This has probably been done before, but I thought it would be fun start a thread for everyone to post their favorite "go-to" quotes and affirmations that keeps them going when things are tough. I don't know about you, but it helps me to slow down and remind myself of why I want to do this work in the first place. A couple of my favorites:

It's never too late to to be what you might have been - - George Elliot

If you stumble, make it part of your dance - - (unknown)

"No food tastes as good as skinny feels"

One of my all time faves is:

"Being fat is hard. Losing weight is hard. Maintaining your weight is hard. Pick your hard."

Another one I love is:

"I'm not telling you it's going to be easy. I'm telling you it's going to be worth it."

"Life is a journey, not a Destination" Enjoy the journey!

Ok, I have a couple of favorites, some relate more directly to weight loss than others, but these are the ones that help keep me pushing forward:

"Do not wait; the time will never be ''just right.'' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along"- Napoleon Hill

"You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you, and allowing that goodness to emerge." Eckhart Tolle

And just because I love Jack Kerouac- "The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirious of everything at the same time the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing but burn burn burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars."

And of course the quote in my signature !

"Enough is as good as a feast."

~ Laura Ingalls Wilder


"The second bite won't be as good as the first bite, so stop after one bite."

~ Unknown

"If you are going through he**... keep going!" Winston Churchill

As in, don't SIT there. Move up, down, left, right, over, under... whatever. Just keep going and trying to get out of the fog. You def won't make it out if you set up camp and stay laying there.

“The right tool for the right job.” Ad slogan used for True Temper tools since at least 1907

No amount of diet solves problems with emotional eating, body image, etc. I had to deal with emotional eating (the root) because no amount of diet (the bandaid) was going to be a permanent fix if I didn't learn to cope with my stress in non-eating ways.


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"Don't live to eat, eat to live"

"Learn how to eat, not how to starve!" Heard that on a weight watchers commercial!

"Don't turn a trip into a fall" Heard this on Private Practice in reference to alcoholism. I like to think of it in terms of dieting though, when I "trip" on my plan, I don't need to use that as an excuse to "fall" off the wagon. Cheesy, I know, but it helps me

"If you call your troubles experiences and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy however adverse your circumstances seem to be."