I tell people that the scales lie. You may have played basketball and weighed 175 pounds, with a 30-inch waist, back when you were in college. And you may still weigh 175 at 55. But you probably have a 35-inch… — Jack LaLanne Copy Share Image
The tape measure doesn't lie. Get that tape measure out and put it on your hips and your waist. Keep checking it. And keep exercising and cutting those calories down until that tape measure gets close to where you were… — Jack LaLanne Copy Share Image
You've got to exercise. Your health account, your bank account, they're the same thing. The more you put in, the more you can take… — Jack LaLanne Copy Share Image
Forget about what you used to do. Don't make those same mistakes again. Everybody says, "Oh the good old days" - the good old… — Jack LaLanne Copy Share Image
Thoughts are things. Negativity is what kills you... It's tough to do, but you've got to work at living, you know? Most people work… — Jack LaLanne Copy Share Image
There are so many health food nuts out there that eat nothing but natural foods but they don't exercise and they look terrible. — Jack LaLanne Copy Share Image
The brain's preferred source of fuel is glucose/carbohydrates. And when you go on a low-carb/high-protein diet, your brain is using low-octane fuel. You'll be… — Jack LaLanne Copy Share Image
What you need to do is get that tape measure out, and start measuring that gut. Then you start working out and you start… — Jack LaLanne Copy Share Image
The most important thing in your life is your health and your body. You can have all the education and you can have millions… — Jack LaLanne Copy Share Image
I only eat fish - no chicken, no turkey, just fish. I get all my protein from fish and egg whites. — Jack LaLanne Copy Share Image
That is the beautiful part about weights: even if you are 100 year old, you can lift something. Maybe it's only a half a… — Jack LaLanne Copy Share Image