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"Behind weight gain are the larger hurts and questions that have to be explored, probed, and understood before weight loss and maintenance is a possibility. It's a bigger issue than just calories in, calories out."
"When I was overweight and unhappy, I thought about being smaller, I thought about fitting into different clothes and feeling comfortable in any environment or social situation. But I didn't do anything about it. I was letting myself fall victim to not planning, not clarifying steps to reach my goals. Don't go on just wanting something. Start consciously planning where you want to be."
"Making excuses is not going to get me any closer to my goals."
"You have to track every single thing you eat if you want to keep posting big numbers on the scale each week."
"When weight loss becomes a goal in your life, eating right and exercising are just two pieces of the puzzle. Figuring out why you've put on the extra weight is the hardest part."
"All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish."
"Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens to the which our wills are gardeners."
"Get Health. No labor, effort nor exercise that can gain it must be grudged."
"Health and appetite impart the sweetness to sugar, bread and meat."
"Health is so necessary to all the duties, as well as pleasures of life, that the crime of squandering it is equal to the folly."
"Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge. Remedies from chemicals will never stand in favor compared with the products of nature, the living cell of the plant, the final result of the rays of the sun, the mother of all life."
"We are bullish on the health benefits, but they have to bring value."
"Illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick."
"You must all pay attention to your health first."
"The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others."
"I had my moments when I got very frightened that I would not recover."
"There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health."
"Every day we touch what is wrong, and, as a result, we are becoming less and less healthy. That is why we have to learn to practice touching what is not wrong—inside us and around us. When we get in touch with our eyes, our heart, our liver, our breathing, and our non-toothache and really enjoy them, we see that the conditions for peace and happiness are already present."
"Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady."
"Strength and weakness of mind are misnomers; they are really nothing but the good or bad health of our bodily organs."
