Dieting should be more correctly referred to as weight management.
Although some people eat to gain weight they are in the minority as most people “on a diet” are seeking to lose it.
Dieting changes the energy balance and increase or decrease the amount of fat stored by the body. Some foods are specifically recommended while others are condemned.
If weight loss is the objective it cannot be achieved by restricting food intake alone and some form of exercise regime must be a component. The terms “healthy diet” and “diet for weight management” are often related, as both promote healthy weight management.
Having a healthy diet is a way to prevent health problems, and provides the body with the right balance of vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients.
The quotes selected by our LifeDaily team are a mixture of good advice and cynical rejections of the concept.
Browse our list of quotes about diet and decide which to follow:
1. Mae West:
I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.
2. Mireille Guiliano:
Once you have to start counting calories, it takes away from the joy of eating.
3. Louis C. K.:
I don’t stop eating when I’m full. The meal isn’t over when I’m full. It’s over when I hate myself.
4. John Mortimer:
I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.
5. Giada De Laurentiis:
Pasta doesn’t make you fat. How much pasta you eat makes you fat.
6. Tony Robbins:
Want to learn to eat a lot? Here it is: Eat a little. That way, you will be around long enough to eat a lot.
7. Orson Welles:
My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
8. Lara Stone:
I think of dieting, then I eat pizza.
9. Dolly Parton:
Every single diet I ever fell off of was because of potatoes and gravy of some sort.
10. Ed Koch:
The best way to lose weight is to close your mouth – something very difficult for a politician. Or watch your food – just watch it, don’t eat it.
11. Suze Orma:
People have got to learn: if they don’t have cookies in the cookie jar, they can’t eat cookies.
12. Mark Twain:
The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not.
13. Alexander Pope:
What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.
14. Jackie Gleason:
The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you’re off it.
15. Cameron Diaz:
French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar.
As you can see, the opinions about dieting are as varied as the diet options available.
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