Tony McCoy Quotes

My weight has fluctuated my whole life, and because I've been on television since I was 11 years old, everyone has seen it.

It was between the ages of 14 and 20 and I started off not eating at all, maybe an apple a day.

I gained weight, and that started a 32-year struggle with weight and exercise and body image problems.

I have flabby thighs, but fortunately my stomach covers them.

I am not naturally that thin, so I had to go through everything from using drugs to diet pills to laxatives to fasting. Those were my main ways of controlling my weight.

I'm no stranger to weight issues. I've had cellulite since I was about nine years old. I have enjoyed the uber support of Spanx many times.

When women are stressed, they either eat too much and get fat, or they eat not so much and get thin, and the latter is what happens to me.

I have obsessed about my weight in some sort of way all my life. I used to write in my journal what I weighed every day.

When you struggle with weight, it's not an internal struggle... it's literally an external struggle, and everyone sees it.

I dieted all the time in the Sixties, but we had no idea what dieting meant - we thought it meant not eating anything.

You go to a show, and there's no food at all, so if you're doing shows back to back, you can forget eating. I remember standing up in the bath one day, and there was a mirror in front of me, and I was so thin! I hated it. I never liked being that skinny.

I've long struggled with my body image and have worked hard to achieve a healthy weight.

My weight has been one of the most challenging things that I've had to deal with throughout my career.

Food is a fairly significant aspect of my life. I have struggled mightily with food. With my weight. And I'm conscious of it. So I have a sensitivity to people who struggle with their weight.

I'm always striving to lose weight. And it's not a matter of wanting to be a size 3 again - I brought out my leotards, and a friend thought they were doll clothes. Being heavy isn't good for you. How long can your heart take the strain? So, I never give up, but it's hard.

Clothes that are too tight make you look bigger. If you've been trying to shed pounds, and it doesn't go, buy the next size up. I never care what size my clothes are.

I've exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.

Like most severely overweight people, I had to hit a rock-hard bottom before I'd take responsibility for the consequences of neglecting my own health.

I was just sick of being fat, you know? You get sick of it. It just really, it's a tiring lifestyle to have.

I was in a weight-cutting sport, in judo, so I had to be a certain weight on a deadline. It kind of pushed me into having a really unhealthy relationship with food in my teens. I felt like if I wasn't exactly on weight, I wasn't good-looking.

I tried being anorexic for four hours, and then I was like, I need some bagels.

Outside every thin woman is a fat man trying to get in.

Growing up, I had an internal struggle with my body because I was really chubby. My sisters were younger, and they were all skinny and all cute. As a teen, I definitely had, like, an extra 30 pounds of weight.

Sure, I'm sensitive about my weight. I don't do fat jokes.

I'm not thin. I don't starve myself.