Sexy By Nature Quotes

“The real model for health, however, is more complicated. The real model goes like this: eating low-quality foods leads to overeating and metabolic brokenness, which makes you overweight and sick.”
― Stefani Ruper, Sexy by Nature: The Whole Foods Solution to Radiant Health, Life-Long Sex Appeal, and Soaring Confidence

“The modern world’s obsession with restriction has led to a wide variety of practices that are detrimental to health. These practices may masquerade as healthy, but they are not. Excess exercise is one of them. Fasting is another. Examples that might be harder to believe but are equally harmful include low-calorie diets, low-fat diets, and vegetarianism. This fact is made all the more unfortunate because these practices are especially harmful for women.”
― Stefani Ruper, Sexy by Nature: The Whole Foods Solution to Radiant Health, Life-Long Sex Appeal, and Soaring Confidence

“Your body has always been trying to heal. It has just been hindered by bad rules and bad food.”
― Stefani Ruper, Sexy by Nature: The Whole Foods Solution to Radiant Health, Life-Long Sex Appeal, and Soaring Confidence

“punishment is not the best way to motivate yourself to do things. Psychologists know this well: punishment almost inevitably leads to negative behavior in the long run. A much better way to promote consistently good behavior is to use positive reinforcement. This is a fact of human nature, and a lesson we should take from the natural world.”
― Stefani Ruper, Sexy by Nature: The Whole Foods Solution to Radiant Health, Life-Long Sex Appeal, and Soaring Confidence

“You must love your body, but you must also be flexible about what it looks like. Over the years, it is going to change a lot. Pregnancy, nursing, menopause, physical activities or injuries…all these experiences create powerful and unavoidable shifts in the shape of your body. So take it day by day. Appreciate your body as it is today. Love it for the hardships it has endured and the healing it is doing at this very moment. You do not have to be perfect. You do not have to adhere to a specific ideal that you or anyone else has set. You are you, and your body as it is today is just one part of that.”
― Stefani Ruper, Sexy by Nature: The Whole Foods Solution to Radiant Health, Life-Long Sex Appeal, and Soaring Confidence

“But if we reject the idea of a common, ideal body type and instead take pride in our own unique shapes, then we don’t have to vie against each other in the race for beauty and love. We can, instead, celebrate our differences.”
― Stefani Ruper, Sexy by Nature: The Whole Foods Solution to Radiant Health, Life-Long Sex Appeal, and Soaring Confidence

“Existential self-love says that you are worthy no matter what. It says that love isn’t based on characteristics. It demands that you love yourself and all other beings unconditionally, with profoundly open arms. No matter what you have done in your past, what you may do in your future, and what things may befall you in between, you are an integral part of the complex web of life, and therefore you are worthy of loveliness and composed of beauty. The world would not be the same without you. You are necessary and important.”
― Stefani Ruper, Sexy by Nature: The Whole Foods Solution to Radiant Health, Life-Long Sex Appeal, and Soaring Confidence

“I don’t know about you, but the last thing I want in my bloodstream is the stuff my body would otherwise excrete as feces.”
― Stefani Ruper, Sexy by Nature: The Whole Foods Solution to Radiant Health, Life-Long Sex Appeal, and Soaring Confidence

“Almost none of us know how to escape the trap of self-punishment. It has sinisterly woven itself into the fibers of American femininity.”
― Stefani Ruper, Sexy by Nature: The Whole Foods Solution to Radiant Health, Life-Long Sex Appeal, and Soaring Confidence

“Does it make more sense to be at war with your body or to work with it? Does it make more sense to heal your body from the get-go or to try to bandage it up later? Does it make more sense to think of your body as a natural body or as a thing that is distant from you and requires medication? Does it make more sense to care about the quantity of calories or the quality of calories?”
― Stefani Ruper, Sexy by Nature: The Whole Foods Solution to Radiant Health, Life-Long Sex Appeal, and Soaring Confidence