Carey Mulligan Quotes

I've seen how much effort has to go into a tour, the performance and also how to look after yourself, not just physically, but mentally too.

I didn't start out about weight loss. I was very tired and my energy was low. This is my second go-around in love, so I want to make sure I'll be around to enjoy it.

Like I said, everybody has got something they have to deal with health-wise, and everybody's human. I should look after myself better, but so should everybody, right?

The only time I did not know how to be, physically, was when I lost a lot of weight. That was the only time I didn't understand my body.

Obesity affects every aspect of a people's lives, from health to relationships.

I am a big man, but I've allowed my condition to deteriorate by being overweight.

We're all in trouble, and we all need to sort of pick up the pieces and start to exercise more and really be careful with the food.

I take care of myself, which includes dieting, exercising and minimising stress. I joke that I've been on a diet since 1974, which is basically true.

I'm an ordinary Tasmanian like everybody else, and I have weight issues; I have issues around finding the time to do the exercise and things, but in my role as Health Minister, and in my role as myself as well, I have to look after my own health.

I am doing everything humanly possible to try and get well, but lately things have just kept getting worse.

I'm in three bands, and I love to produce records of other bands, and I have a family that I love. I wanted to be everything for everybody and do all of that... I think I just really beat myself up until I got really sick and needed surgery, because it was physically manifesting itself.

At 150 pounds, I feel like I'm at my healthiest and my strongest and my most beautiful.

If I look at the one thorn that is in my side, of all my life, it is my weight. I fret about it, I'm anxious about it, being an actor on television - it drives me insane. It just seems to be something that plays a central part in waking up in the morning and thinking, 'How am I with myself today?'

There's a huge emotional component to weight loss.

The reason I stay home more is because I realise that my blood pressure started going up.

I still represent for overweight adults and kids, but I am also now painfully and personally aware of the health issues.

I have health challenges, I have life challenges, just like everyone else.

That's the worst part about all of the injuries and the criticism. It would be one thing if I had been healthy for five years and just sucked when I was on the court. But I can't prove what I can do because I can't stay healthy. Not having control over the situation makes it tough.

I hated to see tabloids with my pictures where I looked so plump. I visited so many doctors, clinics, hit the gym, hired an expensive trainer but nothing worked. I went into an acute depression. Its then that somebody advised me to take up Yoga.

Being an actor can be a cruel experience because there is no cooling-down period. You can be involved in something that's incredibly intense, but then it's a wrap and you've finished and you go home. I find it difficult to complete a job and then return to reality and find my healthy place.

There are days when you are busy even without having work as you are going for auditions. So you are not acting in a way. To sustain yourself mentally, physically, emotionally is challenging for sure.

Health is not just a physical thing for me anymore - there is a huge mental side as well.

Making fitness a priority will energize you, make you look and feel better, and help diffuse stress.

When we are busy with the everyday bhag-daud, one fine day a health scare just stops it all.

I didn't enjoy fighting. All I cared about was trying to beat the scale. Once that got to a point where I couldn't compete with the scale anymore, I was like, 'I'm done.'