321 Quotes About Weight

I don't see the world as fat and thin. Gravity just likes some more than others.

There were a great many people in my own life who saw my body before they ever saw or considered me.

Do not carry the burden of self-judgment. You are forgiven and pardoned

I did this for you, you know, she always tells him.Did you? he wants to say.Because he doesn't remember ever asking for kumquats or hybrid cardio machines, but who knows? Maybe all this time, all the little ways he looked at her and didn't look at her, all the things he said or didn't say or didn't say enough added up to this awful request without his knowledge or consent, like those ransom notes made from letters cut from different magazines.

She gave me the dog-eye and moved slightly back. “Are you concerned about your weight, Fat Jimmy?” I took a long drag on my cigarette. “Not at all. My doctor says I’ve got another two stone to go before I’m morbidly obese.”Fat Jimmy from "Fat Jimmy and the Blind Ballerina" due out Jan 2017

They'd pay attention to me less. They'd judge me by gender, by looks, by weight before anything else. I automatically started every interaction at a disadvantage.

Despite the fact that life has repeatedly reinforced my conviction that the tomb was empty, some of my most profound errors have occurred when I was straining under the weight of a death that was in reality the liberation of a transition.

I’ve got some athletes who do best on 70% carbs, 20% protein, 10% fat. But they deserve their carbohydrates. They’ve got a great pancreas, they’re in- sulin-sensitive, blah, blah, blah, they’ve got a lot of muscle mass. But some athletes, they’re allowed 10 licks of a dried prune every 6 months. That’s all they deserve and that’s all they’ll get. And after 6 months, they’re actually al- lowed to look at calendar pictures of cakes once a week.

If when you think of yourself, you think only of your physical body –even if you are physically fit and firm, at your ideal weight with beautiful hair, eyes or lips- if that is how you gauge your success, you are mistaken