Francis Collins Quotes

There is no quick fix. At the end of the day, you still have to do the work to maintain your weight. It can't be a diet. You have to change your life.

I think most diets are torture, which is why I don't believe in them. But, as is true with exercise, when you make a change and feel the benefits, you want to stick with it.

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.

When I saw contestants fighting for their lives on 'The Biggest Loser,' I realized I just wanted to be healthy - to have fun playing soccer with my son or teaching my daughter to shoot hoops. Then it was so much easier to say no to carbs, soda, or dessert, and the weight just came off.

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

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

I know what I have to do if I want to lose weight and stay healthy: eat a proper diet and exercise. All I've got to do is apply it.

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

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

Lifestyle change and changes in diet work faster, better and more cheaply than any medication and are as effective or more effective than gastric bypass without any side effects or long-term complications.

If you want to be right-sized in body, you've got to get rid of the supersize way of life.

I can't just sit all day on the couch and expect the weight to come off. My goals are my new focus instead of food.

I pay attention to my diet to be a healthier gymnast, but I'm not obsessive over it.

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

If you want to lose weight, you must make sure your appetite for life is far bigger than your appetite for mere food.

There are obviously times where I love to pig out and enjoy myself, but I always make sure to never lose my focus on being healthy.

Eat what you want to eat, but just be willing to pay the price. If you know you want to eat more cake or more cookies, be willing to work out a lil bit more. I think that's the problem people have is you want to eat bad, but yet you don't want to pay the price to work it off.

Just eat less and exercise more.

I want to encourage people to make healthy life choices, whether it's training for a half-marathon, or eating more vegetables.

You have to make the decision to lose weight in your head, not your stomach.

Honestly, I'm blessed with good genes and a good sense of discipline - I eat whatever I want, but I eat very controlled portions and stop when I'm full.

It's challenging, but you have to at least try to eat right and exercise.

If you knew you could change your lifestyle and diet and avoid heart disease and other things, you should do it.

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.

When I make a change, like when I found out I had high cholesterol, I just changed my lifestyle.