35 Inspiring Quotes On Weight

In the journey to achieving health and wellness, words have the power to inspire, motivate, and transform our thoughts. Whether you're striving for a healthier lifestyle, seeking encouragement to stay active, or simply looking for some motivating words to keep you on track with your wellness goals, the right quote can be a powerful catalyst for positive change. We've curated a collection of 35 inspiring quotes that speak directly to those on a weight loss journey, each offering a unique perspective on shedding pounds and gaining confidence. Let these words of wisdom from renowned thinkers, fitness gurus, and wellness advocates be your guide as you embrace a healthier, happier version of yourself.

1. “In two decades I've lost a total of 789 pounds. I should be hanging from a charm bracelet.” - Erma Bombeck

2. “I want to change my life...except I sort of like it. I mean, I couldn't be more delighted every Monday night after Fletch goes to bed when I come downstairs, pull up the Bachelor on TiVo, drink Riesling, and eat cheddar/port wine Kaukauna cheese without freakign out over fat grams. I'm perpetually in a good mood because I do everything I want. I love having the freedom to skip the gym to watch a Don Knots movie on the Disney Channel without a twinge of guilt. I've figured out how to not be beholden to what other people believe I should be doing, and when the world tells me I ought to be a size eight, I can thumb my nose at them in complete empowerment.” - Jen Lancaster

3. “Aside from the fact that they say it's unhealthy, my fat ain't never been no trouble. Mens always have loved me. My kids ain't never complained. Plus they's fat.” - Alice Walker

4. “The weight of the world is a trifle, if we all put our two fingers under it and try to lift together.” - Vera Nazarian

5. “Shall we never never get rid of this Past? ... It lies upon the Present like a giant's dead body.” - Nathaniel Hawthorne

6. “Nothing was a more powerful compass of my mood or a better indication of my self-worth than the number on the scale.” - Betsy Lerner

7. “Every bride and groom in the history of civilization has gained weight after their wedding day. It is only a matter of time until archaeologists unearth a married caveman who's wearing a pair of old tux pants that were so tight he couldn't get the zipper closed.” - Peter Scott

8. “Time to go run the calories away, do away with all the numbers stalking you, throw out the bad habits and excess weight.” - Alysha Speer

9. “I'm 190 pounds of rock hard muscle, underneath 40 pounds of sturdy protective fat.” - John Swartzwelder

10. “Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose!” - Karl Lagerfeld

11. “You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.” - Toni Morrison

12. “From his shoulder on down, the Rat felt the supple weight of her body. An odd sensation, that weight. This being that could love a man, bear children, grow old, and die; to think one whole existence was in this weight.” - Haruki Murakami

13. “I spent most of my youth hauling sides of beef and pork to my father's shop. Carrying you is far more enjoyable.""How sweet," Annabelle mumbled sickly, her eyes closed. "Every woman dreams of being told that she's preferable to a dead cow.” - Lisa Kleypas

14. “Weight doesn’t matter. It really doesn’t. I mean, it does if you’re a model or whatever.” - Meg Cabot

15. “The skinnification of America's jeanscape has gone too far.” - Steven Colbert

16. “We have a weight to carryand a distance we must go.We have a weight to carry,a destination we can't know.We have a weight to carryand can put it down nowhere.We are the weight we carryfrom there to here to there.” - Book of Counted Sorrows

17. “The hatchet must fall on the block; the oak must be cleft to the centre. The weight of the world is on my shoulders. Here is the pen and the paper; on the letters in the wire basket I sign my name, I, I, and again I.” - Virginia Woolf

18. “No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.” - Naomi Wolf

19. “A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience.” - Naomi Wolf

20. “Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women's history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one.” - Naomi Wolf

21. “Eating is not a crime. It’s not a moral issue. It’s normal. It’s enjoyable. It just is.” - Carrie Arnold

22. “To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.” - Simone de Beauvoir

23. “In drawing attention to the physical characteristics of women leaders, they can be dismissed as either too pretty or too ugly. The net effect is to prevent women's identification with the issues. If the public women is stigmatized as too 'pretty,' she's a threat, a rival--or simply not serious; if derided as too 'ugly,' one risks tarring oneself with the same brush by identifying oneself with her agenda.” - Naomi Wolf

24. “Every woman knows that, regardless of all her other achievements, she is a failure if she is not beautiful.” - Germaine Greer

25. “That’s the key, you know, confidence. I know for a fact that if you genuinely like your body, so can others. It doesn’t really matter if it’s short, tall, fat or thin, it just matters that you can find some things to like about it. Even if that means having a good laugh at the bits of it that wobble independently, occasionally, that’s all right. It might take you a while to believe me on this one, lots of people don’t because they seem to suffer from self-hatred that precludes them from imagining that a big woman could ever love herself because they don’t. But I do. I know what I’ve got is a bit strange and difficult to love but those are the very aspects that I love the most! It’s a bit like people. I’ve never been particularly attracted to the uniform of conventional beauty. I’m always a bit suspicious of people who feel compelled to conform. I personally like the adventure of difference. And what’s beauty, anyway?” - Dawn French

26. “...I gotta burn these scales... sigh*” - Hiroko Sakai

27. “Food cannot cause you to put on weight, unless you think it can.” - Rhonda Byrne

28. “I am overweight. But to me, it's fat. I don't have Body Dysmorphic Disorder. When I look in the mirror I don't plunge into a depression and stick my finger down my throat or carve FAT in my arm with a pickle fork. I can appreciate when I look good aside from the weight. Sometimes I might say, Oh, I'm having a good face day.And a few times, after checking my appearance in the mirror before a date, I'd say, Okay. I'd date me. And I know if I ever could get the extra tonnage off, I'd be the first one to parade around in my underwear, or have no qualms about getting naked with a hottie, while the lights were still on in the room.” - Kelli Jae Baeli

29. “She'd lost two more pounds. A picture of the models she'd cut out of the magazine flashed through Kessa's mind. And the winner is... seventy-three!” - Steven Levenkron

30. “iv. who was itwho invented size zero?who was itwho promisedthat if you gotto a certain pointyou would nolongerbe?” - David Levithan

31. “and when hecatches meoff guardand says'i love you'i catch himoff guardand say 'i need your help.” - David Levithan

32. “On day one of the drive, I saw my first dome sky. The world was so flat that I could see the level horizon all around me and the sky looked like a dome. Skies like that will give you perspective when nothing else will. The second day, a tumbleweed blew across the interstate. I’m in a western movie, I said to myself, laughing. I found it so much easier to laugh now that this weight had been lifted from my shoulders.” - Kimberly Novosel

33. “How much weight you can carry in your mind will determine how far you can go in life!” - Mehmet Murat ildan

34. “REFUSALWhen you refuseto tell your weightand age,people knowyou're fat and old.” - Chocolate Waters

35. “If you've been fat, you will always feel and see the world as a fat person; you know how difficult it is... It's the same coming from a working-class background... it never leaves you.” - Caitlin Moran