Matt Stone > Quotes

“If we added up all of the special ‘avoidance’ diets, no one could eat anything.  Many people are ruining their health by avoiding too many foods.” -Ray Peat”
― Matt Stone, Diet Recovery: Restoring Hormonal Health, Metabolism, Mood, and Your Relationship with Food

“Your diet shouldn’t have a name or be something you can tweet about using the # sign.  If you, in your chronic dieting ways must name it, it should be your first name, followed by an apostrophe s, and the word “Diet.”  So for example, what I eat is referred to as “Matt’s Diet.”  If your name is Jean Claude Van Damme, then what you eat is called “Jean Claude’s Diet,” and probably consists mostly of metal chards and King Cobra filets.  If your name is Shooter McGavin, then you probably eat pieces of shit like Happy Gilmore for breakfast.”
― Matt Stone, Diet Recovery: Restoring Hormonal Health, Metabolism, Mood, and Your Relationship with Food

“How many fluids should you take in daily?  That is an unanswerable question with all of the variables that affect our fluid needs at any given time.  If you meet anyone who can answer that question for you, run away quickly.”
― Matt Stone, Diet Recovery: Restoring Hormonal Health, Metabolism, Mood, and Your Relationship with Food

“Weight loss is not a goal, it’s either something that happens or doesn’t happen as a result of living, eating, and moving in smarter and healthier ways.”
― Matt Stone, Diet Recovery: Restoring Hormonal Health, Metabolism, Mood, and Your Relationship with Food

“Generally speaking, what you do habitually is everything. What you do on occasion is inconsequential.”
― Matt Stone, Diet Recovery: Restoring Hormonal Health, Metabolism, Mood, and Your Relationship with Food

“Cutting carbs, fats, or calories (dieting) is like trying to hold your breath.  The longer you do it, the more your body resists it until you finally gasp for air – taking in more than ever to overcome the short-term deficit you induced.”
― Matt Stone, Diet Recovery: Restoring Hormonal Health, Metabolism, Mood, and Your Relationship with Food

“Emotions, by their simplest definition, are something we experience when we perceive something as being more negative than positive or more positive than negative. In other words, when our thoughts and perceptions are unbalanced, emotions arise.”
― Matt Stone, Food for Mood: Dietary and Lifestyle Interventions for Anxiety, Depression, and Other Mood Disorders

“Anyone can prove whatever they want. It's easy. I could "prove," via those mechanisms that carbs are the devil, fat is the devil, protein is the devil, grains destroy your digestive tract, grains are the ultimate food for digestive health, fruit is the devil, fruit is the salvation of mankind, dairy is the perfect food, dairy is atherogenic, dairy causes autoimmune disease, dairy cures autoimmune disease, fat makes you fat, fat makes you thin...”
― Matt Stone, Diet Recovery: Restoring Hormonal Health, Metabolism, Mood, and Your Relationship with Food