Al Roker Quotes

I've done everything every fat person ever has. I've tried every diet.

I work out every day, and I eat 1,200 calories. Here's the truth - like I've said to everybody, 'Every diet works if you follow the diet.'

I can drink 15 pieces of fruit in a day. Nobody is going to sit down and eat that. I drink about 48 ounces a day. That constitutes about 50 percent of what I eat. And then I have one meal a day, some protein. I restrict calories.

I eat only vegetables and fruit, and to me it's the most aspirational diet because it's so easy. It's quite simple, the cooking I do.

When people want to lose weight, they get to a point where they are desperate and looking for the new thing that is going to work miracles. But at the end of the day, there is no such thing.

You can have intense food experience with less food. Europeans have intense food experiences but eat less food.

You have to diet before you even go to shoot in Chicago because we just eat the entire time.

There's no way to fake weight loss - you just kinda have to not eat.

One thing I've learned is I actually don't like variety very much. I like having the same thing over and over: assorted lean proteins, arugula salad, quinoa or brown rice with soy sauce, olive oil, lemon, and salt. Those ingredients can pretty much get me through the week.

My biggest problem areas are my stomach and face. If I indulge too much, I gain weight at these wrong places. So, I stick to a very strict diet in order to avoid that.

I went on a diet and went from 248 pounds to 211.

The diet is a twisted, noxious thing, all tortured abstinence and short-term fraud. I speak from bitter experience. As a restaurant critic, I eat to live and live to eat. And having a toxic aversion to exercise, there is little to prevent the inevitable bulging of my gut. Hence the need for the occasional diet.

I can only have four to five ounces of food in my stomach. When you only have that much space in there, you don't want to fill it up with crap.

I do a very strict diet.

I do not believe in starving myself.

I have too busy a schedule to stick to an exercise plan, so I decided to diet.

I am allowed one matchbox-sized piece of cheese a week.

I can easily cut 10 to 15 pounds without feeling like I'm killing myself.

I count calories and watch my carbs.

I just eat half portions, do cardio every day.

I take small meals three times a day - Breakfast at 6 or 7 A.M., let my body digest what I eat, and then I have lunch. My last meal for the day is at around 6 P.M. No more food after that.

It's not easy to be on a diet when you play for Napoli - the food is really good.

I thought of calorie-counting as a budget: I was happy to skip bread at dinner so I could 'spend' on a glass of wine.

I used to think that in order to be lean, I had to under-eat.

I try to eat healthy for the most part. When I cut weight, I cut pretty much everything out. I don't have protein when I cut weight other than what I might get from something like chicken breast. So I don't eat any extra protein, just because I'm trying to get the weight off. That's the only real diet I have.