“The conversation of most middle-class Americans, we are told, revolves around consumption: what to buy, what was just bought, where to eat, the price of the neighbor's house, what's on sale this week, our clothes or someone else's, the best car on the market this year, where to spend a vacation. Apparently we can't stop eating, shopping, or consuming. Success is measured not in terms of love, wisdom, and maturity but by the size of one's pile of possessions.” YearsHouseTermClassWeekMiddleCarConversationEatingClothesSizePossessionNeighborMaturityMiddle ClassShoppingVacationConsumptionConsumerismConsumingOverconsumptionSuccess Is MeasuredLove Wisdom Book:The Signature of Jesus Source: The Signature of Jesus
“I was told to stay away from pasta and bread for two weeks. Not eating pasta? That'll kill me. Anything else, but why pasta?” TwoWeekEatingBreadKill MeTwo WeeksPasta Author:Tommy Lasorda
“The successful truck gardener can never go out to dinner in the summer or spend a week end away, because his conscience tells him he has to be at home eating up his corn or packaging his beans for the freezer.” EndsHomeSuccessfulWeekEatingSummerConscienceDinnerGardeningTruckCornGardenerBeansPackagingFreezerWeek End Author:Phyllis McGinley
“Food is one of my favourite things. Though I certainly know lots of people who happen to be happily married who don't have food play the role in it that it plays in my life. And I don't know how they do it, and frankly I feel so bad for them because I just love food and one of my favourite things is asking, "What do we want for dinner? What do we feel like eating?" That wonderful negotiation that goes on several times a week about what "we" feel like.” PeopleKnowsWantFeelsPlayHappensRolesKnow HowWonderfulWeekGoes OnEatingMarriedAskingDinnerFavouriteNegotiationFood LoveHappily MarriedFavourite Things Author:Nora Ephron
“I run probably 35-40 miles a week, and I think 80 per cent of your body is what you eat. The biggest part is just eating well.” ThinkingWellsBodyRunningWeekEatingYour BodyMilesCentsEating Well Author:Matthew Morrison
“This does not come naturally. I have to work out 60 to 90 minutes at least five days a week and stick to a high- fiber, low-calorie eating plan.” DoeFivePlansWeekMinutesEatingLowsSticksWork OutCaloriesFiber Author:Molly Sims
“It is essential that we renew our covenants by partaking of the sacrament. When we do this with a sincere heart, with real intent, forsaking our sins, and renewing our commitment to God, the Lord provides a way whereby sins can be forgiven from week to week. Simply eating the bread and drinking the water will not bring that forgiveness. We must prepare and then partake with a broken heart and contrite spirit. The spiritual preparation we make to partake of the sacrament is essential to receiving a remission of our sins.” WayHeartRealSpiritualSpiritWaterSinLordWeekBrokenEssentialsEatingCommitmentDrinkingBreadPreparationSincereReceivingForgivenSacramentsCovenantCommitment To GodRemissionSincere Heart Author:Vaughn J Featherstone
“I train for about 25 to 30 hours a week so I need to eat a lot. You just need to have a generally healthy diet. You need to be eating foods with lots of vitamins and minerals. You need to make sure you eat properly in order to give yourself the best chance of performing and recovering from training and competing.” NeedsGivingOrderHoursChanceWeekHealthyEatingTrainingTrainPerformingDietsCompetingVitaminsMineralsRecoveringEating FoodHealthy DietVitamins And Minerals Author:Alistair Brownlee
“I have been in Paris for almost a week and I have not heard anyone say calories, or cholesterol, or even arterial plaque. The French do not season their food with regret.” Has BeensHeardWeekRegretEatingSeasonsFranceParisCaloriesCholesterol Book:Traveling While Married Source: Traveling While Married
“The hardest thing was going through different stages of weight loss. At the beginning, it was easy to take off the weight with exercise and eating less but then you reach a point where 90 per cent of the weight loss is achieved purely through reducing your calorie intake. My goal was to lose four pounds per week. That worked well for the first few months but then things got tricky.” FirstsWellsDifferentEasyGoalLosesLossFourWeekStageMonthsExerciseEatingWeightHardestHardest ThingWeight LossReducingTrickyCaloriesEating Less Author:Matthew McConaughey
“When I do plays in New York and do eight shows a week, you have the same feeling. Three of them are terrible, four of them are okay and one is really good. It's hard to say what accounts for the really good one or for the terrible ones, but you end up trying to remanufacture whatever worked for the good one, like eating a tomato. I ate a tomato and the show was good, but that of course is not how it works.” TryingEndsHardPlayShowsFeelingsThreeCoursesFourWeekNew YorkTerribleEatingOkayAccountsEightTomatoes Author:Richard Ayoade
“My mother's side of the family is Methodist, which is how I was raised. It was conservative in that I had strong values - sitting down and eating with the family every day, listening to authority and going to church every week and having perfect attendance at Sunday school.” SchoolMotherValuesStrongSidesChurchPerfectWeekListeningAuthorityEatingSittingDown AndRaisedConservativeSundaySitting DownSunday SchoolMethodistsAttendanceGoing To ChurchStrong Values Author:Jonathan Groff
“I'm on a constant yo-yo of health. I will go a week eating incredibly clean, but then I'll follow that up with a month's worth of binge eating. Then I hit the gym and eat clean, and then I mix it up with core exercises, yoga, Pilates, and sitting on an incline bench while checking my phone.” WeekMonthsExerciseEatingYogaSittingConstantCleanPhonesCoreGymBenchesPilatesInclineBingeBinge Eating Author:Josh McDermitt
“When we come to the table, we shouldn't negotiate right away. We should spend time walking together, eating together, making acquaintance, telling each other about our own suffering, without blame or condemnation. It takes maybe one, two, three weeks to do that. And if communication and understanding are possible, negotiation will be easier. So if I am to organize a peace negotiation, I will organize it in that way.” IfsWayShouldTwoTogetherSufferingThreeUnderstandingWeekCommunicationWalkingEasierEatingTablesBlameOrganizeEnd TimesNegotiationAcquaintanceSpend TimeCondemnationEating TogetherWalking Together Author:Nhat Hanh
“You have to be cautious of eating continuously the same thing. Beef comes to mind right away, and there's nothing wrong with beef, but you've got to do whatever you're doing in moderation. So try to break it up a little bit. Eat some fish or some shellfish at least a couple of times a week.” TryingMindLittlesBitsBreakWeekCoupleEatingLittle BitFishesModerationCautiousBeefBe CautiousShellfish Author:Emeril Lagasse
“I do 45 minutes of cardio five days a week, because I like to eat. I also try for 45 minutes of muscular structure work, which is toning, realigning and lengthening. If I'm prepping for something or I've been eating a lot of pie, I do two hours a day, six days a week for two weeks.” IfsTryingTwoHoursFiveWeekMinutesSixEatingStructurePieTwo WeeksCardioCardiovascular ExerciseEating A Lot Author:Gwyneth Paltrow
“I don't really want to be fat, so I stop before I am. I'm not a vegetarian, but I might go through a phase when I'm not interested in eating protein for a week or so, and then I might go through a phase when I eat nothing but steak.” WantMightWeekEatingFatsVegetarianNot InterestedPhasesProteinSteak Author:Sharon Stone
“I remembered my New Orleans days, living on two five-cent candy bars a day for weeks at a time in order to have leisure to write. But starvation, unfortunately, didn't improve art. It only hindered it. A man's soul was rooted in his stomach. A man could write much better after eating a porterhouse steak and drinking a pint of whiskey than he could ever write after eating a nickel candy bar. The myth of the starving artist was a hoax.” MenWritingArtTwoSoulArtistOrderFiveWeekEatingDrinkingMythBarsRememberedStomachLeisureRootedCentsCandyNew OrleansStarvingWhiskeyStarvationLiving OnSteakPintsNickelsHoaxesCandy BarStarving Artist Author:Charles Bukowski
“Shane padded back to the couch and flopped, sucking on his own can of soda. Eve shot him an exasperated look. “Yeah, man, thanks for bringing me one, too.” The raccoon eye make-up exaggerated her eye roll. “Dork.” “Didn’t know if you wanted zombie dirt sprinkled on it or anything. If you’re eating this week.” IfsKnowsMenLooksEyeWantedWeekEatingShotsYeahThanksDirtHer EyesZombieCouchesExaggeratedShaneSodaDorkRaccoons Book:Glass Houses: The Morganville Vampires Source: Glass Houses: The Morganville Vampires
“I went on a diet, swore off drinking and heavy eating, and in fourteen days I had lost exactly two weeks.” TwoHumorFunnyLostLossWeekEatingDrinkingHeavyAlcoholBeerDietsWeight LossDrankTwo WeeksFourteenFunny DrinkingBeer DrinkingDrinking BeerDrinking FunnyFunny BeerDrinking WhiskeyFunny Beer DrinkingShots DrinkingIrish DrinkingDay DrinkingDrinking CheersHeavy DrinkingHeavy Drinkers Author:Joe E. Lewis