It’s not enough to say you want to lose fifty, seventy, or a hundred and twenty pounds. Because once you hit those magic numbers, what happens then? Where is the motivation to continue with this...

To ask women to become unnaturally thin is to ask them to relinquish their sexuality.

Dwarves are very much of the earth and feel connected to the earth; considering gravity, their weight is low, but they’re not small.

Nobody is rewarded for occupying a position, but for becoming effective in the position occupied. If you occupy a position, you must have the weight of influence in order to matter!

I am overweight. But to me, it’s fat. I don’t have Body Dysmorphic Disorder. When I look in the mirror I don’t plunge into a depression and stick my finger down my throat or carve...

The moon should be colonised, I thought. Mankind should seek a happier beginning, and humans should be free to stroll hand in hand regardless of their weight and orientation.

I used to be a fighter and I’m used to taking weight off.

Thin people, God bless them, God curse them, don’t get it: If you’re not thin, you need to be careful and conscious about when and how you suitors initially see you.

saturated & silent… i stand beneath your blackest cloud, absorbing all i can of the pain you felt.

By choosing healthy over skinny you are choosing self-love over self-judgment. You are beautiful!

The skinnier and more toned I got, the fatter I felt.The more in shape I got, the more out of shape I felt like I was.And the more I made myself look good to the...

Having low self-esteem and a shield of lard are not guarantees of safety. Having a warrior spirit, high self worth (most people are assaulted by someone they know, so if you think you’re only worthy...

The media made the masses to find not-so-skinny women appear not-so-beautiful … in the eyes of the remote holder.

If you aren’t losing weight, and you know you need to (you know), then you gotta go look in the mirror. Step up and own it. Don’t hate yourself. Don’t play the victim. Just admit...

my mind struggled top condense all that had led to me being here. My vocal cords fought to express the memories that leaked out; I felt the weight of it all pressing down on me.

Shall we never never get rid of this Past? … It lies upon the Present like a giant’s dead body.

I always figured we were born to fly, one way or other, so I couldn’t stand most men shuffling along with all the iron of the earth in their blood. I never met a man...

I had a dream about you, I was cooking dinner and you came out of the bathroom with a troubled look on your face. When I asked what was wrong you said “I have never...

a woman who can fit in a size seven, five, or three isn’t the definition of what beautiful means to me.

J_Doe032692 wrote: I am not a thin person. However this does not give people the right to taunt me, calling me ugly and worthless, telling me to kill myself because no one will ever want...

Since I never get on a scale, I have no idea how much weight I’ve lost!

I’ve been chained to my bathroom scale for two decades now. I’ve used the number on my scale to tell me if I’m valuable or not. I’ve let the number on my scale destroy many...

There are a lot of valid reasons for wanting to feel safer. But hiding from pain or perceived threats behind a wall of weight is not the way to go about it. First of all,...

Mámá was fond of saying that nothing tastes as good as skinny feels—an aphorism I was pretty sure she’d cribbed from the thinspiration sites she subscribed to online—but I believed that anyone who said such...

Consequently, any boy who appeared at such a time was bound to carry a certain weight, a sort of saving grace, a fateful gravity.

My vocal chords fought to contain the memories that leaked out; I felt the weight off it all pressing down on me.

I spent most of my youth hauling sides of beef and pork to my father’s shop. Carrying you is far more enjoyable.””How sweet,” Annabelle mumbled sickly, her eyes closed. “Every woman dreams of being told...

I’ve got to make sure I’m keeping weight on.

every woman is beautifulbeyond what a magazine can see,whether she’s a size larger than 10or a size smaller than 3.

On day one of the drive, I saw my first dome sky. The world was so flat that I could see the level horizon all around me and the sky looked like a dome. Skies...

I’ve been into weight training for many, many years and you add to that a good dose of cardio, don’t overindulge, and you can do all right.

I enjoy a torture session on the rowing machine and I also enjoy my mom’s homemade peach cobbler. I enjoy flopping like that dead fish with hips that can’t lie in dance class, and I...

Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose!

When a man’s bank balance becomes too small, his woman flees. For a man to do the same, his woman’s body — or vagina — has to do the opposite.

Some words are sweet but unprotifable! Some are bitter but important. First weigh your words on the counter of integrity and speak not only because your words are sweet, but because they contain the truth!

The Decision…I wiped my hands on my pinaforenow sullied and stainednot crisp or pressedas it had been before…

It is not easy to find someone your size once the Freshman Fifteen turns to the Sophomore Forty or the Senior Sixty. Even when, through some miracle of self-restraint and bulimia, college girls managed to...

Finally, I could see with startling clarity that the time I had spent experiencing pain on a run was outweighed by the amount of time that I felt good about it. I was aglow. I...

I put on weight like Santa Claus. I just get this belly that kind of extends out.

A lot of people are doing something about their weight, but by their own reckoning, it isn’t enough to get the results they want.

It’s inspiring, I think, for women out there to see I’m a regular person. I am the every woman who’s struggled with my weight.

I’m not going to miss 95% of life to weigh 5% less.

I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.

In some cases, people with a body (whose size) they did not long for are victims of having a bank balance (whose size) they longed for.

The size of the tree you cut determines the weight with which you have to throw the axe.

I want to change my life…except I sort of like it. I mean, I couldn’t be more delighted every Monday night after Fletch goes to bed when I come downstairs, pull up the Bachelor on...

In 1944-1945, Dr Ancel Keys, a specialist in nutrition and the inventor of the K-ration, led a carefully controlled yearlong study of starvation at the University of Minnesota Laboratory of Physiological Hygiene. It was hoped...

You don’t run,’ he corrected me. ‘But you’re more than able.’ There was no shadow of doubt in his voice. Hearing it from someone else made me realize: there was nothing stopping me from running...

Xavier stares past her with watery eyes. ‘Why does the world feel the need to drop its weight upon my shoulders?’ he barely whispers. His mother strokes his hair.’Maybe it believes you can handle it,’...

A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience.