Suzanne Somers Quotes

If you eat every two hours, your body doesn't really hold much fat, and it actually speeds up your metabolism.

You can't get rid of it with exercise alone. You can do the most vigorous exercise and only burn up 300 calories in an hour. If you've got fat on your body, the exercise firms and tones the muscles. But when you use that tape measure, what makes it bigger? It's the fat!

Eating Paleo just leans you down and slims you up and takes that little layer of fat and water-weight right off your body.

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.

Think about it - just getting rid of the fat doesn't get rid of the toxins, which are reabsorbed into your body. This creates a vicious cycle. Losing weight without learning to eliminate chemicals is like a merry-go-round. And it's why dieting doesn't work.

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

'The 17 Day Diet' keeps your body and metabolism guessing. I call this 'body confusion.'

If you continually diet, you are putting your body in a quasi-famine situation. It slows your metabolism down and breaks the thermostat. Diets don't work. They don't help you understand why you're eating more than your body wanted in the first place.

When we lessen lectin consumption, the gut wall reseals and the stimulus to store fat is removed. Lectins no longer bind to insulin receptors, and we no longer store fat aggressively. Weight loss invariably follows.

A lot of people say, 'OK, I'm overweight, so I'm not going to eat any food; I'm only going to have an apple a day,' but then your body will go into starvation mode, so what you've got to do is increase your metabolism.

Fiber and other nondigestible carbs work wonderful weight loss magic.

I would never recommend going on a crash diet. Drastically reducing your calorie intake can cause numerous problems, and your body will store fat because you have sent it into starvation mode. I eat every two hours to maintain my blood sugar levels.

It is not easy to lose or gain weight. The diet and the exercise regime should be compatible with your body, or else you end up with wrinkles and hair loss.

There are no shortcut to losing weight. Just hard work and dedication, hard work and dedication.

I'm the wrong person to ask for advice when it comes to losing weight because I've never been on that side of the fence.

When you eat foods high in fiber, you feel full faster, making you less likely to overeat and more likely to have weight loss.

I want to look svelte.

I had to cut weight a few years ago, and I felt like I'll be better if I was lighter. I felt like my conditioning would be better if I eat better.

I put on weight easily and lose it equally fast.

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

Obviously everyone's weight fluctuates. But I'm focusing on working out and watching what I'm eating.

I've focused on being as lean as I can.

I stopped eating out so much. That just piles weight on you. I stay active now. Just taking a walk for 30-45 minutes can do wonders.

By the end of the winter, I'm always battling too-tight pants. My solution: Eat lean protein, good grains, and veggies.

Every food I choose to eat helps me become more conscious of how it either moves me forward to my fab weight or backward to my flab weight.