“To ask women to become unnaturally thin is to ask them to relinquish their sexuality.”
“To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness indeed.”
“Probably nothing in the world arouses more false hopes Than the first four hours of a diet.”
“'Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms.”
“Not only don't diets work, they're actually designed to fail. It's not you or your lack of will power that's the problem. It's that diets by their very nature simply don't work.”
“Changing our diet is something we choose to do, not something we are forced to do. Instead of dreading it, try saying, ''Here's another thing I get to do to help myself. Great!''”
“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.”