Dieting Quotes and Sayings

If you wish to grow thinner, diminish your dinner.
- H.S. Leigh

Food has replaced sex in my life; now, I can’t even get into my own pants.
- Author Unknown

Where do you go to get anorexia?
- Shelley Winters

If food is your best friend, it’s also your worst enemy.
- Edward Grandpa Jones

An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.
- Irv Kupcinet

In the Middle Ages they had guillotines, stretch racks, whips and cahins.  Nowadays, we have a much more effective torture device called the bathroom scale.
- Stephen Phillips

Nothing tastes as good as being thin feels.
- Author Unknown

Life itself is the proper binge.
- Julia Child

You can’t lose weight by talking about it.  You have to keep your mouth shut.
- Author Unknown

Don’t go out of your weigh to please anyone but yourself.
- Author Unknown

I started dieting. I dieted, dieted, dieted and tried all the diets and I would lose and then I would go back to normal eating and would put it on and then some.
- Suzanne Somers

More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.
- John Kenneth Galbraith

I have a great diet.  You’re allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat people.
- Ed Bluestone

A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.
- Author Unknown

Food is an important part of a balanced diet.
- Fran Lebowitz

When I buy cookies I eat just four and throw the rest away.  But first I spray them with Raid so I won’t dig them out of the garbage later.  Be careful, though, because that Raid really doesn’t taste that bad.
- Janette Barber

If I can’t have too many truffles I’ll do without.
- Colette

The one way to get thin is to re-establish a purpose in life.
- Cyril Connolly

I’ve been on a diet for two weeks and all I’ve lost is two weeks.
- Totie Fields

Hope is a very thin diet.
- Thomas Shadwell