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.

[Henry Cavendish] fixed the weight of the earth; he established the proportions of the constituents of the air; he occupied himself with the quantitative study of the laws of heat; and lastly, he demonstrated the...

I did not know the work of mourningIs like carrying a bag of cementUp a mountain at nightThe mountaintop is not in sightBecause there is no mountaintopPoor Sisyphus griefI did not know I would struggleThrough...

Staying requires being curious about who you actually are when you don’t take yourself to be a collection of memories.When you don’t infer your existence form replaying what happened to you, when you don’t take...

To a man, a woman is fun to be with … until she gains weight. To a woman, a man is fun to live with … until he loses his job.

I got fat, and I decided to do something about it, so I got fatter.

I stuff another handful of Raisinets in my mouth. What gets me is the ‘pretty face’ bit. ‘Cause I won’t mind being reminded I’m fat as long as you water it down first. Why not...

Want to lose weight? Do more than just think about it. You don’t need to hold off while you keep searching for an abundance of motivation to lose weight.What you need is an abundance of...

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...