Jean Nidetch Quotes

I am the one who got myself fat, who did all the eating. So I had to take full responsibility for it.

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

For 24 years of my adult life, by choice I weighed well over 200 lbs. I say by choice because you see I have never accidentally eaten anything.

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.

People - and I include myself - get fat because they choose pleasure over self-denial.

If you put on weight it's not by chance. You put on weight because you eat compulsively.

I am actually a bit chubby, and I eat everything. I eat in a way - if my parents fed me the way I choose to eat as an adult, they would've lost custody.

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.

I'm, like, a compulsive eater. I'm going to be so fat when I'm older, it's ridiculous.

I'm not a machine. I get really motivated, then I fall off the wagon and want to eat Chinese food and sit on my couch and gain five or 10 pounds!

I struggle because I love food and sometimes I can't stop eating.

Desires collide; the wish to eat bumping up against the wish to be thin, the desire to indulge conflicting with the injunction to restrain. Small wonder food makes a woman nervous.

That's always my downfall on tour: the food. I just want to eat everything.

Toffee Crisp was my downfall. I once ate five at a sitting. Do you really need that third helping, Harry? My parents didn't overfeed me, nor did they make an issue of it. That's when things go wrong. It doesn't have to be a problem for children to be fat, but it does affect you: you aren't as happy in that skin.

A lot of lawyers are set to tell me that it's not my fault I like to eat.

All my life I've had a weight problem. As a child, I loved to eat. I would hide from my mother and drink whole cans of condensed milk in my room.

Everybody has a weakness. Mine is food.

I'm a huge food addict.

I'm the reason why I'm overweight. No one made me do it. I did it.

I've been irresponsible many, many, many times and that has resulted in my being fat.

Ever since I was little, I loved to eat. I started eating when I wasn't hungry. My weight has always been up and down.

I miss being able to pig out sometimes.

As a kid, I'd eat at my mother's house, then go down the road to my girlfriend's and eat, and then sometimes go to my friend's house and eat again. I could gain five pounds in a day. In a week, there wouldn't be a scale to weigh me.

I'm naturally greedy and would end up the size of a house if I ate all I wanted all of the time.

Food is my favourite thing in the world. I always say if I ate what I actually wanted to eat I'd be in one of those electronic scooters because I'd be too big.