…I gotta burn these scales… sigh*

He taught us that everyone has a good story and the more of others you understand, the better your grasp of human nature, a gift given great weight in my family.

If the weight comes from bacon you can so deduct it off the scale total to get your true weight. #science

Running would help with the weight, but the weight did not help with running.

That’s the key, you know, confidence. I know for a fact that if you genuinely like your body, so can others. It doesn’t really matter if it’s short, tall, fat or thin, it just matters...

No matter what a woman’s appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize – as her personal problem – observations she makes about the beauty myth...

Fat-bashing in all its varied forms–criticism, exclusion, shaming, fat talk, self-deprecation, jokes, gossip, bullying–is one of the last acceptable forms of prejudice. From a very young age, before they can walk away or defend themselves,...

Constantly stopping to explain oneself may expand into a frustrating burden for the rare individual, so ceasing to do so is like finally dropping the weights and sprinting towards his goals. Those who insincerely misunderstand,...

At some point, it’s time to stop fighting with death, my thighs and the way things are. And to realize that emotional eating in nothing but bolting from multiple versions of the above: the obsession...

I’m gaining weight the right way: I’m drinking beer.

I study men like I study books: I skim their midsections.

After you first tell someone you love them, the weight of the wait for them to tell you they love you too feels like an elephant doing jumping jacks on the back of your mouse-like...

I don’t put weight on fame, and having people around me just because I am famous makes me feel really bad about myself.

Strong emotional feelings don’t just go away overnight. In fact, they may never go away. The fears of feeling disliked, or that I wasn’t going to fit in, all quickly bubbled up to the surface....

I still have to work on my weight and some of my other demons.

and when hecatches meoff guardand says’i love you’i catch himoff guardand say ‘i need your help.

If God meant for us to carry baggage around, he would have made our skin have little pouches like kangaroos. Or maybe he would have just made it so that each and every one of...

No wonder she was so underweight. She was desperate to please a woman that could never be pleased, in the hopes of being loved and accepted by the very person that should be giving that...

I buy my clothes large, so I feel comfortable gaining weight. When I love, I do it in two sizes—extra large, and refill.

But replacing hunger for divine connection with Double Stuf Oreos is like giving a glass of sand to a person dying of thirst. It creates more thirst, more panic.

To lose weight, spend time at the gym. To appear like you’ve lost weight, spend time with people who are bigger than you.

Nothing was a more powerful compass of my mood or a better indication of my self-worth than the number on the scale.

The whole thing of weight, I guess it’s because there is a wider fascination we all have with weight.

My weight always fluctuates by 10 pounds.

She was heavier than he expected – women always are.

I am probably more critical of myself than anyone else, I am very tiny – 5’1 and a half inches – so there’s nowhere for weight to hide.

it’s not his bodythat changesright away.it’s somethinginside. he sayshe wants tobe a littleweaker. i don’tunderstand.i say ‘thinner?’and he says’no, i wantto be strongerin a differentway.’ notbecause of me,but for me.

If women cannot eat the same food as men, we cannot experience equal status in the community.

The women I’m attracted to have to know their worth. That measurement can only be weighed from the inside, and when that’s taken into account and she truly appreciates it? Everything on the outside of...

When I gained weight in 2005, my nutritionist was very worried. I was close to having diabetes.

Food cannot cause you to put on weight, unless you think it can.

When I fully enter time’s swift current, enter into the current moment with the weight of all my attention, I slow the torrent with the weight of me all here.

Education will only take you so far. To go even further, I’d recommend getting a piggyback ride from a midget half your body weight.

I just say that at any weight you should love your life.

I’ll never be the size that has single digits and my thighs will always touch when I walk but I’m ok with that.

Dare to dream and dare to stand out. Get off the beaten path.

I weigh more than I used to. I’ve been eating a lot of fast food, so I must have put on some muscle—without even working out!

In drawing attention to the physical characteristics of women leaders, they can be dismissed as either too pretty or too ugly. The net effect is to prevent women’s identification with the issues. If the public...

It’s the soul that’s starving, not the body

Things that we do every day make up who we are and the results we have in our life. Bank accounts collect from constant deposits and good health is achieved or maintained from what we...

You are walking on thin ice – the ice of what remains of the trust between us – carrying the weight of immeasurable guilt.

Eating is not a crime. It’s not a moral issue. It’s normal. It’s enjoyable. It just is.

Nicole had put on weight. This is the effect which, in three cases out of four, unhappiness has upon women. The process of eating guarantees at least the health of the body.

Weight doesn’t matter. It really doesn’t. I mean, it does if you’re a model or whatever.

Claims have been made that I’ve been on a strict workout routine regulated by co-stars, whipped into shape by trainers I’ve never met, eating sprouted grains I can’t pronounce and ultimately losing 14 pounds off...

Every woman knows that, regardless of all her other achievements, she is a failure if she is not beautiful.

Instead of complimentary breakfasts, why not complimentary compliments? Telling someone they’re looking skinny is sure to help them lose weight faster and feel better than, you know, actually eating.

Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women’s history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one.

The weight of the world is a trifle, if we all put our two fingers under it and try to lift together.

Even the models we see in magazines wish they could look like their own images.