It cannot be easy to lose weight, which often requires a lot of willpower and drive. It is easy to become discouraged and lose focus, especially when progress could be faster or more present. Finding strategies to maintain your motivation and dedication to your weight reduction objectives is crucial.
Surrounding oneself with inspiration and optimism is one of the best ways to keep motivated when losing weight. And using inspiring quotations is the best approach to do that. Inspirational quotes can uplift and motivate us, helping us stay focused on our goals and pushing us toward success.
In order to inspire and motivate you as you begin your weight loss journey, we’ve included 50 motivational quotes on losing weight in this post. Whether you’re struggling to lose those last few pounds or just starting your weight loss journey, these motivational quotes will inspire you and keep you focused on your goals.
Let’s dig in and get the motivation and inspiration you require to reach your weight reduction objectives!
1. Chris Powell
“The only way to lose weight is to start, not tomorrow, not next week, but today.”
2. Peggy Ryan – The Syndicated Newspaper Nutrition Columnist’s Handbook
“The only way to lose weight is to check it as airline baggage.”
3. Vincent Okay Nwachukwu, Weighty ‘n’ Worthy African Proverbs – Volume 1
“If you want to be a celebrated loser, be a weight loser.”
4. Larry McMurtry – Somebody’s Darling
“If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.”
5. Ted Lindsay
“I always believed if you take care of your body it will take care of you.”
6. Bonnie Pfiester – Pfit Blog
“Fitness is like marriage, you can’t cheat on it and expect it to work.”
7. Anthelme Brillat-Savarin – Physiology of Taste
“You are what you eat.”
8. Jim Rohn – The Art of Exceptional Living
“Take care of your body, it’s the only place you have to live.”
9. Leigh Hunt – The Anatomy of Misery
“The groundwork for all happiness is good health.”
10. Jillian Michaels – Shape Magazine
“It’s not perfect. It’s about effort. And when you bring that effort every single day, that’s where transformation happens. That’s how change occurs.”
11. Christian D. Larson – Your Forces and How to Use Them
“Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.”
12. Ralph Waldo Emerson – Self-Reliance
“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
13. Jordan Belfort – The Wolf of Wall Street
“The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can’t achieve it.”
14. G.K. Chesterton – Orthodoxy
“The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.”
15. Ralph Waldo Emerson – The Conduct of Life
“The first wealth is health.”
16. Jillian Michaels – The Master Your Metabolism Cookbook
“If you want to lose weight, you have to reduce your calories. There’s no way around it.”
17. Will Roger – The Illiterate Digest
“Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.”
18. Mark Twain – Following the Equator
“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.”
19. Thomas Jefferson – The Works of Thomas Jefferson
“If you want something you’ve never had, you must be willing to do something you’ve never done.”
20. Sam Levenson – In One Era and Out the Other
“Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.”
21. Muhammad Ali – An Interview With CBS News
“Don’t count the days, make the days count.”
22. Robert Kiyosaki – Rich Dad Poor Dad
“Your future is created by what you do today, not tomorrow.”
23. Virgil – The Poem “The Aeneid”
“The greatest wealth is health.”
24. Theodore Roosevelt
“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.”
25. Health Spirit And Happiness Journals – Weight Loss Journal
“It’s not a diet, it’s a lifestyle change.”
26. Drew Carey
“Eating crappy food isn’t a reward. It’s a punishment.”
27. Zig Ziglar – Inspiration Notebook
“You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.”
28. Michael Pollan – In Defense of Food
“Eat food, not too much, mostly plants.”
29. John F. Kennedy
“Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.”
30. Antoine de Saint-Exupery – “The Little Prince.”
“A goal without a plan is just a wish.”
31. Arnold Schwarzenegger – from an interview with Men’s Health
“You can have results or excuses. Not both.”
32. Kate Moss – A 2009 Interview With Women’s Wear Daily
“Nothing tastes as good as being healthy feels.”
33. Todd M. Weber – An Article On EBNC
“Your body is the result of your lifestyle.”
34. Jamie Richards – Choose Your Hard
“Losing weight is hard; being overweight is hard; choose your hard.”
35. Anonymous
“Sweat is just fat crying.”
36. Jennifer Hudson – SELF Magazine’s Interview 2011
“I’m prouder of my weight loss than my Oscar.”
37. Phil McGraw – The Ultimate Weight Solution: The 7 Keys to Weight Loss Freedom
“Successful weight loss takes programming, not willpower.”
38. Brian Wansink – Slim by Design: Mindless Eating Solutions for Everyday Life
“If you want to be skinny do what skinny people do.”
39. Toni Sorenson – The Great Brain Workout: 156 Puzzle Challenges for a Healthy Brain
“Weight loss doesn’t begin in the gym with a dumb bell; it starts in your head with a decision”
40. Jenna Wolfe – Thinner in 30: Small Changes That Add Up to Big Weight Loss in Just 30 Days
“If it doesn’t challenge you, it doesn’t change you.”
41. Karl Lagerfeld – An Interview With Harper’s Bazaar UK In October 2012
“Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose!”
42. Khloé Kardashian – An Interview With Women’s Health UK In September 2016
“When I lost my weight and kept it off, it’s when I lost it slowly. I know that expression ‘the turtle wins the race’. Now I know that if I lose weight in a healthy way, I keep it off.”
43. Bethenny Frankel – Naturally Thin: Unleash Your SkinnyGirl and Free Yourself from a Lifetime of Dieting
“Your diet is a bank account. Good food choices are good investments.”
44. Miranda Lambert – An Interview With People Magazine In 2014
“I lost my weight the healthy and good old-fashioned way: Watching what I eat and working out with my trainer.”
45. Ashley Graham – An Interview With Harper’s Bazaar UK In 2019
“Your words have so much power. Every day, if you tell yourself ‘I love you’, if you give yourself one word of validation, it will change your mind.”
46. Michelle Obama – Becoming
“For me, exercise is more than just physical – it’s therapeutic”
47. Venus Williams – Come to Win: Business Leaders, Artists, Doctors, and Other Visionaries on How Sports Can Help You Top Your Profession
“Just believe in yourself. Even if you don’t, pretend that you do, and at some point, you will.”
48. Melissa Joan Hart – an interview with PopSugar in 2014
“Staying in shape and staying fit is so important in my life just because of all the things I want to do.”
49. Adele
“Giving up processed food, sugar, soda and get into an exercise routine, like cardio and strength training, will change people’s body.”
50. Arthur Ashe – Days of Grace: A Memoir
“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”
51. Jim Wendler
“Make time for it. Just get it done. Nobody ever got strong or got in shape by thinking about it. They did it.”
52. Tom Rath – Eat Move Sleep: How Small Choices Lead to Big Changes
“Small steps can help you achieve your goals. It’s the little things that count.”
53. Michael Jordan – from an interview with CBS News
“I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.”
54. Karyn Henley – The Body Book: The Law of Hunger, the Science of Strength, and Other Ways to Love Your Amazing Body
“The more you eat, the less flavor; the less you eat, the more flavor.”
55. Jillian Michaels – from an interview with Women’s Health Magazine
“Transformation is not a future event, it’s a present-day activity.”
56. Tony Robbins – Awaken the Giant Within
“The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.”
57. Buddha
“To keep the body in good health is a duty, otherwise, we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.”
58. Dr. Seuss – Oh, the Places You’ll Go!
“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.”
59. Robert Collier – The Secret of the Ages
“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.”
60. Joe Cross – Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead
“When you eat junk food, you feel like junk.”
61. Mandy Ingber – Yogalosophy: 28 Days to the Ultimate Mind-Body Makeover
“Change your thoughts, change your habits, change your body.”
62. Deepak Chopra – What Are You Hungry For?: The Chopra Solution to Permanent Weight Loss, Well-Being, and Lightness of Soul
“The secret of success in any field is the ability to draw on the resources of the mind and bring them into the field of action.”
63. David Wolfe – Eating for Beauty
“When you start eating food without labels, you no longer need to count calories.”
64. David Zinczenko – Zero Belly Diet: Lose Up to 16 lbs. in 14 Days!
“Losing belly fat is not just about fitting into skinny jeans. It’s about being healthy on the inside, too.”
65. Jessica Biel – in an interview with Vogue in 2018
“For me, getting enough sleep, drinking lots of water, having a healthy diet, and staying away from alcohol are musts. It’s so boring, I know, but doing those things really helps.”
66. Joyce Meyer – The Confident Woman Devotional: 365 Daily Inspirations
“If you only do what is easy, you will always remain weak.”
67. Catherine L. Taylor
“To lose weight permanently requires faith – faith there is a bigger life waiting for you beyond food and weight.”
68. Felicity Luckey
“Everything you can imagine about how you will look and feel when you lose weight is real.”
69. Tony Robbins – Awaken the Giant Within
“Remember, we all get what we tolerate. So stop tolerating excuses within yourself, limiting beliefs of the past, or half-assed, lukewarm living. Decide what you want. Make a plan, and get your ass out there and make it happen.”
70. Deepak Chopra – Reinventing the Body, Resurrecting the Soul
“The mind and body are not separate units, but one integrated system. How we treat the body can have a profound effect on how we feel emotionally and spiritually.”
71. Earl Nightingale – The Strangest Secret
“We become what we think about.”
72. Arnold H. Glasgow
“The key to losing weight is to eat until you feel good, not until you’re full.”
73. Richard Simmons – Never Say Diet
“Dieting is like any other skill, it takes time and practice.”
74. Lao Tzu – Tao Te Ching
“The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.”
75. Jenna Wolfe
“You didn’t gain all your weight in one day; you won’t lose it in one day. Be patient with yourself.”
76. Heather Montgomery
“The hardest step to fitness is the first. Take it now!”
77. Kim Brittingham
“Every weight loss program, no matter how positively it’s packaged, whispers to you that you’re not right. You’re not good enough. You’re unacceptable and you need to be fixed.”
78. Dr. Mehmet Oz – You: On a Diet
“Your body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.”
79. Bob Harper – Jumpstart to Skinny
“Change nothing, and nothing changes.”
80. Dr. David Ludwig – Always Hungry?
“The key to permanent weight loss is to shift your body’s biochemistry in a way that naturally drives your weight down.”
81. Oprah Winfrey – an interview with Parade Magazine
“I know I have a responsibility to be a role model for others, so I try to make healthy choices that everyone can follow.”
82. Dr. Mark Hyman – The Blood Sugar Solution
“Food is medicine. Eat to nourish your body.”
83. Dr. Travis Stork – The Lose Your Belly Diet
“Weight loss isn’t about perfection, it’s about progress.”
84. Dr. Mehmet Oz -You: Staying Young
“Eat well, move more, stress less, love more.”
85. Dr. Michael Greger – How Not to Diet
“Focus on the food you’re adding to your diet, not the food you’re taking away.”
86. Dr. Kellyann Petrucci – The 10-Day Belly Slimdown: Lose Your Belly, Heal Your Gut, Enjoy a Lighter, Younger You
“Believe in yourself and your ability to succeed.”
87. Dr. Jason Fung – The Obesity Code
“Eating less is not the answer. It’s about eating the right foods and balancing your hormones.”
88. Paulo Coelho – The Alchemist
“And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
89. Michael Jordan – Motivational Quotes for Athletes
“I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”
90. Oprah Winfrey – O Magazine
“The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.”
91. Zig Ziglar – See You at the Top
“People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.”
92. Jillian Michaels – Winning by Losing: Drop the Weight, Change Your Life
“The only way you get that fat off is to eat less and exercise more.”
93. John C. Maxwell – Developing the Leader Within You
“You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.”
94. Dale Carnegie – How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
“Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.”
95. Chris Powell – Choose More, Lose More for Life
“The only successful way to reach and maintain a healthy weight is to find what works for you.”
96. Mireille Guiliano – French Women Don’t Get Fat
“Find your inner motivation and use it as a source of strength to keep on going.”
97. Richard Simmons – Never Say Diet
“I know how hard it is to eat properly and exercise regularly, but it’s the key to keeping the weight off.”
98. Joy Bauer – Joy’s Simple Food Remedies: Tasty Cures for Whatever’s Ailing You
“Your health is worth the effort it takes to make small changes.”
99. Lisa Lillien – Hungry Girl Clean & Hungry: Easy All-Natural Recipes for Healthy Eating in the Real World
“Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Every small step counts towards your goal.”
100. Jen Widerstrom – Diet Right for Your Personality Type: The Revolutionary 4-Week Weight-Loss Plan That Works for You
“Find your why and let it fuel you.”
