Weight Loss Quotes
And Fitness Sayings

Weight loss quotes and sayings about fitness to boost your motivation to lose weight, and ultimately, your success in your exercise and diet efforts.

If you find yourself having trouble sticking to your diet or fitness routine, use these quotes to juice things up.

Remember, of course, that if you find yourself in a rut, take action. Taking action is a great way to change your state since it creates chemical changes in your body.

Your likelihood of taking action is often directly related to your level of motivation. So, keep your favorite quotes handy and break them out to get yourself moving.

You'll be more motivated by quotes and sayings that resonate with you in some way, so choose the ones that are most relevant, but also impact you emotionally.

When in doubt, just take some action...

"The whole idea of motivation is a trap. Forget motivation. Just do it. Exercise, lose weight, test your blood sugar, or whatever. Do it without motivation. And then, guess what? After you start doing the thing, that's when the motivation comes and makes it easy for you to keep on doing it."
-John C. Maxwell

Weight loss quotes by topic:

Build muscle - lose fat
Reduce calories
Meat eaters
Anthony Robbins
Funny quotes
More quotes
Weight loss affirmations

Build More Muscle And Lose Fat

Want to lose fat? Build more muscle!

Denise calls this a "secret, magic weight-loss trick." Of course, it's not a secret, and there's no real magic to it. It's just the way the body works.

If you can add just five pounds of muscle, yes, I'm suggesting you should gain weight, you'll be burning anywhere from 175 to 250 additional calories per day! Automatically!

As you might imagine, weight loss quotes from Denise are plentiful and varied, but I chose this one which sums up her advice in this area:

"Burning fat efficiently boils down to one thing — building more muscle!"
-Denise Austin

"Rather than strive to 'lose weight,' most people would be better off striving to lose only fat and to build or maintain muscle."
-Mark Sisson from Mark's Daily Apple

Reduce Calories

Reducing caloric intake, and controlling the type of calories we take in is vital to weight loss. Below are some weight loss quotes that focus on calories -- total calories, calorie reduction, calorie distribution, and so on.

"Total calories dictates how much weight a person gains or loses; macro nutrient ratios dictates what a person gains or loses."
-Will Brink (Will Brink's Theory of Unified Nutrition)

"The Glycemic Index (GI) is one the best tools for fat loss. It measures how quickly foods breakdown into sugar in your bloodstream."
-Al Sears, MD

"Potatoes have such a high GI rating; it's almost the same as eating table sugar."
-Al Sears, MD

Here's some additional help maintaining your dieting motivation, to go along with this diet motivation tip sheet.

Meat Eaters - Feeling Guilty?

With all the talk about "healthy eating" and the evils of meat consumption, meat eaters have become second class citizens. According to some experts, however, eating more animal protein is not only recommended, it's an integral part of maintaining a healthy weight.

"You might consider it heretical to believe that lean meat is healthful while whole grains and dairy products are not necessarily so. But the basis for this conclusion comes from overwhelming evolutionary evidence that is increasingly being substantiated by human, animal, and tissue studies.

We all remain hunter-gatherers, displaced in time, yet still genetically adapted to a diet dominated by lean meats and fresh fruits and veggies."
-Loren Cordain, Ph.D.
Department of Health and Exercise Science, Colorado State University
Published in Early to Rise Message #1891, Monday, November 20, 2006

"Focus all your meals around high-quality animal protein. You should eat a large variety, and plan your meals around which kind of protein you'll be eating."
-Al Sears, MD

Weight Loss Advice From Anthony Robbins

Tony Robbins advises setting up a series of short-term goals and rewarding yourself immediately as you reach each one.

"Don't even wait until you've lost a pound. The minute you can push the plate away with food still on it, give yourself a pat on the back."
-Tony Robbins Awaken the Giant Within

He also recommends associating pain with doing things that you know will not support your weight loss goals, and asking the right questions (remember to set smart goals).

"'What's the ultimate price I'll pay if I don't stop this indulgence now?' By asking questions like this, they'll associate pain to overeating, and their behavior will change immediately."
-Tony Robbins Awaken the Giant Within

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Funny Weight Loss Quotes

Why so serious?! Breaking old habits and building up new ones, or any kind of life change, for that matter, can be painful. Adding a sprinkling of humor to your efforts can help take the edge off and make these changes more fun.

Depending upon your sense of humor, or sense of the absurd, the below weight loss quotes may be funny to you. Some of them are amusing, but actually have a serious message.

"Fitness - If it came in a bottle, everybody would have a great body."
-Cher

"You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is."
Ellen Degeneres

"Don't dig your grave with your own knife and fork."
-English Proverb

More Weight Loss Quotes

"For 24 years of my adult life, by choice I weighed well over 200 lbs. I say by choice because you see I have never accidentally eaten anything."
-Zig Ziglar (More Zig Ziglar quotes)

"Both belly bulge and love handles are about excess body fat, not lack of muscle. Crunches and ab exercises are therefore not the solution. The best way to reduce these problem areas is to reduce your overall body fat percentage, and we all know that that requires diet and exercise."
-Jillian Michaels advice on love handles

"The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That's what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what happens."
-Arnold Schwarzenegger

More Weight Loss Related Help

To complement the weight loss quotes listed here, have a look at my 10 secrets for weight loss motivation and ask yourself... does my fitness motivation need a makeover?

Share your insight and inspire and motivate others... Got a story? Share your weight loss success stories!

Need help? Here are some killer weight loss blogs with ideas on workouts, nutrition and diet to help you get motivated, and I've also listed some weight loss websites written by experts with various takes on diet, healthy eating, and fitness.

Other Motivational Techniques

Weight loss quotes can be useful and effective, but the more techniques you employ in all areas of your life, the more powerful your efforts will be. Use motivational posters, for example, or these tips for daily motivation in 10 minutes a day.

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Motivational quotes

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