Quotes

Here are some of the quotes I am seeing on the Weight Watchers message boards -- some are funny, some hit home, and some are just strange.

Face your stuff, don't stuff your face.

You can't change what's already happened, but you are in control of what happens next.

A diamond is a chunk of coal that is made good under pressure.

'We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.' – Aristotle

I'm almost there and the light at the end of the tunnel is getting brighter.

I’m taking this one meal at a time.

WW is not a sprint, but a marathon.

When I buy cookies I eat just four and throw the rest away. But first I spray them with Raid so I won't dig them out of the garbage later. Be careful, though, because that Raid really doesn't taste that bad. ~Janette Barber

I am a work in progress. It is more stressful for me to continue being fat than to stop overeating.

Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth.

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

If I don't take care of my body, where will I live?

Looking ahead is a step forward, looking behind turns you around to where you were.

If you want to lose weight in order to change your life, you might first consider that you need to change your life in order to lose weight.

Discipline is the bridge between Goals and Accomplishments.

Nothing tastes as good as thin feels.

Unfortunately lots of food tastes better than being thin feels, that's how we all got here, but now we have to learn to make the right choices...

Do what you always did and get what you always got.

Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort even the difficult may become easy. - Bill Blackman

This time I want to lose weight to FEEL good, not just LOOK good.

"Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all." -- Sam Ewing

If the spotlight was shining on you, what would we see?

If it is to be, it is up to me.

It is never too late to be what you might have become.

"Everyone who got where he is has had to begin where he was." – Robert Louis Stevenson

If nothing changes...then nothing changes.

The highway to success is always under construction. There will potholes, detours, hills and valleys. As long as you stay on the highway. You'll get to where you are going.

Don't let today's lapse ruin tomorrow's goal.

Weight loss isn’t about who won the race. It's not about who gets there first, it's about who gets there and can maintain.

You don't have to do this forever. You just have to do it for today, everyday. - Kim Bensen~

'I have learned the secret of living in every situation, whether it is with a full stomach or empty, with plenty or little. For I can do everything with the help of Christ who gives me the strength I need.' Phil 4:12-13

You have to let go of who you thought you were to discover who you really are.

"It's not who you think you are that holds you back. It's who you think you're not.

Be committed, not just interested in losing weight, and it will work.

You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

The easiest thing to sell someone is a lie they want to believe.

Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass. It's about learning to dance in the rain.

Do, or do not.....there is no 'try'. (Yoda)

It's not how long it takes to lose the weight, but how long you keep it off.

A gain is feedback, not failure.

This is what I say to myself when I approach a buffet table--"Just keep swimming! Just keep swimming!"-Dory, Finding Nemo

There will always be another cheese ball.

What you eat in private shows in public.

You never fail unless you give up.

Change will not occur until the pain of not changing exceeds the pain of changing.

Progress…NOT perfection.

Shoot for the moon, even if you miss you will land amongst the stars.

Life is about choices, good and bad. Learn from both.

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

Don't let today's lapse ruin tomorrow's goal.

Prior Planning Prevents Poor Performance!

If I fail to plan, I plan to fail.

Journal it. Wipe your hands of it. And remember what Scarlett O'Hara said, "After all... tomorrow is another day."

Inside every obese person is a thinner person wondering: What the heck happened?

If hunger isn't the problem, food isn't the solution.

Your body keeps an accurate journal regardless of what you write down...

Rather than aiming for being perfect, just aim to be a little better today than you were yesterday.

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

You cannot change what's over, but only where you go.

My Goal is to be 'Results Not Typical'

What's the worst that can happen? If you can live with that, take the chance.

Being overweight is hard.
Losing weight is hard.
Pick the hard you want to live with.

The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think.

If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?

Keep trying, no one ever said it was going to be easy, only worth it.

Live your dreams....EXCEPT for the one where you’re naked in church.