Top 17 Quotes by Jean Nidetch

About Jean Nidetch

These are some quotes by American author Jean Nidetch Businessman, who lived between October 12, 1923 and April 29, 2015.

You have to make the decision to lose weight in your head, not your stomach.

You have to make the decision to lose weight in your head, not your stomach.

Jean Nidetch

When you're trying to lose weight, one of the most important things you can do is eat three decent meals a day so that you're not so hungry that you can't get food off your mind. Habit and hunger have long been the basic, insidious enemies of the overweight. We can't fight hunger, but we can fight habit.

Jean Nidetch

For the first few years after I lost weight, I would feel for my hip bones every morning when I woke up so I would know I wasn't fat. It was like pinching myself so I'd know I wasn't dreaming.

For the first few years after I lost weight, I would feel for my hip bones every morning when I woke up so I would know I wasn't fat. It was like pinching myself so I'd know I wasn't dreaming.

Jean Nidetch

It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny.

It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny.

Jean Nidetch

We ourselves hold the instrument that makes us fat. I just shake my head when I see someone eating cake and saying, 'Oh, I wish I wasn't heavy.' But they keep eating the cake!

We ourselves hold the instrument that makes us fat. I just shake my head when I see someone eating cake and saying, 'Oh, I wish I wasn't heavy.' But they keep eating the cake!

Jean Nidetch

I was fat, so I have the right to tell other fat people not only that they should lose weight, but also that they must lose weight because I was fat, and I lost weight, and I saw the difference.

I was fat, so I have the right to tell other fat people not only that they should lose weight, but also that they must lose weight because I was fat, and I lost weight, and I saw the difference.

Jean Nidetch

I'm sure that my compulsive eating habits began when I was a baby.

I'm sure that my compulsive eating habits began when I was a baby.

Jean Nidetch

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