“Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss.”
Pat Riley
“Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.”
Norman Cousins
“Weight loss is not just about behavior and willpower; it's biological. There is a coordinated mechanism in the body — designed to prevent you from starving to death — that makes weight loss difficult.”
Louis Aronne
“It is ironic that we focus on weight loss, when the real challenge is weight maintenance.”
James Hill
“You have to face your fears and challenge them head on, or your psychological land mines will blow up your weight loss dreams.”
Nigel Jeal
“You need only a 5-10 percent loss of weight to get major gains in life expectancy.”
David Bell
“Keeping off a large weight loss is a phenomenon about as common in American medicine as an impoverished dermatologist.”
Calvin Trillin
