16 Quotes by Scott Abel

You can't sculpt a pebble.

Can we talk real for a minute then? Do you "really" think that your problem is that you just need to gather more information and data before you start to "do" better with your commitment to yourself? Or isn't the real truth more like -> you are already educated with enough information - beyond your level of behavioral obedience to what you already know! You don't need to "know more" to get going- you simply need to buckle down and get real about "doing better" with what you already know.

You stop accepting yourself and stop connecting three realms of the triangle of awareness within you. You fail to realize that this is mistaken notion that "a lighter you is a happier you" isn't making you happier at all.

The hormonal and metabolic environment of the body within which calories enter determines how your body deals with those calories.

The message of the diet-industry is that you can’t possibly be spiritually and personally fulfilled unless you are leaner and lighter.

The cycle of deprivation, indulgence, further deprivation and so on illustrates how all overly restrictive diets fail us.

Think about it. The industry generates billions of dollars of profit and revenue each year. They do so by selling answers. But if they had the answers, then these so-called answers would just be copied and pasted and handed out, and the industry itself would crumble.

The act of starving yourself only guarantees a ravenous appetite.

Dietary fat was singled out as the most villainous culprit responsible for weight gain and declining health. The food industry adjusted by replacing saturated animal fats with “heart healthy,” super-processed vegetable seed oils, and high fructose corn syrup. Soon, our average body weight started to rise, and it did so quickly.