Donna Dixon Quotes

I wish I didn't like sweets as much as I do. I wish I didn't get carried away sometimes.

I miss being able to pig out sometimes.

I try not to diet because it never really works for me, if I tell myself I can't eat something then I tend to want to eat everything in sight.

I like to eat chocolate and pizza - that's my vice! - just like everyone else, but if I do it I have to keep it under control.

I can't walk by chocolate without eating it.

You know those days when you think you have to have a plate of pasta right now? When I'm trying to be good, I take a minute to ask myself, 'Do you really need to eat all this crazy stuff? It will still be around if you want it later.'

The truth is if you can eat just a serving size, you can eat anything. But we all know how those harmless treats can call out your name all night long, and rationalizing in the middle of the night is very easy.

If you know cookies are your weakness, don't even bring them in the house because, like me, you will eat them.

Try not to make every eating transgression at once. When I go out, I won't ever do both dessert and drinks. Just pick one.

I love cheese plates. Though I actually hate cheese plates. Because I can't say no to them.

When I'm on the road, I wake up early and walk a lot. I'm very healthy. But when I come back home, I am more tempted by guilty pleasures, such as eating too many sweets and sleeping a lot.

We ourselves hold the instrument that makes us fat. I just shake my head when I see someone eating cake and saying, 'Oh, I wish I wasn't heavy.' But they keep eating the cake!

A lot of foreign people say, when asking about eating habits, 'What is your guilty pleasure?' I have no guilt. Whatever I do, I enjoy and it's the point. I think if you start to feel guilty about it, that's a problem. So, no guilty pleasures. I have pleasure and no guilt at all.

Eating constitutes the greatest obstacle to self-control; it gives rise to indolence.

People only have guilty pleasures when they crowbar pleasure down their throat all the time and then they reach for the brownies. Then you should feel guilty because you're killing your body and that's something to be guilty about.

People's love of sweets and guilty feelings about overindulgence are pretty universal.

I don't define anything I eat as a vice.

It's very tempting to over-eat all the bad things when you're on a film set.

I once in a while cheat and have a little ice cream, and then I kind of blame myself.

The fact is, I diet every day of my life. I have to work at it. But I diet so I can pig out.

There are temptations around you all the time. The trick is to work your way through anxiety or your tiredness or whatever, and not let yourself get so hungry that you're going and stopping for the burgers, and you don't view it as reward. You're doing better for yourself is eating better food.

The best way to lose weight is to close your mouth - something very difficult for a politician. Or watch your food - just watch it, don't eat it.

I embrace treats, but I'm also very wary of treats. Treats help us feel energized, appreciated, and enthusiastic - but very often, the things we choose as 'treats' aren't good for us. The pleasure lasts a minute, but then feelings of guilt, loss of control, and other negative consequences just deepen the lousiness of the day.

But I don't do the diet thing anymore. I'm a big believer in feeding your body what it needs. Deny yourself something and you're going to end up shoving your face full of it.

At restaurants, I try to tell them not to bring the bread basket, but what's the point of going out to eat if I can't enjoy it?