Health Quotes

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.