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If you trust Google more than your doctor then maybe it's time to switch doctors.: Jadelr and Cristina Cordova, Chasing Windmills, 08-21-06
Now there are more overweight people in America than average-weight people. So overweight people are now average. Which means you've met your New Year's resolution.: Jay Leno (1950 - )
'Where and how can I make this meal better for me?' I asked myself that question before every meal—especially in the beginning.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
Anyone can lose a few pounds, but not everyone has the tools to stick with it.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
Gaining control over your health and well-being is one of those times in your life that you get to be completely selfish and not feel bad about it. If you want to meet your goals, you have to make it about you. You have to make it work for you and you alone. Anything less is a setup for failure.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
If you can’t take responsibility for your own well-being, you will never take control over it.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
If you’re not eating the right foods in the right amounts, all the exercise in the world won’t combat the caloric intake.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
People get comfortable with the way you are—they have formed their opinion of you based on everything they see and know about you as a person. When you change that up by losing weight, they no longer understand you.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
Permanent weight loss doesn’t come with an on and off switch. It is not something you do for a little while and think it is going to change your body.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
What I learned from Weight Watchers is that food was meant to be used as fuel for our bodies. If we are using it for any other reasons, it is time to take a step back and ask ourselves what’s up.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
When someone wants to lose weight, they will do whatever it takes. They can’t do it for anyone else but themselves. It has to be for them alone. Without that understanding, they will fail.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
You cannot just work out and then eat poorly and expect to lose weight. It doesn’t work that way.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
You can’t make a life-altering decision for someone else and expect it to stick.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
You have to want weight-loss success so badly that no mountain, river, or ocean could keep you from reaching your goals. If you have that drive, passion, and commitment, there is no way you won’t get there.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
You can either hold yourself up to the unrealistic standards of others, or ignore them and concentrate on being happy with yourself as you are.: Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content webcomic, #352, 05-04-05
Water is the most neglected nutrient in your diet but one of the most vital.: Kelly Barton
Better to look weak and be strong than to look strong and be weak.: Laura Moncur (1969 - ), Merriton: 35 Minutes from Home, 05-19-12
Whether you are healthy or ill, your thoughts can drive you. If you are feeling ill, it may be your mind that has made you so.: Laura Moncur (1969 - ), The Secret Heart of Charlotte Lucas, 2014
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
When I walk into my kitchen today, I am not alone. Whether we know it or not, none of us is. We bring fathers and mothers and kitchen tables, and every meal we have ever eaten. Food is never just food. It's also a way of getting at something else: who we are, who we have been, and who we want to be.: Molly Wizenberg, A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table, 2009
Getting my lifelong weight struggle under control has come from a process of treating myself as well as I treat others in every way.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, August 2004
A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.: Paul Dudley White
Pain (any pain--emotional, physical, mental) has a message. The information it has about our life can be remarkably specific, but it usually falls into one of two categories: "We would be more alive if we did more of this," and, "Life would be more lovely if we did less of that." Once we get the pain's message, and follow its advice, the pain goes away.: Peter McWilliams, Life 101
The more severe the pain or illness, the more severe will be the necessary changes. These may involve breaking bad habits, or acquiring some new and better ones.: Peter McWilliams, Life 101
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.: Quentin Crisp
One of the most sublime experiences we can ever have is to wake up feeling healthy after we have been sick.: Rabbi Harold Kushner
Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.: Redd Foxx (1922 - 1991)
Quit worrying about your health. It'll go away.: Robert Orben
Make your own recovery the first priority in your life.: Robin Norwood

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