Phil McGraw Quotes

I have this view that losing weight is easy, keeping it off is hard because keeping it off is the discipline.

When I found out I was going to be on CBS every morning, my first phone call was to Jenny Craig. Ten days later, I'd lost nine pounds. Now I even take the plan's popcorn with me to the movies.

Based on eating everyday foods in specific combinations, Somersizing is a lifestyle that will change your way of thinking about how to lose weight and how to increase your energy. Eating the Somersize way is a pleasure. It is a program for life, a program I will happily live on for the rest of my life.

You know what the secret to weight loss is? Don't eat much.

I feel like I am always battling to keep my weight down.

Weight Watchers is not intimidating. It's not a diet. It's a lifestyle.

You don't need to stick to tough rules or overnight changes; you need not rely on hardcore discipline that makes you hate your life. You need only focus on progress, not perfection. Lean in to the process of losing weight, and it will happen easily.

I actually lost more weight than I am!

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.

My advice for anyone looking to lose weight is to not make it feel like a job.

I don't believe in diets. They don't necessarily work. What they do is scrub your weight down, but as soon as you finish, you naturally go back up. I keep everything in my diet - gluten and sugar - I just cut it down a little bit and train more. It's not rocket science.

I have no time for fad diets.

I count calories and watch my carbs.

I'm the wrong person to ask for advice when it comes to losing weight because I've never been on that side of the fence.

It take me one year to lose all that weight. Look, it takes a long time to put it in; it takes a long time to take it off. It's a struggle in the beginning, and then you get used to it. I work also with a nutritionist, and she helped me. She became a friend.

It's not hard to lose weight.

I'm staying lighter because I want to go back to 145.

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

My books have helped a lot of men to lose weight.

For the vast majority of those who are obese - those with a Body Mass Index over 30 - their size is their choice. They choose to take in more calories than they burn. They choose to take in high fat calories over low-fat ones. They choose to fad diet, if they choose to diet at all.

If you believe that weight loss requires self-deprivation, I'm going to teach you otherwise.

Just eat less and exercise more.

This does not come naturally. I have to work out 60 to 90 minutes at least five days a week and stick to a high- fiber, low-calorie eating plan.

Eating lighter makes you lighter. No one can wave a magic wand.

The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.