#weight

I was gaining weight very rapidly and read about the idea of restricting carbohydrates as an alternative to going hungry. I had a big appetite, so that was the only thing I would even consider. ↗

— Robert Atkins

#alternative #appetite #big #carbohydrates #consider

If you look at body fat, it seems to increase with age, even though your weight does not. That's a physiological fact of aging, they say. Heck it is. It is an adaptive effect of aging. ↗

— Kenneth H. Cooper

#age #aging #body #body fat #does

Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose. ↗

— Walter Savage Landor

#certain #deal #great #great deal #hand

Men are allowed to age. Men are allowed to gain weight. Men are allowed to be quirky looking. ↗

— Janeane Garofalo

#allowed #gain #gain weight #looking #men

For 'X-Men' I was lifting a lot of weights. I actually lost a lot of mass when I quit "X-Men" because I was working out so much and very muscular and strong. ↗

— Jennifer Lawrence

#because #i #i quit #lifting #lost

I can honestly say this industry hasn't made me neurotic about my looks, except maybe my weight. I hope my clothes kind of reflect that. They're meant to make you feel good. ↗

— Stella McCartney

#clothes #except #feel #feel good #good

Lighter computers and lighter sensors would let you have more function in a given weight, which is very important if you are launching things into space, and you have to pay by the pound to put things there. ↗

— Ralph Merkle

#function #given #important #into #launching

People say their weight is genetic. But it turns out that people who are overweight don't just have overweight kids. They also have overweight pets. That's not genetic. ↗

— Mehmet Oz

#genetic #just #kids #out #overweight

Why are empirical questions about how the mind works so weighted down with political and moral and emotional baggage? ↗

— Steven Pinker

#baggage #down #emotional #empirical #how

Weight doesn't matter as long as you're happy with yourself. ↗

— Billie Piper

#long #matter #weight #you #yourself