{"quotes":[{"text":"I was not a good-lookin' girl. I was extremely skinny. I wasn't pretty. I wasn't cool.","author":"Celine Dion","tags":["girl","cool","skinny "],"id":10519,"author_id":"Celine+Dion"},{"text":"More often than not, expecting to lose weight without first losing the diet that made the weight loss necessary is like expecting a pig to be spotless after hosing it down while it was still rolling in mud.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["adage","adages","africa","african","anorexia","anorexic","aphorism","aphorisms","appetite","axiom","axioms","bmi","body-fat","body-mass-index","cheat-day","cheat-days","clean","deep","dictum","dictums","diet","dietician","dieticians","dietitian","dietitians","epigram","epigrams","exercise","exercises","fat","fatty","food","funny","gnome","gnomes","gym","gymnasium","health","healthy","hose","humor","humorous","humour","ingredient","ingredients","insightful","lean","lose-weight","made-me-think","make-you-think","maxim","maxims","mud","muscles","muscular","necessary","necessity","obese","obesity","overeat","overeater","overeating","overweight","philosopher","pig","pigs","profound","proverb","proverbs","provoke-thought","quotation","quotations","quote","of-the-day","quotes","recipe","recipes","roll","rolling","salad","salads","satire","satirical","saying","sayings","shred","shredded","skinny","south-africa","south-african","spotless","sugar","sugary","thought-provoking","thoughtful","underweight","watch-what-you-eat","weight","weight-loss","weight-to-height","weightlifter","weightlifting","workout"],"id":45938,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Oh, how I regret not having worn a bikini for the entire year I was twenty-six. If anyone young is reading this, go, right this minute, put on a bikini, and don't take it off until you're thirty-four.","author":"Nora Ephron","tags":["bikini","humorous","skinny"],"id":51618,"author_id":"Nora+Ephron"},{"text":"Kessa ran her fingers over her stomach. Flat. But was it flat enough? Not quite. She still had some way to go. Just to be safe, she told herself. Still, it was nice the way her pelvic bones rose like sharp hills on either side of her stomach. I love bones. Bones are beautiful.","author":"Steven Levenkron","tags":["anorexia","beautiful","bones","eating-disorder","mental-illness","skinny","thin"],"id":92204,"author_id":"Steven+Levenkron"},{"text":"One of the leading causes of obesity is the misbelief that, when it comes to juice, ‘100%’ means ‘sugar-free.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["100","aphorism","aphorisms","aphorist","aphorists","beefy","beer-bellied","belief","beliefs","big-boned","blubbery","chubby","chunky","corpulent","fat","fatty","flabby","fleshy","funny","grease","greasy","gross","health","healthy","healthy-food","healthy-foods","heavy","heavyset","humor","humour","hundred-percent-juice","joke","jokes","juice","large","lean","mass","meaty","misbelief","misbeliefs","misconception","misconceptions","obese","obesity","of-ample-proportions","oily","overweight","paunchy","plump","plus-sized","porky","portly","potbellied","roly-poly","satire","skinny","stout","sugar","sweet","sweet-tooth","thin","tubby","weight","well-upholstered"],"id":152052,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"By choosing healthy over skinny you are choosing self-love over self-judgment. You are beautiful!","author":"Steve Maraboli","tags":["beauty","body-image","choices","health","judgment","skinny","weight"],"id":163089,"author_id":"Steve+Maraboli"},{"text":"From the newsstands a dozen models smiled up at her from a dozen magazine covers, smiled in thin-faced, high-cheekboned agreement to Kessa's new discovery. They knew the secret too. They knew thin was good, thin was strong; thin was safe.","author":"Steven Levenkron","tags":["anorexia","eating-disorders","happy","models","skinny","society","thin"],"id":239407,"author_id":"Steven+Levenkron"},{"text":"Skinny jeans were only good if you had skinny genes.","author":"Matt Dunn","tags":["fashion","genes","humour","jeans","lol","puns","skinny"],"id":258184,"author_id":"Matt+Dunn"},{"text":"For desert, maybe we can split a couple of crumbs.","author":"Nicholas Sparks","tags":["food","humor","skinny"],"id":263120,"author_id":"Nicholas+Sparks"},{"text":"Heart lesson #3: post-heartbreak survival. The heart is resilient, I mean literally. When a body is burned, the heart is the last organ to oxidize. While the rest of the body can catch flame like a polyester sheet on campfire, it takes hours to burn the heart to ash. My dear sister, a near-perfect organ! Solid, inflammable.","author":"Ibi Kaslik","tags":["heart","ibi-kaslik","skinny"],"id":325128,"author_id":"Ibi+Kaslik"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":14,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}