First Post

This blog is to be a chronicling of my various successes and failures as they pertain to the following:

-dieting

-physical activity

-psychology of eating

-body image

-fashion

Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it.  ~Horace

Obesity is a mental state, a disease brought on by boredom and disappointment.  ~Cyril Connolly, The Unquiet Grave

Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow ye diet.  ~Lewis C. Henry

It is exercise alone that supports the spirits, and keeps the mind in vigor.  ~Marcus Tullius Cicero

Any workout which does not involve a certain minimum of danger or responsibility does not improve the body - it just wears it out.  ~Norman Mailer

The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
- Herbert Spencer

A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.
- Paul Dudley White

The body of man is a machine which winds its own springs.
- J. O. De La Mettrie