A lot of people on our team were crash dieting to make weight instead of doing it over the whole week. Plus the pressure of lifting in front of everyone.

I want to win so bad, unbelievably bad. A lot of people say this year is my year to win. Next year, most likely I'll be at 154 because I can't keep building muscle and stay at the weight I'm at now.

Women get boob jobs to give themselves a certain edge. Frankly, I don't see why they nearly kill themselves trying to diet off their equally bulbous hips.

Every weight loss program, no matter how positively it’s packaged, whispers to you that you’re not right. You’re not good enough. You’re unacceptable and you need to be fixed.

She'd even violated the only sensible rule of dieting she'd ever run across, the sage advice of the Muppets' Miss Piggy, who recommended never eating anything bigger than your head.

Just think of all those women on the Titanic who said, "No, thank you," to dessert that night. And for what!