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.

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.

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.