Hoda Kotb Quotes

I was up around 340 pounds because the producers said they wanted a really big guy - and I'm not that big, you know! I've lost it all now though. I'm 285 pounds, my sexy weight!

I was a good 30 pounds overweight throughout high school, and it wasn't until I was going away to college that I really wanted to make sure I was doing everything possible to feel as confident as I could.

I feel like I am always battling to keep my weight down.

There was a time when I was 312 pounds. And I've been all different weights.

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

I didn't have any eating disorder or food addiction, but I struggle like every single person with my weight every day. Honestly, a day does not go by where I am not thinking about what I am eating.

I always had a weight issue since I was a young kid.

I've always been conscious of my weight.

Many of us are tethered to bodies that sabotage us in our struggle to keep from getting fat, or to slim down when we do.

My gosh, I love food. If I wasn't an actor, I could be a completely different body shape right now.

When I was in high school I was 250 pounds.

Up until the age of 30 I could eat whatever I wanted - I mean, literally, I never put on a pound; if anything, I was criticised in the media for being too skinny.

At my heaviest, I was 5'8" and 175 pounds. I ate well, but in too large quantities, and I rarely made a concerted effort to burn off the extra calories. I'd beat myself up about being overweight, even though I had the tools to be in shape. Then I'd resort to an unhealthy diet to lose the weight that was making me self-conscious.

I have always had a problem with my weight.

If you've stacked on the weight over time, and if you don't have any health issues, you don't realise. So you'll see yourself in the mirror and, yes, you know what the scales say, but you don't actually see what other people see.

Weight is something I've battled all my life.

We can all put weight on or lose weight.

There have been periods of my life when I was heavier, like right after high school I definitely gained that freshman 15. It was tough to lose. Ever since then, I know that I can gain weight, so I try to be careful.

I don't want to get fat.

I weighed 245 pounds when I was 16 years old. I had a 44-inch waist. And that was two years before 'Dukes of Hazzard' started.

I did gain weight, but I don't care.

I definitely feel pressure to keep slim. I don't want to be the guy who lost weight and gained it all back. But it's hard. Sometimes I'll gorge and gain nine pounds in a weekend somehow, and I get bummed about it.

It is so discouraging to have your weight yo-yo.

Who hasn't had a weight issue? If not the body, certainly the big head!

I was always the 250 pound guy that I was when I was 18 years old coming out of high school.