Fad Diet Quotes

I remember when the Atkins diet arrived; I lost 16 lb in the first month, but when I stopped, it all went back on again.

At the end of every diet, the path curves back to the trough.

I did a very stupid diet where you have three food groups, and you never eat them together. It's so bloody tedious; I'm losing the will to live just describing it. I managed to stay very thin because you spent your life wandering around starving hungry looking for a chickpea to go with a chicken leg.

I once ate nothing but grapefruit for an entire month. I didn't lose a pound.

None of this 'different diets' lark. I can't remember the last time I tried some new fad.

I've never been on a diet that lasted more than a day.

The paleo diet is utter nonsense - it is such pseudoscience.

You can only hold your stomach in for so many years.

I've probably tried every fad diet in the world.

I don't do long juice cleanses because, for me, it messes up my metabolism, and I actually gain weight.

Health food shops can make people feel very important; it's like a brand new religion with people trying to convert you to quinoa.

I tried the maple syrup diet. I tried the protein-only Atkins diet.

A crash diet never works. You lose weight one day and add it the next.

I've never been on a fad diet.

I don't go looking for new fads.

It's no secret that in our society, and many before, people are trend followers. For some reason, they feel better about themselves if they are dressed in the latest fashion or have the newest tech gadget.

Jumping on something too fast can be a mistake. Tae Bo was once the latest and greatest craze, but where is it now?

Anything that's popular gets made into a diet. Acai is no more of a diet than the eraser on your No. 2 pencil.

As a late teenager, I had some puppy fat on me, and I noticed that I could put on weight. I have always been very disciplined because my mother was very beautiful, a very pretty woman, but she was immobilised by obesity. At her biggest, she was about 17 stone. And she was always on some sort of fad diet.

My problem with the word 'clean' is that it has become too complicated. It has become too loaded. When I first read the term, it meant natural, unprocessed. Now it doesn't mean that at all. It means diet. It means fad.

For the vast majority of those who are obese - those with a Body Mass Index over 30 - their size is their choice. They choose to take in more calories than they burn. They choose to take in high fat calories over low-fat ones. They choose to fad diet, if they choose to diet at all.