For 24 years of my adult life, by choice I weighed well over 200 lbs. I say by choice because you see I have never accidentally eaten anything.
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Zig Ziglar
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Both belly bulge and love handles are about excess body fat, not lack of muscle. Crunches and ab exercises are therefore not the solution. The best way to reduce these problem areas is to reduce your overall body fat percentage, and we all know that that requires diet and exercise.
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Jillian Michaels
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The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That's what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what happens.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger
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The human body was designed to walk, run or stop; it wasn't built for coasting.
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Cullen Hightower
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We never repent of having eaten too little.
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Thomas Jefferson
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After dinner, rest awhile, after supper, walk a mile.
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Arabic Proverb
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A sound mind in a sound body is a thing to be prayed for.
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Juvenal
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Eat not to dullness, drink not to elevation.
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Benjamin Franklin
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The belly is ungrateful--it always forgets we already gave it something.
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Russian Proverb
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There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.
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Bertrand Russell
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What you eat standing up doesn't count
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Beth Barnes
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Give me a dozen heartbreaks...if you think it would help me lose one pound.
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Colette
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For most celebrities, the biggest meal of the day is toothpaste (they use reduced-fat Crest).
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Dave Barry
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I tried every diet in the book. I tried some that weren’t in the book. I tried eating the book. It tasted better than most of the diets.
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Dolly Parton
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I tried the Scarsdale diet and the Stillman water diet (you remember that one, where you run weight off trying to get to the bathroom).
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Dolly Parton
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Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the 'Titanic' who waved off the dessert cart.
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Erma Bombeck
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One meal a day is enough for a lion and would be for all of us if all we did all day was swat flies.
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Erma Bombeck
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No diet will remove all the fat from your body because the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain, you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office.
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George Bernard Shaw
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The foods that are recommended today are as palatable as a steady diet of wet blotters.
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Groucho Marx
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A diet is when you watch what you eat and wish you could eat what you watch.
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Hermione Gingold
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The 2nd day of a diet is always easier than the 1st. By the 2nd day you're off it.
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Jackie Gleason
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I went on a diet, swore off drinking and heavy eating, and in fourteen days I had lost exactly two weeks.
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Joe E. Lewis
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Obesity is really widespread.
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Joseph O. Kern II
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I don't diet. I just don't eat as much as I'd like to.
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Linda Evangelista
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I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.
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Mae West
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Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
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Mark Twain
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Never eat more than you can lift.
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Miss Piggy
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My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
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Orson Welles
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The typical old-fashioned diet (in the nineteenth century) was so bad it almost assembled modern dieting.
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P. J. O'Rourke
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Complaining will not change things in your life; only action will. Make a list of all you need to do to change what doesn't work in your life and, little by little, begin making those changes.
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Susan Jeffers
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The price of success is much lower than the price of failure.
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Zig Ziglar
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When you're going through hell, keep going.
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Winston Churchill
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If you think you are beaten you are, if you think you dare not, you don't. If you like to win, but you think you can't, it is almost certain you won't.
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Napoleon Hill
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We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.
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Dr Martin Luther King
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Rule your mind or it will rule you.
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Horace
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The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like and do what you'd rather not.
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Mark Twain
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Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other.
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Robert F Kennedy
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It is time for us to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever, the one who recognises the challenge and does something about it.
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Vince Lombardi
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There are two primary choices in life; to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibilty for changing them.
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Denis Waitley
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If you don't know where you are going how will you know when you get there?
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Author Unknown
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When the sun comes up each day, be up and out with it.
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Author Unknown
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A change from unhealthy habits to healthy habits will yield extraordinary results.
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Author Unknown
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Marathon runners don't worry about the conditions, they just run anyway!
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Author Unknown
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Winners feel like winners
Losers feel like losers
How do you feel?
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Author Unknown
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There is no such thing as luck. Success comes from actually doing it.
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Author Unknown
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If you don't dare to begin, you don't stand a chance of getting there.
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Author Unknown
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Choose to be up here at the top, not down there at the bottom.
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Author Unknown
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Your life is not a rehearsal. Don't leave it without giving it your all.
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Author Unknown
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When you stop giving, when you stop offering something to someone, it's time to turn out the light.
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George Burns
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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.
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Carl Sandburg
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The world of achievement has always belonged to the optimist.
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Harold Wilkins
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There is nothing permanent except change.
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Heraclitus
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Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
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Author Unknown
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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
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Elie Wiesel
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We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
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When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Who has courage to say no again and again to desires, to despise the objects of ambition, who is a whole in himself, smoothed and rounded.
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Quintus Horatius Flaccus Horace
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Some succeed because they are destined to, but most succeed because they are determined to.
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G. Clegg
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Fall seven times, stand up eight times.
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Japanese Proverb
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Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.
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C. Coolidge
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Being defeated is only a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
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M. vos Savant
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Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.
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N. Hill
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Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage!
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Dale Carnegie
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There are many ways to fail, but only one way to succeed; NEVER GIVE UP!
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J. Pangalila
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Accomplishment of small things leads to mighty things...
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C. Hardy
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A big shot is a little shot that keeps shooting.
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I keep trying to lose weight but it keeps finding me.
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Author Unknown
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Those who get too big for their britches, will be exposed in the end.
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Author Unknown
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The best way to lose weight is to eat all you want of everything you don't like.
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Author Unknown
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The older you get, the tougher it is to lose weight because by then, your body and your fat are really good friends
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Author Unknown
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Your body is the baggage you must carry through life. The more excess the baggage, the shorter the trip.
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Arnold H. Glasgow
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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.
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Carl Sandburg
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The world of achievement has always belonged to the optimist.
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Harold Wilkins
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There is nothing permanent except change.
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Heraclitus
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Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
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Swedish Proverb
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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
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Elie Wiesel
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We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
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When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Who has courage to say no again and again to desires, to despise the objects of ambition, who is a whole in himself, smoothed and rounded.
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Quintus Horatius Flaccus Horace
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You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be.
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David Viscott
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