Andrew Weil Quotes

People think that you can save calories by eating fewer meals a day, but it works just the opposite: the fewer meals you eat, the more counterproductive it becomes to you being able to lose weight.

If you eat every two hours, your body doesn't really hold much fat, and it actually speeds up your metabolism.

Overall, I try to have five small meals a day to keep my metabolism up.

A lot of people say, 'OK, I'm overweight, so I'm not going to eat any food; I'm only going to have an apple a day,' but then your body will go into starvation mode, so what you've got to do is increase your metabolism.

At one point I had to shove as much food in my body as possible to pack on calories. My trainer wanted me to do six meals a day and not go two hours without eating. If I would cheat on eating one day, I could tell - I'd drop a few pounds.

I think I must have a super-fast metabolism.

I believe in eating smaller meals more often throughout the day to keep the metabolism going. Don't deprive yourself, just make better choices. At 50 years old it is definitely a lot harder to stay in shape then it was when I was in my 20's.

I don't overeat. I only eat one meal a day... but my body has been one of those that has almost perfect assimilation, so everything I eat is assimilated, not lost.

I eat all of the time... at least five little meals a day.

It's one thing to lose weight, but it's another thing to eat healthy.

The idea behind diet confusion is, you have to keep your body off-kilter. So by changing the type of foods that you eat, the frequency of the foods that you eat, you can keep your metabolism revved up.

With swimming, I burn a lot of calories. I'm able to eat pretty much anything and it won't affect me. But I don't.

I need to eat every three hours - it keeps my metabolism going so I stay at a certain weight.

I have to eat a lot to function, so I don't really diet, especially when I have to work out more.

To keep my metabolism healthy, I eat seven-eight meals a day, every two hours.

It's always a battle to maintain my weight.

My aim is sustainable fat loss and so I've opted for carb cycling.

I eat every two hours to balance my diet.

I like eating small meals frequently throughout the day, it helps me keep up my metabolism and get more out of my training.

I would never recommend going on a crash diet. Drastically reducing your calorie intake can cause numerous problems, and your body will store fat because you have sent it into starvation mode. I eat every two hours to maintain my blood sugar levels.

I had no idea about nutrition. I thought by eating salads you'll stay skinny.

I used to skip breakfast, but eating gets my metabolism going, so I burn more calories all day.

For 24 years of my adult life, by choice I weighed well over 200 pounds. I say 'by choice' because I have never 'accidentally' eaten anything, so when I choose to eat too much, I have chosen to weigh too much.

It's smarter to look at portions than to count calories.

You can't get rid of it with exercise alone. You can do the most vigorous exercise and only burn up 300 calories in an hour. If you've got fat on your body, the exercise firms and tones the muscles. But when you use that tape measure, what makes it bigger? It's the fat!