Health Quotes

As I see it, every day you do one of two things: build health or produce disease in yourself.

Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos - the trees, the clouds, everything.

Getting my lifelong weight struggle under control has come from a process of treating myself as well as I treat others in every way.

It is amazing how much crisper the general experience of life becomes when your body is given a chance to develop a little strength.

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.

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.

Eating everything you want is not that much fun. When you live a life with no boundaries, there’s less joy. If you can eat anything you want to, what’s the fun in eating anything you want to?

Every patient carries her or his own doctor inside.

If you trust Google more than your doctor then maybe it's time to switch doctors.

Beauty isn't something on the outside. It's your insides that count! You gotta eat green stuff to make sure you're pretty on the inside.

I don't want to live in a world where I have to eat sugar-free sugar cookies.

The refreshing pleasure from the first view of nature, after the pain of illness, and the confinement of a sick-chamber, is above the conceptions, as well as the descriptions, of those in health.

Exercise relieves stress. Nothing relieves exercise.

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.

Fitness - If it came in a bottle, everybody would have a great body.

I'd heard it all the time, 'Live in the moment.' But if I did that, I'd weigh more than a dump truck. Losing weight wasn't about the moment at all; it was about having faith in the future. It was about knowing there would be another meal in a few hours.

I already knew to eat clean and listen to my body, to only eat when I was in a calm mental state. Everyone knew. But when you're fat in the head, it's never about knowing the answers. It's about living them.

That's the thing about being a former fat camp champ: when asked if I'd change my past if I could, I always answer no. The pain of being an overweight kid, the humiliation, make you think twice before ever cutting anyone else down.

I'm actually way more funny now, because I'm hungry... If comedy comes from pain, I should be funnier now than I ever was.

Most men's awareness doesn't extend past their dinner plates.

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.

I have never cared much for fish - it floats in the belly as much as in the pond.

Better to look weak and be strong than to look strong and be weak.

If you can’t take responsibility for your own well-being, you will never take control over it.

You can’t make a life-altering decision for someone else and expect it to stick.

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.

'Where and how can I make this meal better for me?' I asked myself that question before every meal—especially in the beginning.

You cannot just work out and then eat poorly and expect to lose weight. It doesn’t work that way.

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.

If you’re not eating the right foods in the right amounts, all the exercise in the world won’t combat the caloric intake.

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.

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.

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.

Anyone can lose a few pounds, but not everyone has the tools to stick with it.

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.

The only battle to win is the battle within, that place where we realize that we deserve to have and create all that we want in our lives.

Behind weight gain are the larger hurts and questions that have to be explored, probed, and understood before weight loss and maintenance is a possibility. It's a bigger issue than just calories in, calories out.

There's something fundamental you have to understand about yourself before you can change your life for good.

Making excuses is not going to get me any closer to my goals.

It gets a lot easier to deal with life's curveballs when you're not hiding under layers of fat.

In order to truly give to others, you have to give to yourself first.

Getting enough sleep can be just as important as working out.

You have to track every single thing you eat if you want to keep posting big numbers on the scale each week.

Chicken exits are self-sabotage. They give you a false explanation for why you don't have something you want.

Big, sweeping life changes really boil down to small, everyday decisions.

Resistance is never the agent of change. You have to embrace the actions that are going to get you closer to your goal.

When weight loss becomes a goal in your life, eating right and exercising are just two pieces of the puzzle. Figuring out why you've put on the extra weight is the hardest part.

When I was overweight and unhappy, I thought about being smaller, I thought about fitting into different clothes and feeling comfortable in any environment or social situation. But I didn't do anything about it. I was letting myself fall victim to not planning, not clarifying steps to reach my goals. Don't go on just wanting something. Start consciously planning where you want to be.

You just have to start putting one foot in front of the other, making an effort to get healthy every day.

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.

A Hospital is no place to be sick.

Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.

It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.

Quit worrying about your health. It'll go away.

Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.

Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

Water is the most neglected nutrient in your diet but one of the most vital.

Health is not simply the absence of sickness.

[Water is] the only drink for a wise man.

Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of, a blessing money can't buy.

Health is not valued till sickness comes.

Health is worth more than learning.

Be not slow to visit the sick.

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.

Make your own recovery the first priority in your life.

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.

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.

One of the most sublime experiences we can ever have is to wake up feeling healthy after we have been sick.

The public health authorities never mention the main reason many Americans have for smoking heavily, which is that smoking is a fairly sure, fairly honorable form of suicide.

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.

For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.

The mistakes made by doctors are innumerable. They err habitually on the side of optimism as to treatment, of pessimism as to the outcome.

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.