A diet refers to the specific foods and beverages that a person consumes on a regular basis in order to maintain healthy body weight, meet nutritional needs, and achieve specific health or wellness goals. A person’s diet may be influenced by a variety of factors, such as personal preferences, cultural traditions, medical conditions, and environmental considerations. There are many different types of diets, ranging from vegetarian or vegan diets to low-carbohydrate or high-protein diets, and each may have different benefits or drawbacks depending on an individual’s needs and lifestyle. Some people may also follow a specific diet for religious or ethical reasons. A healthy and balanced diet typically includes a variety of whole foods, such as fruits, vegetables, whole grains, lean proteins, and healthy fats, and limits processed foods, added sugars, and unhealthy fats.
Diet Quotes
1. “The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not.”
— Mark Twain
2. “Your diet is a bank account. Good food choices are good investments.”
— Bethenny Frankel
3. “I don’t stop eating when I’m full. The meal isn’t over when I’m full. It’s over when I hate myself.”
— Louis C. K.
4. “No disease that can be treated by diet should be treated with any other means.”
— Maimonides
5. “I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.”
— Mae West
6. “My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.”
— Orson Welles
7. “In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.”
— Benjamin Franklin
8. “The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.”
— Gustave Flaubert
9. “A friend doesn’t go on a diet because you are fat.”
— Erma Bombeck
10. “I’ve been on a diet for two weeks and all I’ve lost is two weeks.”
— Totie Fields
11. “I think of dieting, then I eat pizza. Lara Stone Leave the table while you still feel you could eat a little more.”
— Helena Rubinstein
12. “Diets, like clothes, should be tailored to you.”
— Joan Rivers
13. “I never diet. I smoke. I drink now and then. I never work out.”
— Naomi Campbell
14. “So, when it comes to eating healthy, it’s just doing the right thing. And it’s not something you have to do 365 days a year, but I think it’s something you have to do 25 days a month. Let’s put it that way.”
— Mike Ditka
15. “I never count calories, but I eat so well.”
— Alicia Silverstone
16. “Want to learn to eat a lot? Here it is: Eat a little. That way, you will be around long enough to eat a lot.”
— Tony Robbins
17. “High-quality food is better for your health.”
— Michael Pollan
18. “I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on.”
— Jean Kerr
19. “I travel 330 days a year and eat every two and a half hours – I’m a big guy. I always carry a fork, little bottles of spices, and Sriracha. I eat what I feel like eating.”
— Robert Irvine
20. “Adopting a new healthier lifestyle can involve changing diet to include more fresh fruit and vegetables as well as increasing levels of exercise.”
— Linford Christie
21. “Once you lose weight, you’re really anxious to eat healthy.”
— Etta James
22. “I drink Diet Coke from the minute I get up to the minute I go to bed.”
— Karl Lagerfeld
23. “When we win, I’m so happy I eat a lot. When we lose, I’m so depressed, I eat a lot. When we’re rained out, I’m so disappointed I eat a lot.”
— Tommy Lasorda
24. “You don’t want to make a steady diet of just lettuce. You don’t want to make a steady diet of fried chicken.”
— Paula Deen
25. “The best way to lose weight is to close your mouth – something very difficult for a politician. Or watch your food – just watch it, don’t eat it.”
— Ed Koch
27. “I like having my hair and face done, but I’m not going to lose weight because someone tells me to. I make music to be a musician not to be on the cover of Playboy.”
— Adele
28. “I find it almost comforting to count calories, because it makes me conscious of what I’m eating. But on Super Bowl Sunday, I thought, ‘Surrender to it. It’s nacho time.’ Then I ate nothing but Doritos all day.”
— Kristen Bell
29. “The easiest diet is, you know, eat vegetables, eat fresh food. Just a really sensible healthy diet like you read about all the time.”
— Drew Carey
30. “As for those grapefruit and buttermilk diets, I’ll take roast chicken and dumplings.”
— Hattie McDaniel
31. “After trying Atkins and doing Nutrisystem a few times, now I’m just focused on maintaining a healthy lifestyle rather than dieting.”
— Miranda Lambert
32. “Don’t compare yourself with someone else’s version of happy or thin. Accepting yourself burns the most calories.”
— Caroline Rhea
33. “A systemic cleansing and detox is definitely the way to go after each holiday. It is the key to fighting high blood pressure, heart disease, cancer, and other health-related illnesses.”
— Lee Haney
34. “I followed the same diet for 20 years, eliminating starches, living on salads, lean meat, and small portions.”
— Gene Tierney
35. “This is what people don’t understand: obesity is a symptom of poverty. It’s not a lifestyle choice where people are just eating and not exercising. It’s because kids – and this is the problem with school lunch right now – are getting sugar, fat, empty calories – lots of calories – but no nutrition.”
— Tom Colicchio
36. “We never repent of having eaten too little.”
— Thomas Jefferson
37. “Nothing burns more calories than dancing in 5-inch heels… try it!”
— Ariana Grande
38. “Calories from protein affect your brain, your appetite control center, so you are more satiated and satisfied.”
— Mark Hyman
39. “Every single diet I ever fell off of was because of potatoes and gravy of some sort.”
— Dolly Parton
40. “Pasta doesn’t make you fat. How much pasta you eat makes you fat.”
— Giada De Laurentiis
41. “I don’t go long without eating. I never starve myself: I grab a healthy snack.”
— Vanessa Hudgens
42. “You feel better when you’re eating food that retains nutritional value.”
— Amber Heard
43. “The only way you get that fat off is to eat less and exercise more.”
— Jack LaLanne
44. “I’m lucky, I don’t like sweets, not even chocolate.”
— Eva Herzigova
45. “I told my doctor I get very tired when I go on a diet, so he gave me pep pills. Know what happened? I ate faster.”
— Joe E. Lewis
46. “What’s the two things they tell you are healthiest to eat? Chicken and fish. You know what you should do? Combine them, eat a penguin.”
— Dave Attell
47. “Such lifestyle factors such as cigarette smoking, excessive alcohol consumption, little physical activity and low dietary calcium intake are risk factors for osteoporosis as well as for many other non-communicable diseases.”
— Gro Harlem Brundtland
48. “I love healthy stuff and junk an equal amount. Whatever I’m craving, I go for it. I’m never trying to lose weight – or gain it. I’m just being.”
— Kelly Clarkson
49. “The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you’re off it.”
— Jackie Gleason
50. “And let’s be clear: It’s not enough just to limit ads for foods that aren’t healthy. It’s also going to be critical to increase marketing for foods that are healthy.”
— Michelle Obama
51. “The circuit training program along with a healthy clean diet is the way to excellent results.”
— Lee Haney
52. “People who shop in health food stores never look healthy.”
— Amy Sedaris
53. “It’s one thing to lose weight, but it’s another thing to eat healthy.”
— Jennifer Hudson
54. “Do you know how many calories are in butter and cheese and ice cream? Would you get your dog up in the morning for a cup of coffee and a donut?”
— Jack LaLanne
55. “What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.”
— Alexander Pope
57. “I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.”
— John Mortimer
58. “People have got to learn: if they don’t have cookies in the cookie jar, they can’t eat cookies.”
— Suze Orman
59. “I have been dairy free for several years, and I started because I felt it was going to reduce my allergies, which it did, and help me lose weight, which it did.”
— Fran Drescher
60. “If I like myself at this weight, then this is what I’m going to be. I don’t have an eating disorder.”
— Courteney Cox
61. “Look I eat really well and I work out, but I also indulge when I want to. I don’t starve myself in an extremist way. You’re not taking away my coffee or my dairy or my glass of wine because I’d be devastated.”
— Jennifer Aniston