Valerie Bertinelli
Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether you let it affect you or not.Collection: Happiness
I have faith in faith. God is there, whether we have faith or not, so why not have faith in him?Collection: Faith
I've realized that I'm more important than food is. I love a big slice of pizza, but I love myself more. Being thin is about changing the way you think about yourself. It's about saying that you deserve to be healthy.Collection: Diet
There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether to let it affect you or not.
After a lifetime of losing and gaining weight, I get it. No matter how you slice it, weight loss comes down to the simple formula of calories in, calories out.
I'm a full-time mom right now and a part-time actress.
Honesty is very sexy.
Ed is very sexy because his emotions are really there - not forced.
If you say you're fat, all of a sudden people like you!
I'm a food addict, that's my downfall.
Any partying I did, I did at home. I didn't want to be in the spotlight... There's an easy way to get away from the paparazzi; they're not that difficult to hide from and you don't need to go out for coffee every five minutes.
I think a lot of people think because I was getting the divorce, that was really the catalyst for gaining so much weight.
My eyes aren't special, my nose isn't special, my mouth isn't special.
The only things I really love about myself physically are my ankles and my hair.
Professionally, I have no major goals. That's partly because I'm really flaky. I want things, but I don't go after them. I'd rather they be placed in my lap.
I thought, If I'm so afraid of a bikini, there's something wrong. And so I had to get back into one!
I never, ever, ever had deltoids! Oh my God, when I'm doing exercises and I see them pop out, I'm like, Yes!
I have obsessed about my weight in some sort of way all my life. I used to write in my journal what I weighed every day.
I started thinking: 'Okay, what's wrong with wearing a bikini? I look better than I looked in quite a few years, so why not? What am I afraid of?
I've got this old-school workout - push-ups, sit-ups, tricep dips. And it worked. Anybody can do this at home.
Anybody can have this body if you do enough sit-ups and you just make a decision that 'Every day, I'm going to work out.' There are some days that I just don't feel like doing it, and I don't. But more often than not I get up and I get on the treadmill that I want to shoot and just do it. The first 20 minutes are the hardest.
We all have our painful pasts we have to get through.
I kept buying bigger and bigger jeans, and once the size 14s got too tight, I thought, That's it. I'm not buying the next size.
As an emotional eater, I eat to soothe.
I'm excellent at losing weight, but I've never been excellent at maintenance. I have some better days than others in terms of being hypervigilant, but with maintenance you don't know if you've been good at it until you're done.
If I sleep in and don't run, I'll feel a little bit off because I didn't do what I was supposed to do. But I'm not going to beat myself up because of it. I'll just get right back on track.
Once a food becomes off-limits, then it takes on this whole other personality. 'Forbidden' is more tempting. And it becomes something evil, but food is food. It's there to nourish your body.
I've earned all these years on my face. I don't want to be a liar if in five or 10 years I do get some Botox, but needles in the face scare me, so I don't really know if I am ever going to do that.
People come up to me and tell me how I changed their life and I've inspired them. And they tell me their stories, and that keeps me going.
Divorce isn't the child's fault. Don't say anything unkind about your ex to the child, because you're really just hurting the child.
When you're busy blocking out difficult emotions and feelings, you're not going to feel the good stuff, either.Collection: Block
When faced with the choice, choose happyCollection: Choices
Think of every step in a workout as a step in the right direction.Collection: Workout
Everybody complains that people are so flaky in LA. I'd rather be flaky than mean.Collection: Mean
Leap...and the net will followCollection: Leap
You're only as sick as your secrets.Collection: Sick
Books make great gifts because... [they don't] come in any particular size, so you don't have to be embarrassed if you bought somebody the wrong size.Collection: Book
I kept buying bigger and bigger jeans, and once the size 14s got too tight, I thought: 'That's it. I'm not buying the next size'.Collection: Jeans
Once a food becomes off-limits, then it takes on this whole other personality. Forbidden is more tempting. And it becomes something evil, but food is food. Its there to nourish your body.Collection: Evil
It took me years after stopping the cocaine before I was able to enjoy a sunrise and enjoy the sound of birds.Collection: Years
People come up to me and tell me how I changed their life and I’ve inspired them. And they tell me their stories, and that keeps me going.Collection: Stories