Weight Management Quotes

“What is Insulin?
Insulin is a hormone that allows the glucose (also called blood sugar) in your blood to get out of your bloodstream and into your cells for energy for whatever your current activity or inactivity is. If you have more glucose in your bloodstream than your current energy need, the excess is stored in your liver (called glycogen in its storage form). If your liver is full and you still have excess glucose in your bloodstream, the rest is stored as body fat around your butt, thighs, belly—and generally every place you don’t want it to be. ”
― Rick Mystrom, Glucose Control Eating: Lose Weight Stay Slimmer Live Healthier Live Longer

“It is mainly the soluble fiber and magnesium that lowered the author's fasting pre-diabetes blood glucose to 90s and 100s without taking medication”
― Howard T. Joe M.S. Ph.D., Essential Guide to Treat Diabetes and to Lower Cholesterol

“The Premise of Glucose Control Eating©
You control the amount of glucose you put into your bloodstream. Put in less glucose, your body will produce less insulin, and you will lose weight. Put in more glucose, your body will produce more insulin, and you will gain weight. That brings us to the premise of this book.
 
Control your glucose, and you control your weight.
 
How do you control your glucose and your weight? 
 
How can you know which foods create lots of glucose and weight gain and which create less glucose and weight loss?
 
In the book, Glucose Control Eating©, I will not only tell you, but I will also show you, based on over 85,000 blood glucose tests, how much glucose different foods will create in your body.”
― Rick Mystrom, Glucose Control Eating: Lose Weight Stay Slimmer Live Healthier Live Longer

“How We Gain and Lose Weight
To understand how we gain and lose weight, we need to start with insulin. Medical researchers and internal medicine doctors almost universally agree that the amount of insulin a person produces determines weight gain and weight loss. For example, Gary Taubes, a medical researcher and recipient of multiple awards from the National Association of Science Writers, refers to insulin as “the stop-and-go light of weight gain and loss.” 
 
Produce more insulin—you will gain weight. Produce less insulin— you will lose weight.”
― Rick Mystrom, Glucose Control Eating: Lose Weight Stay Slimmer Live Healthier Live Longer

“What Foods Create Blood Glucose?
Blood glucose is not created just by sweets—it’s created by all foods. Proteins create glucose, fats create glucose, vegetables create glucose, fruits create glucose, fruit juices create glucose, starchy foods create glucose, and of course, sweets create glucose. So the key to losing weight is to consume less of the foods (including drinks) that create large amounts of glucose and replace them with foods and beverages that create smaller amounts of glucose and go into the bloodstream more slowly.”
― Rick Mystrom, Glucose Control Eating: Lose Weight Stay Slimmer Live Healthier Live Longer

“Your current body is the only body that can take you to your new body—so be kind to it.”
― Elaine Moran

“While most people are playing it safe and doing everything they can to avoid pain, successful people know that they must face their fears and do what needs to be done regardless of how they feel. They don’t necessarily like the hard work, but they’re willing to do it because they like the results.”
― Elaine Moran

“We can only bring about change in our lives when we clearly see two truths: that the pain of remaining the same is greater than the pain of fighting our toughest battles, and that by taking the biggest risks, we gain the most valuable rewards.”
― Elaine Moran

“While your ego is always trying to figure out its place in the world, your true self knows that your place is always right here, right now.”
― Elaine Moran

“We may not be able to control life’s circumstances, but we always have a choice about how we use our minds to respond to them.”
― Elaine Moran

“Break the rules and make up your own rules.”
― Elle Meyer, Living the Thin Life: Creative Ways to Maintain Your Weight for Life

“Believe it or not, your body has nothing but unconditional love for you. The proof? Without any effort on your part, your heart is beating, your lungs are breathing, and the rhythm of life is graciously flowing through you every second of every day—unconditionally.”
― Elaine Moran

“The reason we have such a difficult time losing weight permanently is not because we are making bad choices, but because we are not stopping our automatic subconscious programmed behaviors in their tracks.”
― Elaine Moran

“You can eat anything you want, just not everything you want!”
― Elle Meyer, Living the Thin Life: Creative Ways to Maintain Your Weight for Life

“It's never too late to start eating right.”
― Elle Meyer, Living the Thin Life: Creative Ways to Maintain Your Weight for Life

“The Decision

...I wiped my hands on my pinafore
now sullied and stained
not crisp or pressed
as it had been before...”
― Muse, Enigmatic Evolution

“Health is life energy in abundance.”
― Julia H Sun

“People practically always steal food when they are hungry, and low-calorie diets mean weakness and hunger... No! Counting calories is for the birds. There should be no sensation of hunger in proper weight reduction.”
― Dr. Blake F. Donaldson, Strong Medicine

“...your attempts to control your eating and body may well be what’s sabotaging your weight and health.”
― Tansy Boggon, Joyful Eating: How to Break Free of Diets and Make Peace with Your Body

“Avoiding temptation is much easier than resisting it.”
― Elle Meyer, Living the Thin Life: Creative Ways to Maintain Your Weight for Life

“My bridled soul leaps under the pressure of desires,
Chained i am by this organic-societal form from galloping free
My mind heaves me to safety,but heart is ready for doom...
An all knowing glance pierced deep through my skin
Smiling at my ailing and confused form,
Invading my senses, feeding them to the eternal fires...”
― Gayathri Jayakumar

“Diets don't really work & can be destructive, but if you get healthy overall (mind, body, spirit) then your weight balances naturally.”
― Jay Woodman

“Your weight controls you because you believe you can control it.”
― Tansy Boggon, Joyful Eating: How to Break Free of Diets and Make Peace with Your Body

“The truth is, if I were going to lose weight successfully, I would have to think about what I eat constantly. I cannot imagine a life more boring and a more time-consuming obsession than being preoccupied with what I eat.”
― Mindy Kaling

“An image of myself, in a year’s time, passed in front of my eyes. Rolled. An image of a giant bagel with legs and arms fluttering about rolled in front of my eyes.”
― Orson De Witt, Earth Won't Miss You

“When they cut me open, I want them to say, “Damn! This woman ate well.”
― Haylyn Quill, The Delectable Habit of Losing Weight: How to successfully commit to your weight loss goals

“Food enjoyment is a vital component of a vibrant life.”
― Anna Kazmierczak, How to eat Mindfully and Mindlessly lose weight

“Skinny doesn’t make for happy, folks. The big, elusive promise of achieving some kind of skin-and-bones victory over ourselves is a lie.”
― Sarah Hays Coomer, Physical Disobedience: An Unruly Guide to Health and Stamina for the Modern Feminist

“Truth on social media can offer hope in tragedy. It can also offer solace for a plethora of quiet insecurities that plague our daily lives, the ones that hover in our minds but go unspoken,”
― Sarah Hays Coomer, Physical Disobedience: An Unruly Guide to Health and Stamina for the Modern Feminist

“A lifetime spent merely enduring your body squanders your power and forfeits your capacity for contentment. ”
― Sarah Hays Coomer, Physical Disobedience: An Unruly Guide to Health and Stamina for the Modern Feminist