Richard Simmons Quotes

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

Eating right has made the biggest difference in my body.

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.

When you eat healthfully, your body gravitates relatively rapidly toward a better weight.

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.

Stop turning to fad diets and use common sense.

People don't become obese overnight. Allowing our children to have treats in moderation - as in trick-or-treating - is one thing, but good nutrition involves discipline that must be learned and practiced on a daily basis.

You should never go on diet and must follow a healthy lifestyle.

When a man diets, he eats oatmeal in addition to everything else he usually eats.

If you’re not eating the right foods in the right amounts, all the exercise in the world won’t combat the caloric intake.

I am blessed with a good metabolism, and as long as I work out, carbs don't add to my weight. If I need a leaner, meaner look for a film, I go off carbs for a bit.

I did every diet: Atkins. Cabbage-soup diet. Dean Ornish. But I couldn't live the rest of my life like a rabbit.

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

A lot of people don't realize that when you're trying to lose weight, or just trying to stay fit, 85 percent of it is what you eat, and 15 percent of it is how you work out.

It's taken a while, but I've finally grown up and got my head around the fact that the healthier the food you eat is and the more exercise you do, the lighter you'll be. It really is that simple.

It's so much easier just to eat and work out than not eat and work out like crazy.

Pregnancy isn't 'I can eat whatever I want,' because you have to remember you're going to be stuck with a lot of that weight afterwards that you need to try to get off.

The bottom line is that there is a lot more that could and should be done to help people with nutrition and exercise.

After a lifetime of losing and gaining weight, I get it. No matter how you slice it, weight loss comes down to the simple formula of calories in, calories out.

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.

There is nothing unhealthy about educating youngsters about nutrition.

I do watch what I eat, but not for weight reasons.

Once you lose the weight, you're really anxious to eat healthy.

I watch what I eat obviously. I'm not a regular gym-goer but I'm conscious of 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.