36 Weight Loss Inspiration Quotes

Are you on a journey towards a healthier, happier you? Sometimes, the right words can provide the motivation and encouragement needed to keep moving forward, even on the toughest days. We've gathered a curated collection of the top 36 weight loss inspiration quotes to help you stay focused and inspired. These quotes come from a variety of sources, including fitness experts, celebrities, and anonymous authors, offering diverse perspectives and insights. Whether you're just starting out or need a boost along the way, these powerful words will remind you of your strength and determination. Get ready to be motivated and empowered as you work towards your weight loss goals!

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

2. “No one wakes up in the morning and says, 'I want to gain 150 pounds and I will start right now!” - Tricia Cunningham

3. “Eating crappy food isn't a reward -- it's a punishment.” - Drew Carey

4. “Get Off The Scale!You are beautiful. Your beauty, just like your capacity for life, happiness, and success, is immeasurable. Day after day, countless people across the globe get on a scale in search of validation of beauty and social acceptance.Get off the scale! I have yet to see a scale that can tell you how enchanting your eyes are. I have yet to see a scale that can show you how wonderful your hair looks when the sun shines its glorious rays on it. I have yet to see a scale that can thank you for your compassion, sense of humor, and contagious smile. Get off the scale because I have yet to see one that can admire you for your perseverance when challenged in life.It’s true, the scale can only give you a numerical reflection of your relationship with gravity. That’s it. It cannot measure beauty, talent, purpose, life force, possibility, strength, or love. Don’t give the scale more power than it has earned. Take note of the number, then get off the scale and live your life. You are beautiful!” - Steve Maraboli

5. “She'd even violated the only sensible rule of dieting she'd ever run across, the sage advice of the Muppets' Miss Piggy, who recommended never eating anything bigger than your head.” - Susan Donovan

6. “...the reward centers of the brain--where the pleasure of those high-calorie foods registers--also respond to other substances that bring about pleasure....But those reward centers also respond to other gratifying things, like watching a sunset or experiencing a loving touch...So while you may not be able to change the wiring in your brain, you can "feed" those reward centers other pleasures...Biology isn't destiny when you have effective strategies...” - Bob Greene

7. “Really? If I could hate my trainer? That would be ideal. I'd prefer to despise this person with the fire of ten thousand suns. So when I walk - nay, crawl - out of here at the end of my workouts, I want to lull myself to sleep by picturing my very talented and inspirational trainer getting hit by a bus. A bus that I am driving.” - Jen Lancaster

8. “I looked at him nonplussed. I realized that I have spent so many years being on a diet that the idea that you might actually need calories to survive has been completely wiped out of my consciousness. Have reached point where believe nutritional ideal is to eat nothing at all, and that the only reason people eat is because they are so greedy they cannot stop themselves from breaking out and ruining their diets.” - Helen Fielding

9. “The hCG protocol would revolutionize our culture. Not only because of the mass reduction in obesity, but because when people are able to develop emotional strength and well-being without needing to eat, society would be healthier, happier, and more productive. Eating less, not because we have to, but because we want to.” - Robin Phipps Woodall

10. “That we need help is easy to see every time we walk down the street. The experts confirm what the obscured view in front of us tells us. They estimate that 64% of adults in the United States are obese and that this percentage is growing. Even our children are being affected, as nearly every one in three American children under the age of 18 is overweight.” - Jeff Schweitzer

11. “Associated with this weight gain are increased risks in adulthood for joint problems, angina, high blood pressure, heart attacks, strokes, type 2 diabetes and, ultimately, premature death. Outside of the human costs, health experts estimate that treating adult obesity-related ailments will cost the American economy nearly $150 billion in 2009.” - Jeff Schweitzer

12. “Women get boob jobs to give themselves a certain edge. Frankly, I don't see why they nearly kill themselves trying to diet off their equally bulbous hips.” - Kim Brittingham

13. “Every weight loss program, no matter how positively it’s packaged, whispers to you that you’re not right. You’re not good enough. You’re unacceptable and you need to be fixed.” - Kim Brittingham

14. “We survey lush landscapes with variations not dissimilar to a so-called "imperfect" female body with absolute pleasure -- say, an expanse of Irish countryside with grassy rolling hills. But is it really so much uglier when it's made of flesh instead of soil?” - Kim Brittingham

15. “If I hired one of the stock boys to chase me around the store with a licorice whip, I'd be thin by Christmas.” - Jennette Fulda

16. “When people tell me they can’t afford to join a gym, I tell them to go outside; planet Earth is a gym and we’re already members. Run, climb, sweat, and enjoy all of the natural wonder that is available to you.” - Steve Maraboli

17. “It was after I first began to uplift my thoughts a bit that my cravings for junk food started to dissipate. I did not connect the two at that time. First, I simply noticed that I didn’t need to sleep so much. It took a while before I realized that in addition to my improved energy level, there was a direct correlation between chewing on mental garbage and putting garbage in my mouth.” - Holly Mosier

18. “Then there was the realisation that I didn't actually feel that much better when I was thin(ner). In fact the 'thin' version felt worse because I lived with hunger clawing at my stomach all the time, and in fear that I was going to get fat again. After years of neuroticism I'd finally understood those who loved me would continue to put up with me fat or thin, and those who didn't ignored me. As a middle-aged woman I was pretty much invisible anyway. To pass unnoticed through an image-obsessed society is surprisingly liberating.” - Helen Brown

19. “You have a choice. You can continue eating the foods manufacturers want you to buy that are making you unhealthy. Or you can return to eating the foods God provided for you, already magnificently packaged in their own skins, rinds, pods and shells. Foods that contain all the human-appropriate vitamins and minerals you need, and the right proportion of sugar, fat, salt and calories. Will you listen to God, or will you continue listening to the marketing and advertising gurus whose agenda has nothing to do with your health?Cukierkorn, Rabbi Celso; Collins, Susan Ford (2012-10-11). The Miracle Diet: Lose Weight, Gain Health... 10 Diet Skills (p. 103).” - Celso Cukierkorn

20. “You must see the change you wish to be in the world.” - Robert Jones

21. “What no one really talks about, though, is the main reason many of us fail with our weight loss efforts: our minds won't let us.” - Helen M. Ryan

22. “Weight loss is a sum of all of your habits - not individual ones.” - Helen M. Ryan

23. “Food, like your money, should be working for you!” - Rita Deattrea Beckford M.D.

24. “Self-help isn't really self-help unless someone else is also helping you. We'd like to be that someone.” - Kenneth Schwarz

25. “I finally figured out the big, elusive secret to weight loss. Don't eat! Who knew?” - Richelle E. Goodrich

26. “I'm going on a diet.  (Crud, I know)I am going to be cranky. I am going to be irritable.I am going to be moody and sad and mean. And, yes, I am going to be hungry. Please don't feed me, even if I try to bite you. Please don't tease me, I may hurt you.Please don't try to encourage me, I may growl and snap at you. Please don't help me, I may blame you for everything aggravating in the known universe.  Please don't be offended by my scowl, I cannot smile.  But most importantly, please keep your distance until this trial is over to prevent any unnecessary casualties. Thank you for your understanding. ” - Richelle E. Goodrich

27. “Weight loss is not the key to your dreams. The truth is there is no lock and the door is flimsy.” - Golda Poretsky

28. “Enjoy losing weight. Enjoy eating healthy, delicious food. Do not wait until you reach your destination to feel good. Take as much happiness and joy as you can from your weight loss journey.” - Harry Papas

29. “Stop wasting so much energy hating your body; it makes you weaker. Everything good in your life begins from the moment you begin accepting, understanding, respecting, and loving your true self.” - Harry Papas

30. “If you find you require willpower, you aren't ready to lose weight.” - Augusten Burroughs

31. “I recently read that 99% of dieters fail to maintain their weight loss and, given my past experience, that statistic feels true to me!” - Celso Cukierkorn

32. “Three Miracles of weight loss and health gainFirst, you were given a constantly-renewing body. Second, all the foods you need have been provided. And third, you have a brain that is operating to coordinate your body and life according to your instructions.” - Celso Cukierkorn

33. “Remember, you are not a heavy person trying to slim down. You are a trim, healthy person learning how to reemerge.” - Celso Cukierkorn

34. “Fat cells have memories. They want to go back to their old size. But new muscles have memories too and, once you have created muscles, they work hard to hold your new shape. You are always on a diet. The only question is, a diet for what? Health or obesity? Longevity or illness?” - Celso Cukierkorn

35. “I'd like to lose enough weight so that my bones creaked louder than the floor” - Stanley Victor Paskavich

36. “I have heard one doctor call high-protein, high-fat, low-carbohydrate diets “make-yourself-sick” diets, and I think that’s an appropriate moniker. You can also lose weight by undergoing chemotherapy or starting a heroin addiction, but I wouldn’t recommend those, either.” - T. Colin Campbell