Arabella Weir Quotes

If you continually diet, you are putting your body in a quasi-famine situation. It slows your metabolism down and breaks the thermostat. Diets don't work. They don't help you understand why you're eating more than your body wanted in the first place.

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.

I did a very stupid diet where you have three food groups, and you never eat them together. It's so bloody tedious; I'm losing the will to live just describing it. I managed to stay very thin because you spent your life wandering around starving hungry looking for a chickpea to go with a chicken leg.

Ninety percent of people who lose weight gain it back. It's very sad.

I started dieting. I dieted, dieted, dieted and tried all the diets and I would lose and then I would go back to normal eating and would put it on and then some.

I remember when the Atkins diet arrived; I lost 16 lb in the first month, but when I stopped, it all went back on again.

My biggest regret is putting my body through fad diets - Atkins, cleanses, the hCG diet.

I've done everything every fat person ever has. I've tried every diet.

I once ate nothing but grapefruit for an entire month. I didn't lose a pound.

Even low-calorie diets and vigorous exercise fail to work in the long term for at least some people.

I used to eat what I want, on a junk diet, and used to think I could make my weight easy and kill myself over the last four or five days.

I had tried every diet out there - I would lose weight for a bit, then put it back on again.

A crash diet never works. You lose weight one day and add it the next.

I don't know if those things work, where you do, like, this crash diet or crash starvation. It's just not something I've ever been into.

Depriving yourself will, ironically enough, lead to rebelling and weight gain.

She used to diet on any kind of food she could lay her hands on.

In the fall of 2012 I did drop some weight, and then it all came back on and then some, just like the average person who deals with this goes through.

You just don't eat until you feel like you're gonna throw up at every meal and all of a sudden the weight falls right off.

I think diets are ridiculous because eventually you have to stop, and then what? You put all the weight back on.

I did every diet: Atkins. Cabbage-soup diet. Dean Ornish. But I couldn't live the rest of my life like a rabbit.

Once you have to start counting calories, it takes away from the joy of eating.

The worst diets are ones that restrict your calories too much and try to trick your body. You have no energy, and it's ridiculous.

People are unhappy when they are on diets, because it's 'don't do this, don't do that, do this, do that.'

We can all put weight on or lose weight.

If you put on weight it's not by chance. You put on weight because you eat compulsively.