Michael Winner Quotes

People think that you can save calories by eating fewer meals a day, but it works just the opposite: the fewer meals you eat, the more counterproductive it becomes to you being able to lose weight.

And anyway, the first three letters in the word diet should tell you what I want it to do.

When a man diets, he eats oatmeal in addition to everything else he usually eats.

At one point I had to shove as much food in my body as possible to pack on calories. My trainer wanted me to do six meals a day and not go two hours without eating. If I would cheat on eating one day, I could tell - I'd drop a few pounds.

Be careful about what you eat because otherwise you get fat! Do you like to be fat? Eat very, very, very little things. Almost starve, but I don't starve, because I eat very much.

I think all diets are kind of weird. The word 'die' is in it.

One of the key things I did to stay on my diet is I never allowed myself to get hungry. As soon as I got hungry, I'd eat healthy foods.

Once you have to start counting calories, it takes away from the joy of eating.

If you continually diet, you are putting your body in a quasi-famine situation. It slows your metabolism down and breaks the thermostat. Diets don't work. They don't help you understand why you're eating more than your body wanted in the first place.

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.

I don't believe in diets. I don't believe any diet ever works.

I do a very strict diet.

I've never been on a diet and never will.

I don't believe in dieting. But I don't eat rice at all.

I follow a very strict diet.

I was really obsessed with dieting.

On this twelfth day of my diet I would rather die satiated than slim.

The best way to lose weight is to put the handle of the fridge two inches from the ground.

There were reports of me using fat-sucking machines and all sorts of silliness. All I did was walk a lot and breast-feed. I've never been on a strict diet. I just don't overeat, and I don't eat if I'm not hungry.

Weight is just not a hot button. In fact, during my life, it probably should have been on my radar screen a bit more. I look back at work photos and am shocked. Was I eating the people I was interviewing?! Good Lord, I was big.

I hate dieting. Let's just say that.

I did every diet: Atkins. Cabbage-soup diet. Dean Ornish. But I couldn't live the rest of my life like a rabbit.

It's smarter to look at portions than to count calories.

It's so much easier just to eat and work out than not eat and work out like crazy.

If I have to get into a bikini, then I eat carrot sticks for three days.