Crash Dieting Quotes

In some ways it's hard not to be a bit cynical when a friend tells you about their fantastic new diet, because there's a fresh eating fad in the press every day.

If you're totally sedentary and eat 2,500 calories a day, don't instantly go to 1,200 calories and hours of aerobics - your weight loss will be sudden and violent, but also fleeting.

I once ate nothing but grapefruit for an entire month. I didn't lose a pound.

There is no such thing as a healthy cleanse. It's the worst thing you can do for your body.

I don't know if those things work, where you do, like, this crash diet or crash starvation. It's just not something I've ever been into.

I tried a juice cleanse once, and by the third day, I wanted to kill everyone. I honestly don't even think it's healthy. It's not good for you to just drink juice. Like, if you detox for one or two days, fine, but a 10- or 14-day juice cleanse? You have headaches, and I was in the worst moods. I couldn't do it. Starving.

I used to be much heavier when I first started out acting and did a lot of crash dieting and a lot of crash exercise - a ton for a month before you burned out. Then I made a decision in my twenties to only do things that I can do for life, so everything's kind of in moderation for me.

A big mistake people make when they are trying to lose weight is that they stop eating. They'll eat salads once a day and then their body starts trying to protect itself and holds onto the fat.

In my extreme youth I did a terrifying diet - drinking 40 cups of liquid a day.

A crash diet never works. You lose weight one day and add it the next.

The worst diets are ones that restrict your calories too much and try to trick your body. You have no energy, and it's ridiculous.

Disciplined governments do not engage in the economic equivalent of binge eating followed by crash dieting.

Corporations hope that the right concept will turn things around overnight. This is what you might call the crash-diet approach: starve yourself for a few days and you'll be thin for life.

I'm not one of those guys who has to drop ten pounds in the week before a contest.

But if you pick up every other magazine, it is the peanut butter diet, or the cabbage soup diet, and then you go to the radio and you hear that you can drink some solution and you will lose weight overnight. It just does not work that way!