Overweight Quotes

My Dad was overweight and unhealthy, and he died young. I wasn't going to let that happen to me.

What if I was! That’s my point. What if I was a bit overweight and not especially pretty? Why is that so terrible? So disgusting? Why is that the end of the world?

Like most severely overweight people, I had to hit a rock-hard bottom before I'd take responsibility for the consequences of neglecting my own health.

I had a great childhood, a very close-knit family. We were all overweight, and we had good times eating together, I imagine.

There are varied experiences of overweight women throughout the country; theres not just one experience.

I've been overweight all my life.

No one can make fun of overweight people in front of me!

Yeah, but I do call them back and follow up. Most people talk at overweight people, I talk with them.

Back in the 70s and 80s, women felt the discrimination of being overweight. And now 35% of the letters I receive are from men.

When I talk to kids who are overweight, I see my face on their bodies.

Some people like to look at pictures of themselves before they lost weight. I don't particularly care for that. Whenever I was overweight, it was a very sad time in my life.

People who are overweight face discrimination. African-Americans face discrimination. Women face discrimination and sexism. So I don't have the luxury of not being tolerant of anyone.

Kids in America today are overweight and lazy, and it's their parents fault for letting it happen.

I've talked to so many people, men and women alike, that get overweight and their self-esteem just goes in the tank. They think they're judged. They think they're unattractive.

If you see a black woman with an overweight white man, you know she got effed up credit!

When I was young and growing up overweight, I believed the "eaten" was more powerful than the "eater," meaning the food was more powerful than I was.

I'm totally inhibited. When I'm overweight I will not go out.

Although I have never been 100 lbs overweight, I know the effects of not feeling comfortable in my own skin.

People are so funny. There's no winning with commenters or anonymous people. They'd be rude that I was overweight, and now they're rude that I'm healthy.

Even when I wasn't overweight I was never one of those girls or women who wanted to look nice. I always thought it wasn't important.

In America today, the percentage of children and adolescents who are defined as overweight is more than double what it was in the early 1970s.

I don't want to fly the flag for being unhealthy and overweight, but I don't want to fly the flag for being too thin, either.

Also, I sort of let my appearance go, to the point where I was maybe ten to seventy pounds overweight.

P.E. was my life in school. Without it, I wouldn't be standing here. It gave me confidence when I was an overweight kid with a speech impediment.

I spent my childhood alone, overweight and ugly, angry at everything, and knowing nothing of a life beyond this sadness.

In America, more than half the population are overweight. It's not healthy and I'm not proud of that but I don't hate having a woman's body.

I arrived in Hollywood twenty pounds overweight and as strong as an ox.

There just are not a lot of overweight people in Hollywood.

Maybe it's because I have too much pride or self-respect, but I thought, 'Why does a guy who has thinning hair and who is overweight have to be a loser or a joke?'

Poverty, like obesity, has the tendency to add at least ten years to the appearance of its victims, especially those who are over the age of twenty.

Eating a salad (in public) is an overweight person’s attempt to appear in control.

In some cases, people with a body (whose size) they did not long for are victims of having a bank balance (whose size) they longed for.

He who makes fun of a short and fat man’s weight is much less cruel than he who makes fun of his height.

If you want to heal a broken heart, Be smart! That's all an ancient art.Start by loving the very small partsThat were left there shattered apart.

You're FAT - and don't try to sugarcoat it, because you'll just eat that, too.

One of the leading causes of obesity is the misbelief that, when it comes to juice, ‘100%’ means ‘sugar-free.

Famine sometimes increases the number of people who are overweight.

Many obese people spend a significant amount of their energy on suppressing the urge to tell some of the people who are staring at them that they do not eat as much and as frequently as they seem to.