Dr Phil McGraw

This ain’t my first rodeo son!

Life experiences, mental illness, drugs, greed, environment, and poor role-modeling can all forge damaged people and can generate a darkness, an exploitiveness, in the way they approach life. Whatever their genesis, there are people in your life (and mine) who will hurt you if you let them.

I’ve talked to so many people, men and women alike, that get overweight and their self-esteem just goes in the tank. They think they’re judged. They think they’re unattractive.

Sometimes you’ve just gotta give yourself what you wish you were getting from someone else.

Opinions are like asses, every body’s got one!

Life is not a success-only journey. You are going to get beat up along the way. And you’ve got to have the strength of character to get up and get back in the game.

I’ve talked to so many people, men and women alike, that get overweight and their self-esteem just goes in the tank. They think they’re judged. They think they’re unattractive.

I don’t care how pumped up or psyched you are to start a new diet or a new program – that emotion will fade.

Get up each morning, look at yourself in the mirror, and see yourself not as someone who is overweight or out of shape, but as the someone you will become.

You’re FAT – and don’t try to sugarcoat it, because you’ll just eat that, too.

Obesity has overtaken cancer as the No. 1 cause of avoidable, preventable death in American society. It’s an epidemic-level problem.

A year from now, you’re gonna weigh more or less than what you do right now.

The time is coming when man will be able to determine the length of his lifespan by controlling his diet.

Experts indicate that you should aim for consistent weight loss of about one to two pounds per week, so you should remain realistic—you aren’t going to lose 40 pounds per week (no matter what any diet product claims).

Food is a coping mechanism; people are afraid of giving it up because then they’ll feel confused and lost.

Successful weight loss takes programming, not willpower.

Now ask yourself if you’re really going to spend the rest of your life on one of those ridiculous diets. The honest answer is, no, you won’t. So, that means you might lose weight while you’re on it, but you’ll probably gain it back when you’re off it because you haven’t made any real lifestyle changes.

Reality check: you can never, ever, use weight loss to solve problems that are not related to your weight. At your goal weight or not, you still have to live with yourself and deal with your problems. You will still have the same husband, the same job, the same kids, and the same life. Losing weight is not a cure for life.

Now, my body fat runs around 18 percent, which is normal and, you know, kind of in the middle of normal, actually.

What I want people to do is what’s healthy for them.