I have two rules for living in the world. I never say anything negative about anyone, because that won't get you anywhere. And two, if people confront me with certain questions, if they are not right, I will not answer them.
Ninety percent of people who lose weight gain it back. It's very sad.
Right now many schools have no recess. Most schools have no PE.
All of a sudden, I'm thinking that if I keep eating the way I'm eating, I'm not going to live long and I'm going to die. Having those thoughts as a young person can be very haunting.
When I go to bed at night, I ask God to give me another day; I ask him to keep me strong and make me a good teacher and to keep spreading this right word.
I hope in my lifetime we can all continue to laugh at ourselves and not put down anyone for what they weigh.
Some people like to look at pictures of themselves before they lost weight. I don't particularly care for that. Whenever I was overweight, it was a very sad time in my life.
People spend thousands in therapy digging and digging in the past. When you dig and dig, you find relics. Try to forgive yourself and get back on that ride.
When we're binging, we do not think about death. We just think about how good it tastes.
I've never lived in the visual world. I live very much in an emotional-contact world.
My nickname is Dickie Jukebox. I own thousands and thousands and thousands of songs.
Its an eerie thing. My childhood is being washed away.
I could be hit by a Sara Lee truck tomorrow. Which is not a bad way of going: 'Richard Simmons Found in a Freeway in Pound Cake and Fudge, With a Smile on His Face.' Let's face it. We don't know anything.
I'm a very insecure and emotional person still looking to be loved by everyone else.
Thats what we need going into the millennium. We need some positive, happy stuff.
Everyone in Senate is a hurdle, but everyone in there has children. Everyone in there has grandchildren. No one wants to see our kids continue to gain weight, have high blood pressure high cholesterol, diabetes, and depression.
For my workout, I'm up at 4am. I say my prayers, count my blessings, and I work out right away. I just get it done. One day I'll tone - chest, back and shoulders - and the next day it's biceps and triceps. I also do 45 minutes of cardio every day. I do that before I even leave the house.
My way is the sensitive, emotional way, because that's who I am. A day doesn't go by where I don't sit and cry, listening to the stories. I try to be the clown and court jester and make people laugh.
When I lost my weight, I went and bought about 15 different types of underwear to see what would look good on my new body. It's exciting!
The real pride, the real present, is your health and your longevity. My whole career, I have never done anything where competition was involved with weight loss.
When I go to teach, that's not my workout. It's my show. I'm 134 pounds - I'm a teeny thing. I work out 11/2 hours a day and eat 1,600 calories. I can't stray because I have to fit into these Dolfin shorts!
When I was younger, I ate nothing but fried food. Everything was fried, from oysters to chicken to potatoes to vegetables. When you die in New Orleans, they deep fry you before they put you in the coffin. When we baptize children in New Orleans, we baptize them with a bordelaise sauce; we don't use water.
But if you pick up every other magazine, it is the peanut butter diet, or the cabbage soup diet, and then you go to the radio and you hear that you can drink some solution and you will lose weight overnight. It just does not work that way!
I do not want any child in America to have my childhood because it was taken away from me because I just wasn't good enough; well I am good enough now.
I have been up to my head just with calling people, I call about 50 to 100 people a day.
