Richard Simmons Quotes

My eating habits are the only behaviour of mine that are still manic. I can't walk by a restaurant, a bakery, an ice-cream store or a candy store without making a purchase; the amount of calories I take in today are at least five times as many as I took before starting on all of this medication.

I was a food junkie.

I wasn't passionate about food until I'd been cooking for a while. I started long before food became part of the mainstream media. I just wanted to cook, period.

I have a horrible sweet tooth. It's gotten to the point where if I throw a cookie in the garbage, I have to douse it in Cascade. Otherwise, why wouldn't I take it out and eat it?

At one of my lowest points, sugar had a painful grip on me. I'd buy/binge and then beat myself up over my behavior.

I like food way too much to not eat.

I learned at a young age what chasing flavors meant, and I've been doing that my whole life.

If you tell me I can't eat something, I'll obsess over it and end up overeating!

Ever since I was little, I loved to eat. I started eating when I wasn't hungry. My weight has always been up and down.

From the time I was thirteen, there was a constant struggle between MGM and me - whether or not to eat, how much to eat, what to eat. I remember this more vividly than anything else about my childhood.

Is it OK to admit to being slightly obsessed with the TV programme 'Great British Menu?'

I am a hardcore foodie, which means I love to eat. I was also born with cerebral palsy, which means I shake all the time - so cooking is not my thing, as I am banned from being around knives and fire. Those who cannot cook, watch, and I am obsessed with cooking shows.

Food is my drug of choice.

It's literally, if I'm not working out, I eat the whole time I'm not working out. It's exhausting. You have to force-feed. You have to force yourself to eat food.

I've always wanted a straight-up cooking show since I was a child.

Extra weight - whether it's physical, emotional, or spiritual - holds us back from our health and our potential. Overeating is a behavior caused by stress, depression, excitement, fun with friends, self-sabotage, and countless other feelings, emotions, and circumstances. There can always be an occasion to eat and overeat.

I'm naturally greedy and would end up the size of a house if I ate all I wanted all of the time.

I think cooking should be an experience, not a chore.

It's taken me three years to learn that just because I work in the food industry, it doesn't mean that I have to eat every minute of every day.

Being a true foodie, I love visiting new food joints as well as treating my taste buds to pyaaz ki kachori and ghewar.

I like to eat a whole lot. I have an inner chubby girl, and her name is Mabel, and I feed Mabel a lot. I give her what she wants. If Mabel wants a honey bun, she gets it. If Mabel wants Krispy Kreme, she gets it. If Mabel wants fried chicken or ham hocks, she gets what she wants.

I probably get in, like, five meals a day; every now and then, I get six.

I was greedy and ate in that unselfconscious way teenagers do, constantly grazing and eating when I wasn't hungry.

I grew up in Lucknow, which is famous for its street food and kebabs. It was the street food and Lucknowi kebabs that inspired me. The culture of the varieties of food that I tasted as a child inspired me to be a cook.