” If you’re going to lose weight, you have to do it by changing your way of thinking about food. It cannot be the highlight of your life. “
” Food is not your remedy for problems. Food is not going to change your life. If you are lonely, food is not going to be your company. If you are sad, food is not going to give you solace. “
” It’s choice – not chance – that determines your destiny. “
” You take away the handicap of obesity, and this person becomes someone else. Take a jolly fat man for instance. You talk to him, and his heart is breaking. He wants to be thin. “
” You have to make the decision to lose weight in your head, not your stomach. “
” At the age of thirty-seven, I was fat, and since the age of thirty-eight, I have never been fat again. That’s the whole idea of effective weight loss – it’s permanent because it’s part of your lifestyle and the way you think about yourself, with pride and a sense of accomplishment. The goal you achieve is your own – you own it. “
” When you’re trying to lose weight, one of the most important things you can do is eat three decent meals a day so that you’re not so hungry that you can’t get food off your mind. Habit and hunger have long been the basic, insidious enemies of the overweight. We can’t fight hunger, but we can fight habit. “
” All you need is one person in a group to be honest, and then slowly, very slowly, everyone else starts telling the truth. That’s why our lecturers must be former members of Weight Watchers. They must have lost weight our way. “
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