Marilu Henner Quotes

Packing lunches and going over menus is a great way to make small changes in the way your kids eat.

On a really good day, if I'm really trying, in the morning I'll have a piece of toast, vitamins and nuts, or a bagel with a little cream cheese. Then at lunch time, I'll get me one of those Chinese chicken salads, a glass of juice, and a big glass of water.

I live by this rule - breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper.

So I have the green smoothie every day for breakfast, and then sometimes even for lunch too, and then I have a normal dinner.

I wasn't eating the right kinds of calories. I didn't know about healthy carbs such as brown rice and lentils. Now I eat small meals throughout the day: oatmeal with cinnamon to start, fruit and yogurt as a snack, and vegetables or with chicken or tuna, and a healthy carb, like a yam, for lunch.

Quantity in diet is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry.

Eating has to be fun.

I eat three meals a day and three juices a day.

I have a very pragmatic approach to diets. Ones you can't stick to don't do you any good. Some people say, 'Just eat half of what's on your plate,' but I can't do that!

During the day I force myself to at least eat some salads rather than rubbish, and a steak in the evening. In fact, I eat to basically satisfy my hunger. I hardly have the time to appreciate a meal, and I'm everything, but a gourmet.

I still take my own lunches to work. That way I can control what I'm eating, as opposed to another doughnut.

We're all bombarded with so many dietary messages that it's hard to find time to sort through all this information, but we do have time to take a look at our kids' plates.

You can do something as simple as drinking two cups of water before a meal to fill your belly a bit so that you don't overeat, or change up your cheese from dairy to nondairy.

Before you open the lunch menu or order that cheeseburger or consider eating the cake with the frosting intact, haul out the psychic calculator and start tinkering with the budget.

I quite often don't have breakfast, and I never have lunch. I find it helps not to wake my stomach up because if I had a good big breakfast, I would be ready for a snack at 11 and then a three-course lunch, then I'd be ready for tea, then a cocktail and then an enormous dinner.

I've learned from my French husband and the way they eat, it's all about moderation. And that's really sustainable.

Dieting is becoming easier and easier for me because I'm finding out things that I love.

I still love to eat, and my diet isn't perfect.

My mornings go by so fast I forget breakfast. Lunch - that's turned out to be my biggest meal. I like tuna fish with low-fat mayonnaise and celery, egg whites and garlic. It's delish.

I find the less attention I pay to food, the healthier I am.

I have to eat in a way that's good for me.

I eat well, but I don't believe in diets.

I do practice what I preach when it comes to nutrition.

I try my best to be extremely disciplined about my diet.

I eat a lot. I eat three times a day and I snack.