Ali Vincent Quotes

All my serving utensils are measured. It's not obvious, because they're really beautiful, but I have the option of tracking what I'm eating. That helps me be smart about it.

The only battle to win is the battle within, that place where we realize that we deserve to have and create all that we want in our lives.

To think about your life is to create it. You have to take ownership of where you are right now and know where you want to go before you can get there. Keep collecting evidence for your success. You can believe it, and you can be it.

When weight loss becomes a goal in your life, eating right and exercising are just two pieces of the puzzle. Figuring out why you've put on the extra weight is the hardest part.

There's something fundamental you have to understand about yourself before you can change your life for good.

Chicken exits are self-sabotage. They give you a false explanation for why you don't have something you want.

In order to truly give to others, you have to give to yourself first.

When you have the courage to tell the truth about what you're really afraid of, fear doesn't have control over your life.

Behind weight gain are the larger hurts and questions that have to be explored, probed, and understood before weight loss and maintenance is a possibility. It's a bigger issue than just calories in, calories out.

If you can focus on what you're going to create out of all your hard work, you can push through tough moments.

Making excuses is not going to get me any closer to my goals.

You have to track every single thing you eat if you want to keep posting big numbers on the scale each week.

You just have to start putting one foot in front of the other, making an effort to get healthy every day.

I needed targets, different things to go for on a daily basis - a distance on the treadmill or a weight goal. Without them, I wasn't celebrating myself enough, and I got really good at beating myself up.

When I was overweight and unhappy, I thought about being smaller, I thought about fitting into different clothes and feeling comfortable in any environment or social situation. But I didn't do anything about it. I was letting myself fall victim to not planning, not clarifying steps to reach my goals. Don't go on just wanting something. Start consciously planning where you want to be.

Stop seeing the obstacles you face as reasons why you can't do something. See them as a reason why you can. And celebrate your accomplishments on a daily basis.

It gets a lot easier to deal with life's curveballs when you're not hiding under layers of fat.