65 Inspiring Diet Quotes

In the journey towards a healthier lifestyle, staying motivated can sometimes be a challenge. Whether you're just starting out or you've been dedicated to your diet for years, everyone can use a little boost now and then. That's where words of wisdom come in handy. We've compiled an inspiring collection of the top 65 diet quotes to help you stay focused and energized on your path to wellness. Each quote is designed to remind you of the importance of perseverance, the beauty of progress, and the joy that comes from living a healthier life. So, take a moment to read through these motivating thoughts and let them fuel your commitment to achieving your dietary goals.

1. “I am a better person when I have less on my plate.” - Elizabeth Gilbert

2. “Just think of all those women on the Titanic who said, 'No thank you' to desert that night. And for what?!” - Erma Bombeck

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

4. “Inspiration is external and motivation is internal. It is up to me to provide the switch and you to flip it on!” - Tricia Cunningham

5. “Food is an important part of a balanced diet.” - Fran Lebowitz

6. “I was glad to be made awarethat “Veimke” (jeune fille au pair),is subject to natural law,and can be made fat,by such things as poor diet,and alcohol.” - Roman Payne

7. “Kenyataanya ilmu diet barat menciptakan masalah-masalah yang jauh lebih banyak daripada memecahkannya” - Masanobu Fukuoka

8. “It is easier to change a man's religion than to change his diet.” - Margaret Mead

9. “If I don't eat junk, I don't gain weight.” - Paula Christensen

10. “Well, what did you have for lunch?” I snapped. “Surely that’s not top secret superhero information.” “Steak with mashed potatoes and a side salad,” Striker replied. “And a piece of chocolate cheesecake for dessert.” I gave up on conversation after that. I was too jealous of the cheesecake to continue.” - Jennifer Estep

11. “[T]he salient question is whether the increasing awareness of [heart] disease beginning in the 1920s coincided with the budding of an epidemic or simply better technology for diagnosis.” - Gary Taubes

12. “True discipline is really just self-remembering; no forcing or fighting is necessary.” - Charles Eisenstein

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

14. “The fridge had been emptied of all Dudley’s favorite things — fizzy drinks and cakes, chocolate bars and burgers — and filled instead with fruit and vegetables and the sorts of things that Uncle Vernon called “rabbit food.” - J.K. Rowling

15. “Appetite has really become an artificial and abnormal thing, having taken the place of true hunger, which alone is natural. The one is a sign of bondage but the other, of freedom.” - Paul Brunton

16. “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

17. “You don't have to be emaciated or vomiting to be suffering. All people who live their lives on a diet are suffering.” - Portia De Rossi

18. “I hate France. It's like the whole country's on a diet” - Gordon Korman

19. “Adult obesity and overweight statistics have increased by about 50 percent since the Dietary Goals were announced. [by the federal government, in 1977] That bears repeating: a 50 percent increase in obesity/overweight correlated with a 10 percent decrease in fat content in the diet.” - Larry McCleary MD

20. “Any food that requires enhancing by the use of chemical substances should in no way be considered a food.” - John H. Tobe

21. “I don't want to wake up dead tommorrow and realize I didn't even try.Luck my ass! Luck is just another word for hard work and an open mind.” - Ryan E. Day

22. “The popular media and conventional wisdom, including the medical profession's traditional approach to nutrition, have created and continue to perpetuate this problem through inadequate, outdated dietary counseling. Attempts to universalize dietary therapies so that one-diet-fits-all influences the flawed claims against meats and fats, thereby encouraging overconsumption of grains. Government-sponsored guides to healthy eating, such as the USDA's food pyramid, which advocates six to eleven servings of grains daily for everyone, lag far behind current research and continue to preach dangerously old-fashioned ideas. Because the USDA's function is largely the promotion of agriculture and agricultural products, there is a clear conflict of interest inherent in any USDA claim of healthful benefits arising from any agricultural product. Popular beliefs and politically motivated promotion, not science, continue to dictate dietary recommendations, leading to debilitating and deadly diseases that are wholly or partly preventable.” - Ron Hoggan

23. “CHOW^TM contained spun, plaited, and woven protein molecules, capped and coded, carefully designed to be ignored by even the most ravenous digestive tract enzymes; no-cal sweeteners; mineral oils replacing vegetable oils; fibrous materials, colorings, and flavorings. The end result was a foodstuff almost indistinguishable from any other except for two things. Firstly, the price, which was slightly higher, and secondly, the nutritional content, which was roughly equivalent to that of a Sony Walkman.” - Neil Gaiman

24. “No disease that can be treated by diet should be treated with any other means.” - Moses Maimonides

25. “I am ready. I have repented my sins and soon I will be in heaven with Christ my savior. Now I must die like a man.” - Charles Portis

26. “Weight and body oppression is oppressive to everyone. When you live in a society that says that one kind of body is bad and and other is good, those with “good” bodies constantly fear that their bodies will go “bad”, and those with “bad” bodies are expected feel shame and do everything they can to have “good” bodies. In the process, we torture our bodies, and do everything from engage in disordered eating to invasive surgery to make ourselves okay. Nobody wins in this kind of struggle.” - Golda Poretsky

27. “Having beef with someone is unnecessary and avoidable. Whatever the issue, if not positive, it is an opportunity to cut the excess fat from an unhealthy dietary network. Simply excuse yourself from the table of negativity and lean forward in peace.” - T.F. Hodge

28. “I never touch sugar, cheese, bread... I only like what I'm allowed to like. I'm beyond temptation. There is no weakness. When I see tons of food in the studio, for us and for everybody, for me it's as if this stuff was made out of plastic. The idea doesn't even enter my mind that a human being could put that into their mouth. I'm like the animals in the forest. They don't touch what they cannot eat.” - Karl Lagerfeld

29. “The road to health is paved with good intestines!” - Sherry A. Rogers

30. “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

31. “We should not be surprised that more and more people feel comfortable about consuming animal products. After all, they are being assured by the “experts” that suffering is being decreased and they can buy “happy” meat, “free-range” eggs, etc.. These products even come with labels approved of by animal organizations. The animal welfare movement is actually encouraging the “compassionate” consumption of animal products.Animal welfare reforms do very little to increase the protection given to animal interests because of the economics involved: animals are property. They are things that have no intrinsic or moral value. This means that welfare standards, whether for animals used as foods, in experiments, or for any other purpose, will be low and linked to the level of welfare needed to exploit the animal in an economically efficient way for the particular purpose. Put simply, we generally protect animal interests only to the extent we get an economic benefit from doing so. The concept of “unnecessary” suffering is understood as that level of suffering that will frustrate the particular use. And that can be a great deal of suffering.Killing Animals and Making Animals Suffer | Animal Rights: The Abolitionist Approach” - Gary L. Francione

32. “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

33. “Kennedy's issue didn't seem to be that she had been in jail, but that she had put on weight in jail. The food had been crappy, she'd told me, and it has been high on the carbohydrate count. "But I'm an emotional eater," she'd said, as if that were a terrible thing. "And I was real emotional in jail.” - Charlaine Harris

34. “Juliet shook her head. The thought of eating anything made her feel nauseous. "No thanks, I'm not hungry.""Oh yeah, the heartbreak diet," nodded Trudy sagely. "Been there, done that, bought the T-shirt.” - Alexandra Potter

35. “People tend to be generous when sharing their nonsense, fear, and ignorance. And while they seem quite eager to feed you their negativity, please remember that sometimes the diet we need to be on is a spiritual and emotional one. Be cautious with what you feed your mind and soul. Fuel yourself with positivity and let that fuel propel you into positive action.” - Steve Maraboli

36. “A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, but an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women’s history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one.” - Naomi Wolf

37. “The slightest nudge can send a fruit pyramid collapsing into ruin. Perhaps this is why there is so little ancient architecture and art left in the world. Perhaps ancient fat people bumped into buildings and statues and made them fall. Perhaps this is the real reason Rome fell” - Becky Siame

38. “What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.” - George Dennison Prentice

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

40. “A dark-chocolate truffle melts in my mouth, and I forget about everything else ... even the fact that I'm on a diet.” - Barbara Brooke

41. “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

42. “We... Charlotta the Fourth and I... live in defiance of every known law of diet." ~ Miss Lavendar, chap 27” - L.M. Montgomery

43. “I'm a food addict. I've tried everything- Weight Watchers, The South Beach, raw food, Atkins, low-fat diets. Nothing works for me." I looked at him and said, "Have you tried suffering?" He laughed out loud, as if I was joking. I wasn't joking.” - Dr. Frederick Woolverton

44. “I’ve been on a diet for two weeks and all I’ve lost is two weeks!”-Totie Fields-” - David DeBacco

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

46. “In more ancient times the life was simpler, but now the discovery of all these different medicines for curing dyspepsia shows that people are suffering from this disease. In this country we know that there are so many kinds of pills and medicines used. We even have those in India now. These things show that not only in America but in all the countries of the world we have to recourse to artificial means for necessary nutrients because people are not aware of right rules of diet. It is better to follow the right rules of diet in the beginning in order to avoid any kind of artificial medicines later on.” - Virchand Raghavji Gandhi

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

48. “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

49. “A thin man can squeeze into a fat body, yet you can only squeeze a fat man to become thin” - Benny Bellamacina

50. “It is not as if farming brought a great improvement in living standards either. A typical hunter-gatherer enjoyed a more varied diet and consumed more protein and calories than settled people, and took in five times as much viatmin C as the average person today.” - Bill Bryson

51. “Part of the reason people could eat so well was that many foods that we now think of as delicacies were plenteous then. Lobsters bred in such abundance around Britain's coastline that they were fed to prisoners and orphans or ground up for fertilizer.” - Bill Bryson

52. “Even if these researchers do see the need to address the problem immediately, though they have obligations and legitimate interests elsewhere, including being funded for other research. With luck, the ideas discussed in Good Calories, Bad Calories may be rigorously tested in the next twenty years. If confirmed, it will be another decade or so after that, at least, before our public health authorities actively change their official explanation for why we get fat, how that leads to illness, and what we have to do to avoid or reverse those fates. As I was told by a professor of nutrition at New York University after on of my lectures, the kind of change I'm advocating could take a lifetime to be accepted.” - Gary Taubes

53. “So why is a third of our world battling obesity and spending huge sums to burn off excess calories, while the other two-thirds yearn to get more of them?” - Wess Stafford

54. “Stop and reflect on what your diet is doing for you.” - Alice McCall

55. “Perhaps it is a testament to the power of modern marketing savvy that an obese man with heart disease and high blood pressure became one of the richest snake oil salesmen ever to live, selling a diet that promises to help you lose weight, to keep your heart healthy and to normalize your blood pressure.” - T. Colin Campbell

56. “Switching to all organic food production is the single most critical (and most doable) action we can take right now to stop our climate crisis.” - Maria Rodale

57. “I'm going to be fit and slim and beautiful. I'm going on a diet as of today.""Why? You've always said that looks don't matter and women only diet for men and life is obsessed with the superificial.""Yes, I know, but then I thought, hey wouldn't it be fun to be sexy?” - Melissa Nathan

58. “Positive energy is your priceless life force. Protect it. Don't allow people to draw from your reserves; select friends who recharge your energies . . . I'm not asking you to cut people out of your life, but I am asking you to invest your time with people who will push you to be your best. Winners love to see other people win.” - Chalene Johnson

59. “Advising the average person to not concern herself with calories but instead to pay attention to hunger triggers and eating foods rick in nutrients--well, it's a wonderful concept. I also love the thought of unicorns jumping over cotton candy rainbows. I'm even considering taking up basketball to see if it makes me taller. Come on already! Suggesting that someone who struggles with his weight does not need to think about calories is as risky as suggesting you not look at price tags the next time you're in the market for a car.” - Chalene Johnson

60. “Successful people do what others know they should do but will not. To become a success, or just be *more* successful, you will do what average, less-motivated people will not.” - Chalene Johnson

61. “Treat yourself like a fat person with aches and pains and a suitcase full of excuses, and good luck--you'll stay exactly where you are. Train like an athlete and, though you may not look like one now, you will become one.” - Chalene Johnson

62. “The physical vanity of the diet-and-exercise obsessive is recast as the pursuit of a kind of ritual purity, hedged about with taboos and guilt trips and mysticized by yoga.” - Ross Douthat

63. “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

64. “If the weight comes from bacon you can so deduct it off the scale total to get your true weight. #science” - Michelle M. Pillow

65. “Tyson dropped the two warriors he was about to tie into a knot and jogged after us. He jumped on the centaur's back. 'Dude!' the centaur groaned, almost buckling under Tyson's weight. 'Do the words "low-carb diet" mean anything to you?” - Rick Riordan