Favorite Health / Weight Loss / Working out Quotes

I am a quote junky. I regularly share good ones I find with my MFP friends but thought I would start a thread here too. I find so much encouragement and inspiration, and sometimes a kick in the pants from other people's wise words.

Here are some of my favorites - feel free to add your own, and I will do the same.

Feel free to add me as a friend if you like this sort of thing too, the more the merrier.

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Emotional eating is an attempt to deal with a tough problem, feeling, or situation we don’t otherwise know how to deal with, and often don’t even know that we have without some kind of symptom to remind us. …..When we strip away the judgement of our emotional eating, and stop calling it a disease, a defect, a problem in and of itself; we can finally see it for what it is: An alert that something in our life needs our attention. Something completely unrelated to food or our weight. Be grateful for the reminder. Isabel Foxen Duke

There was a phantom woman in my mind that I was comparing myself to, and I had to force her from the dressing room. When she was gone, I looked at my body, the body that had kept me alive for nearly thirty years, without any serious health problems, the body that had taken me where I needed to go and protected me. I had never appreciated or loved the body that had done so much for me. I had thought of it as my enemy, as nothing more than a shell that enclosed my real self, but it wasn’t a shell. The body was me. This is your real life. You’re already living it. Sarai Walker

Doctors won’t make you healthy. Nutritionists won’t make you slim. Teachers won’t make you smart. Gurus won’t make you calm. Mentors won’t make you rich. Trainers won’t make you fit. Ultimately, you have to take responsibility. Save yourself. – Naval Ravikant

Always remember: good things take time.

Every day is another chance to get stronger, to eat better, to live healthier, and to be the best version of you. —Unknown

Fitness is not about being better than someone else… It’s about being better than you used to be. – Khloe Kardashian

I don’t workout because I hate my body, I workout because I love my body.

If you’re tired of starting over, stop giving up.

In fitness, there are no shortcuts. It involves immense discipline and hard work. – Mahesh Babu

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. – Jim Ryin

Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway. – Earl Nightingale

No matter how slow you go you still lapping everyone on the couch.

The voice in your head that says you can’t do this is a liar.

Today I will do what others won’t, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can’t. —Jerry Rice

You can either suffer the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. -Jim Rohn

Develop a healthy relationship with food. If you’re hungry, eat. If you’re full, don’t eat. Eat vegetables to be good to your body, but eat ice cream to be good to your soul. Take pictures of yourself frequently. Chronicle your life. Selfies are completely underrated. Even if the pictures are unflattering, keep them anyway. There will always be mountains and cities and buildings, but you will never look the same way as you did in that one moment in time. Your worth does not depend on how desirable someone finds you. Spend less time in front of the mirror and more time with people who make you feel beautiful. Tina Tran