Karl Lagerfeld Quotes

Being overweight and obesity are major risk factors for many chronic diseases for South Dakotans of all ages. When people are overweight or obese, they have more health problems and more serious health problems, in addition to higher health care costs.

It became obvious in 1957 that I was endangering my health by carrying so much weight.

Obesity among young Americans is a serious problem that can have serious ramifications in the long run.

Who would have thought that the girl who was forced to go to the hospital because she's so skinny would one day be called too fat?

Because I was always a fat child, I got fatter and fatter, and I ended up 18 stone and with a 40-inch waist.

By the time I was a teenager, I weighed 400 pounds.

I gained weight, and that started a 32-year struggle with weight and exercise and body image problems.

I had gone to the doctor. The doctor said, 'You're healthy as a horse. You've got two weight problems - two health problems because of your weight. Please do something.'

I have obsessed about my weight in some sort of way all my life. I used to write in my journal what I weighed every day.

For the first time ever, overweight people outnumber average people in America. Doesn't that make overweight the average then? Last month you were fat, now you're average - hey, let's get a pizza!

I just don't like being overweight.

I had all kinds of food issues, including health concerns and weight concerns.

Unhealthy eating habits cause major health problems, such as diabetes and heart disease, and can also lead to food insecurity, disrupted eating patterns, and low self-esteem.

The interesting thing about overeating or being obese is there's this physical manifestation of it.

I've been overweight all my life.

If you walk down the street, within five minutes you will see someone who is morbidly obese or obese.

If you see 'Pollock,' I weighed almost 270 pounds.

When I was in middle school and high school, I was over 100 pounds overweight.

At 26 or 27, I was fatter than anyone.

I've talked to so many people, men and women alike, that get overweight and their self-esteem just goes in the tank. They think they're judged. They think they're unattractive.

Anorexia, you starve yourself. Bulimia, you binge and purge. You eat huge amounts of food until you're sick and then you throw up. And anorexia, you just deny yourself. It's about control.

It's not okay to be fat - not because of the way you look, but because it's unhealthy. I have experienced hormonal problems, bad skin, immense laziness, and back and knee pain. It's not fine to be too fat or too thin! Anything in extremes is wrong. I am afraid of putting on weight because I don't want to develop health problems.

In New York, if you weigh under 200 pounds and decline so much as a cookie at a co-worker's party, women will flock to your side, assuring you of your appealing physique. This is how skittish we are about the dangers of anorexia and the pressures of body image.

By the age of 18, I was very fat. My dad would say there's a Spall fat gene. But I was fat because I ate loads. I used to go and buy six or seven chocolate bars and eat my way through them.

A lot of people who are overweight - not everyone, but a lot of people - are dealing with issues such as emotional issues, stress issues. They become stress eaters and emotional eaters.