My Favorite Weight Loss Quotes

I've listed some of my favorite weight loss quotes on this page. I hope you find them interesting and inspirational.

Why the quotes? Because perserverance is an essential part of any self-improvement program.

Words of wisdom from those who have walked the road before can help keep you motivated when you get discouraged.

The humorous weight loss quotes are good reminders to keep things in perspective. If we take our problems too seriously, and worry too much, we end up making them worse.

Best Weight Loss Quotes

We never repent of having eaten too little.
- Thomas Jefferson, 1825

Take twice as long to eat half as much. - Anonymous

The belly is ungrateful; it always forgets we already gave it something.
- Russian Proverb

The commonest form of malnutrition in the western world is obesity.
- Mervyn Deitel

Nothing tastes as good as being thin feels.
- Kate Moss

More die in the United States of too much food than too little.
- John Kenneth Galbraith, "The Affluent Society"

Rich, fatty foods are like destiny: they too, shape our ends.
- Author Unknown

The one way to get thin is to re-establish a purpose in life.
- Cyril Connolly

Bigger snacks mean bigger slacks.
- Author Unknown

I guess I don’t so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.
- Ben Franklin

In eating, a third of the stomach should be filled with food, a third with drink, and the rest left empty.
- The Talmud

Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it.
- Horace

I'm fat, but I'm thin inside. There's a thin man inside every fat man.
- George Orwell

If you wish to grow thinner, diminish your dinner.
- Henry Sambrooke Leigh

Your body is the luggage you must carry through life. The more excess the luggage, the shorter the trip.
- Arnold H. Glasgow

Feed sparingly and defy the physician.
- James Howell

Your stomach should not be a waist basket.
- Anonymous

One should eat to live, not live to eat.
- Cicero, "Rhetoricorum LV"

Stressed spelled backwards is desserts. Coincidence? I think not!
- Author Unknown

If hunger is not the problem, then eating is not the solution.
- Author Unknown

Life itself is the proper binge.
- Julia Child

You can't lose weight by talking about it. You have to keep your mouth shut.
- Unknown

They are sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing.
- William Shakespeare

If you hang your swimsuit
On the refrigerator door,
The goodies inside
Will be easier to ignore.
- The Quote Garden

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Even More Weight Loss Quotes

I keep trying to lose weight... but it keeps finding me!
- Unknown

The one way to get thin is to re-establish a purpose in life.
- Cyril Connolly

You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be.
- David Viscott

Self delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales.
- Paul Sweeney

Eat not to dullness, drink not to elevation.
- Benjamin Franklin

Never eat more than you can lift.
- Miss Piggy

How long does getting thin take?
- From Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milne

It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears.
- Plutarch

Don't dig your grave with your own knife and fork.
- English proverb

Excessive stress is a major cause of hypereating.

Sometimes it's important to just relax, be patient, and remember there are many other people in the world trying to lose weight too.

These weight loss quotes remind us that carrying around too much weight is not a new problem.

Some of the greatest thinkers of all time have struggled with their weight.

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