bodies. When I was younger, I could never put weight on, and now that I'm a little older, there's a natural sort of chubbiness coming. But honestly, if I work out for a week, it drops off in no time.

I found that people like rules, and I love to tell people what to do. It's not rocket science when it comes to weight loss. It's about eating a little less and moving a little bit more.

Eating Paleo just leans you down and slims you up and takes that little layer of fat and water-weight right off your body.

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 always tell people you don't have to work out an hour every day, but I do make sure I sweat - I think that's the biggest key to weight loss.

Do I have fat cells on my body? Everybody has fat cells. Do I have more than most other athletes? Probably.

I went on a diet and went from 248 pounds to 211.

Just because your body is losing inches doesn't mean you're losing weight or vice versa. It's not about the weight: it's about building lean muscle, which is going to increase your metabolism and then allow you to lose weight quicker.