Kathy Freston famous quotes

Animal agriculture takes up an incredible 70% of all agricultural land, and a whopping 30% of the land surface of the planet. As a result, farmed animals are probably the biggest cause of slashing and burning the world's forests.
-- Kathy Freston

#Animal #Land #Agriculture

An abundance of peer-reviewed science is showing that a whole foods, plant-based diet prevents most heart attacks, strokes, and even many kinds of cancer. It gets you to your ideal weight easily and sustainably, reverses Type 2 diabetes, and even fixes erectile dysfunction (because it greatly improves circulation!).
-- Kathy Freston

#Cancer #Heart #Type 2 Diabetes

Quantum wellness isn’t about deprivation and it’s not about perfection. It is about pointing yourself in the direction of growth, training yourself to get comfortable with your highest potential, and then taking small steps to support that shift. It’s about showing up for yourself, day by day, and then one day finding that you’ve undergone a transformation.
-- Kathy Freston

#Perfection #Support #Growth

In the middle of it all, pause and look around you. Appreciate what’s beautiful. Take in the love. Nod to what’s good and true. And then move forward one step at a time.
-- Kathy Freston

#Beautiful #Moving #Appreciate

Every little thing you do adds up, and before you know it, you've created your life. And how you create your life ripples out and affects everyone and everything that crosses your path, known or unknown to you.
-- Kathy Freston

#Add #Littles #Path

I grew up in Doraville, Georgia and I ate barbecued ribs and chicken fried steak, and all kinds of cheesy grits, you know, and I never even thought twice about it.
-- Kathy Freston

#Cheesy #Grit #Georgia

Vegetarian is the New Prius!
-- Kathy Freston

#Vegetarian #Climate Change #Prius

Whole foods like grains and beans release their sugar very, very slowly because of the fiber in them, and they don't give you a sugar rush. They feed your cells as needed, and as a result, you have loads of stable energy that powers you through the day.
-- Kathy Freston

#Cells #Giving #Sugar

You don't need to stick to tough rules or overnight changes; you need not rely on hardcore discipline that makes you hate your life. You need only focus on progress, not perfection. Lean in to the process of losing weight, and it will happen easily.
-- Kathy Freston

#Hate #Progress Not Perfection #Discipline

What you want is to rev up your metabolism so that you are burning fat and calories, not preserving fat and calories.
-- Kathy Freston

#Burning #Want #Metabolism

The goal is progress, not perfection!
-- Kathy Freston

#Progress Not Perfection #Goal #Perfection

Nourished people, people who love and care for themselves, are also more efficient and nicer to be around. When you give yourself permission to relax, people will feel more relaxed around you; your environment will become more harmonious. Balance - between work and pleasure, giving and receiving, seriousness and levity - creates a happy healthy life.
-- Kathy Freston

#Giving #People #Healthy

The reason fiber helps us control our weight is that it fills the belly yet yields few calories since fiber is, for the most part, not something that we can digest.
-- Kathy Freston

#Yield #Weight #Fiber

If you want to feel more comfortable and happy, work on making the people around you more comfortable and happy.
-- Kathy Freston

#People #Finding Happiness #Want

Most diets would have you cutting things out from your diet; they are about denial and discipline.
-- Kathy Freston

#Cutting #Discipline #Denial

I was weaned on chicken-fried steak and hominy grits with goopy gravy all over. I loved meat and wore fur.
-- Kathy Freston

#Fur #Grit #Meat

Personally, I enjoy a bowl of brown rice for breakfast most of the time.
-- Kathy Freston

#Breakfast #Brown #Enjoy

Though I'm vegan and advocate that others eat a plant-based diet, I know that many people aren't quite ready to take that step in whole.
-- Kathy Freston

#People #Steps #Vegan

We all thought of chicken as lean, protein-rich food that's good for weight watching, but the truth is chicken might actually be making us fatter!
-- Kathy Freston

#Weight #Might #Rich

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. When you feed yourself what your body needs when it needs it, that's love. So give your bod some TLC and sit down and enjoy a good, substantial breakfast.
-- Kathy Freston

#Giving #Important #Breakfast

You can do something as simple as drinking two cups of water before a meal to fill your belly a bit so that you don't overeat, or change up your cheese from dairy to nondairy.
-- Kathy Freston

#Drinking #Simple #Two

I think that food ties us to our community and our traditions, and it's the thing that makes us feel good and connected.
-- Kathy Freston

#Thinking #Ties #Community

Hunger and self-control do not go hand in hand.
-- Kathy Freston

#Hands #Self #Hunger

You know you are addicted to a food if despite knowing it is bad for you and despite wanting to change, you still keep eating it. Addiction means that a craving has more control over your behavior than you do.
-- Kathy Freston

#Mean #Knowing #Addiction

For many of us, it's too difficult to jump in to vegan full on because it's just so different than the way we grew up eating. But if we take small steps - like replacing cow's milk with almond or soy milk, or using veggie sausage instead of sausage made from animals - we can keep enjoying the things we grew up loving, just better versions of them.
-- Kathy Freston

#Animal #Small Steps #Soy Milk

...you need not do and be everything.
-- Kathy Freston

#Stress #Needs

Little by little we discover that we don't need to eat animal products at all, because there are so many healthier alternatives that taste great. The trick is going easy with yourself so that you can find your way comfortably. Then you'll stick with it.
-- Kathy Freston

#Animal #Needs #Alternatives

You get tons of phytonutrients and antioxidants from plant-based foods, very little saturated fat, and you avoid cholesterol entirely!
-- Kathy Freston

#Littles #Plant #Cholesterol

You know how most people think that eggs are great sources of protein? Well, you only get about six grams from an egg, and about half of that is in the yolk and the other half is in the white. If instead you opt for a cup of lentils, you get a whopping eighteen grams of protein, plus all that fiber that makes you feel full and cleans out your body!
-- Kathy Freston

#Thinking #Eggs #White

The business of raising animals for food (with its continuous heavy waste stream of methane and nitrous oxide - leading global warming gases) is responsible for about 18% of global warming. Some scientists actually say the number is closer to 50%.
-- Kathy Freston

#Animal #Numbers #Waste

Here's the secret to weight loss: It's all about crowding out, not cutting out.
-- Kathy Freston

#Loss #Cutting #Secret

And check this out: If every American had one meat-free day per week, it would be the same as taking eight million cars off American roads in a year.
-- Kathy Freston

#Eight #Years #Car

Be patient and gentle with yourself as you continue to learn new ways of eating and living. There is no need for hard-and-fast rules or white-knuckle determination. Keep leaning forward into the positive changes you are making, and then apply that same gentleness to your family and community.
-- Kathy Freston

#Determination #Character #White

When you gradually add in nutrient-dense, fiber-rich foods, you simply stop feeling cravings. You run out of space in your belly for the old junk. Instead of craving, you feel full, fulfilled, and content.
-- Kathy Freston

#Running #Space #Feelings

So if you're rooting around for something to eat, grab an apple while you're looking, and usually by the time you're finished eating it, your hunger will have been sidelined; it's crowding out at its best!
-- Kathy Freston

#Apples #Hunger #Eating

So if you serve a whole chicken to your family like grandma did, you may be serving them 10 times as much fat than the days of yesteryear. That's a whole lotta fat, and big trouble for the waistline.
-- Kathy Freston

#Grandma #May #Yesteryear

My favorite meal is I'll make like a three-bean soup and I freeze half of it. But I'm also a big fan of meat alternatives, so I can still have my chicken and mashed potatoes and green beans, but I just have the chicken from a plant-based thing.
-- Kathy Freston

#Fans #Meals #Three

We've all seen chicken portrayed as the low-fat, heart-healthy alternative to red meat for years, but it no longer adds up. You might want to lean away from eating birds and lean toward more plant-based options of protein like black beans, lentils, tofu, chickpeas and whole grains.
-- Kathy Freston

#Heart #Years #Bird

I missed a tuna-fish sandwich with mayo on toasted wheat bread more than anything. Six months after I went vegan, I snuck into a deli and took one home. And, of course, it wasn't nearly as good as I fantasized. It tasted, well, fishy.
-- Kathy Freston

#Home #Tuna Fish #Six Months