Rule Zero, Day 1, Feb 3rd 07: Just Put One Foot In Front Of The Other.
Rule #1, Day1, Feb 3rd 07: Drink No Calories.
Rule #2: Day 2, Feb 4th 07: Don't Go It Alone.
Rule #3: Day 4, Feb 6th 07: Nibble, Chew, Savor.
Rule #4: Day 10, Feb 12th 07: Persist.
Rule #5: Day 18, Feb 20th 07: Think.
Rule #6: Day 30, Mar 4th 07: Pace Yourself.
Rule #7: Day 41, Mar 15th 07: Address the Cause.
Rule #8: Day 47, Mar 21st 07: Carpe Diem.
Rule #9: Day 54, Mar 27th 07: Make it Not Hard.
Day 56, Mar 30th 07: A fiddler on the roof. Sounds crazy, no? But here, [at Morbidly Obese], you might say [I'm] a fiddler on the roof trying to scratch out a pleasant, simple tune without breaking his neck. It isn't easy. You may ask 'Why do [you] stay up there if it's so dangerous?' Well, we stay because [we don't like the other options]. And how do we keep our balance? That I can tell you in [three] word[s]: [I DON'T KNOW]! -Fiddler on the Roof
Day 56, Mar 30th 07: The way it works is, you do the thing your [don't want to do], and you get the courage AFTER you do it, that's how it works. -Three Kings
Day 56, Mar 30th 07: I AM [Morbidly Obese]! And I see a whole army of my country men, here, in defiance of [obesity]. You've come to fight as free men, and free men you are. What will you do with that freedom? Will you fight? Aye, fight and you may [fail], run, and you'll [have it easy]... at least for a while. And dying in your beds, [not so] many years from now, would you be willin' to trade ALL the days, from this day to that, for one chance, JUST ONE CHANCE, to come back here and tell our enemies that they may [sap our motivation], but they'll never take... OUR [NEW LIFE]! -Braveheart
Day 50, Mar 24th 07: Every body perseveres in its state of being at rest or of moving uniformly straight ahead, except insofar as it is compelled to change its state by forces impressed. -Sir Isaac Newton
Day 47, Mar 21st 07: They're not that different from you, are they? Invincible, just like you feel. The world is their oyster. They believe they're destined for great things, just like many of you, their eyes are full of hope, just like you. Did they wait until it was too late to make from their lives even one iota of what they were capable? Because, you see gentlemen, these boys are now fertilizing daffodils. But if you listen real close, you can hear them whisper their legacy to you. Go on, lean in. Listen, you hear it? - - Carpe - - hear it? - - Carpe, carpe diem, seize the day boys, make your lives extraordinary. -Dead Poet's Society
Day 40, Mar 14th 07: "[They] are stayed neither by snow nor rain nor heat nor darkness from accomplishing their appointed course with all speed." -Herodotus
Day 39, Mar 13th 07: "'Everything is permissible for me'-but not everything is beneficial. 'Everything is permissible for me'-but I will not be mastered by anything." -1 Corinthians 6:12
Day 32, Mar 6th 07: "You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you just might find, you get what you need." -Jagger & Richards
Day 30, Mar 4th 07: "Some times in our lives we all have pain, we all have sorrow; but if we are wise, we know that there is always tomorrow. Lean on me, when your not strong, and I'll be your friend, I'll help you carry on, for it won't be long, 'Til I'm going to need, somebody to lean on." -Paul Hill
Day 30, Mar 4th 07: "Diet for weight loss, exercise for health, be supported for persistence, & a lifestyle to keep it off." - Me
Day 20, Feb 22nd 07: "The price of freedom is eternal vigilance." -Thomas Jefferson
Day 16, Feb 18th 07: "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." - Michael Pollan NYT
Day 12, Feb 14th 07: "I take issue with their total fixation on weight in terms of pounds." -Dr. Barbara Moore of Weight Watchers
Day 12, Feb 14th 07: "And now you know." -G.I. Joe
Day 7, Feb 9th 07: "It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door, you step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to." -Bilbo Baggins
Day 7, Feb 9th 07: “Somewere the hurting must stop.” - Terry Fox
Day 4, Feb 6th 07: "Do or do not, there is no try." -Yoda
Day 4, Feb 6th 07: "Back off, get your own sandwich! (This is where the kick comes in.)" -Sub Commercial
Day 4, Feb 6th 07: "Do whatever you need to do to succeed." -Danward59
Day 4, Feb 6th 07: "I can have no victory if the Enemy isn't real." -Me
Day 1, Feb 4th 07: "Diet is easily twice as significant as exercise in weight loss, it is also twice as hard, some would say it's weighted." -Me
Day 1, Feb 3rd 07: "No food is as satisfying as not being fat." -Weight Watchers