Jan Murray
Author, Poet
"Dieting: A system of starving yourself to death so you can live a little longer."
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Dieting
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Lara Stone
Model
"I think of dieting, then I eat pizza."
Elizabeth Gilbert
Author, Memoirist
"I am a better person when I have less on my plate."
Lady Gaga
Singer, Actress
"The dieting wars have got to stop."
David Foster Wallace
Writer
"Dieting makes me want to murder everyone around me."
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"The storm hit with all the fury of a woman who’d been dieting for six months, only to discover she’d gained four pounds."
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"The Diet Mentality has come about because there is agreement in our society that the only way to lose weight is by dieting. But dieting produces absolutely no permanent, positive results. In fact, it makes you feel worse about yourself and probably does more damage than good to your health."
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"Physical fitness is in. I recently had a physical fit myself."
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"I didn't realize that diets don't work, and I did not want to diet. I didn't want to do anything that required dieting."
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"I didn't just fall off the wagon. I let the wagon fall on me."
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