Jean Nidetch Quotes

I'm never going to be fat - never again. I'm going to make it easy on my pallbearers.

I have this view that losing weight is easy, keeping it off is hard because keeping it off is the discipline.

I recently lost 50 pounds. I'm hovering on the cusp of a size eight, which seems unbelievable.

If I'm known as the girl that lost weight and it's been six years later and I've still kept off the 110 pounds, God bless. Because I never kept off 100 pounds before in my life.

It was challenging getting myself into the mindset to lose the weight. Once I got there, the weight dropped off quickly.

I must cut lots of weight. Isn't nice, but it's part of my job and I can make it very easy.

Eat what you want to eat, but just be willing to pay the price. If you know you want to eat more cake or more cookies, be willing to work out a lil bit more. I think that's the problem people have is you want to eat bad, but yet you don't want to pay the price to work it off.

I think most diets are torture, which is why I don't believe in them. But, as is true with exercise, when you make a change and feel the benefits, you want to stick with it.

If I have to get into a bikini, then I eat carrot sticks for three days.

You see people who have been very heavy in their life who have taken that body, trimmed it down, firmed it up through discipline, exercise and being able to say no. Eating properly, that all comes into it.

It's easy to diet or get off a diet when you've got a juicy role to play.

I have been on a diet since 1962.

My reason and inspiration to lose weight and stay fit is my youngest son, Anant, who is fighting obesity. I would like to be an example for him.

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

I can't just sit all day on the couch and expect the weight to come off. My goals are my new focus instead of food.

I take care of myself, which includes dieting, exercising and minimising stress. I joke that I've been on a diet since 1974, which is basically true.

There are many, many people who have lost 100 pounds and kept it off.

Successful weight management really means a permanent change in lifestyle - and success in this arena provides that person with a great opportunity to model that behavior for friends and family.

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

Americans get fatter and fatter and buy more and more diet books, but you don't lose weight by buying diet books - you go on a diet. It's easy to read a diet book, but it's hard to go on a diet.

It take me one year to lose all that weight. Look, it takes a long time to put it in; it takes a long time to take it off. It's a struggle in the beginning, and then you get used to it. I work also with a nutritionist, and she helped me. She became a friend.

I've never had a problem making featherweight. Of course, it wasn't easy, but it also was never an issue.

Well, we're on a never-ending quest to slim down. It's just very difficult for us.

Dropping 25 pounds was something I was unsure about. It seemed like a pointless adventure, in a way.

If you find you require willpower, you aren't ready to lose weight.