#weight

I was gaining weight very rapidly and read about the idea of restricting carbohydrates as an alternative to going hungry. I had a big appetite, so that was the only thing I would even consider. ↗

— Robert Atkins

#alternative #appetite #big #carbohydrates #consider

I am now in that happy comfortable state that I do not hesitate to indulge in any fancy in regard to diet, but watch the consequences, and do not continue any course which adds to weight or bulk and consequent discomfort. ↗

— William Banting

#adds #am #any #bulk #comfortable

Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

#born #golden #heavy #heavy weights #juggle

After a lifetime of losing and gaining weight, I get it. No matter how you slice it, weight loss comes down to the simple formula of calories in, calories out. ↗

— Valerie Bertinelli

#calories #comes #down #formula #gaining

I think a lot of people think because I was getting the divorce, that was really the catalyst for gaining so much weight. ↗

— Valerie Bertinelli

#catalyst #divorce #gaining #getting #i

The natural movement of one's soul is upwards. But just as any object is dragged down when a heavy weight is tied to it, the burden of the body drags down the soul. ↗

— Vinoba Bhave

#body #burden #down #dragged #drags

The books or the music in which we thought the beauty was located will betray us if we trust them; it was not in them, it only came through them, and what came through was longing... For they are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#beauty

The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction. ↗

— Allen Ginsberg

#dissatisfaction #love #solitude #under #weight

Your body has enough weight for you to be in perfect condition just working against yourself. ↗

— Jean Claude Van Damme

#body #condition #enough #just #perfect

Don't call me a mindless philosopher, you overweight glob of grease. ↗

— Anthony Daniels

#grease #me #mindless #overweight #philosopher