“The values around glamorized wealth and extreme thinness have only been proselytized wider as Ms. Zuckerbrot’s renown has grown.”— Katherine Rosman, Abby Ellin, nytimes.com
“Is a person with a baseball bat good? Maybe, if he or she is on a baseball field. But not on the pitcher's mound. And not in a Taylor Swift concert. Similarly, let's view food in a more complex manner.”— Bruce Y. Lee, forbes.com
“I want to say fuck it, and binge. I want to eat pizza. Real bread. Get drunk. But you know what? I want to stay on track more. There’s no compulsion to binge lately.”— Shannon Ashley, medium.com
“I feel like a new person, all thanks to the changes I’ve made in my diet.”— Nivea Mullings, womenshealthmag.com
“A healthy diet should be all about what you can eat, not about all the things you can’t eat.”— Noah Lehava, coveteur.com
“All in all, diet soda is by no means a healthy choice—shocking, I know—even when compared to regular soda.”— Ian Lecklitner, melmagazine.com
“When you know you can truly eat whatever food or meals you want -- without guilt, why would you choose to feel physically uncomfortable?”— Evelyn Tribole, Elyse Resch, amazon.com
“Our experience has shown us that if you're meant to get to your natural ideal weight, you need to loosen up on yourself, put weight loss on the back burner, and treat your body with respect.”— Evelyn Tribole, Elyse Resch, amazon.com
“You can't take a journey by knowledge alone, rather, you have to go bite by bite.”— Evelyn Tribole, Elyse Resch, amazon.com
“Your body needs to know consistently that it will have access to food -- that dieting and deprivation have halted, once and for all. Otherwise, your biology will always be on call, ready to avert a self-imposed food deprivation.”— Evelyn Tribole, Elyse Resch, amazon.com
“What many people believe to be an issue of willpower, is instead a biological drive. The power and intensity of the biological eating drive should not be understimated.”— Evelyn Tribole, Elyse Resch, amazon.com
“The body does not know that there is a McDonald's on every corner as you embark on a diet. As far as the body is concerned it is living in a famine state and adapts.”— Evelyn Tribole, Elyse Resch, amazon.com
“A novel study of over 2,000 sets of twins from Finland, aged 16 to 25 years old showed that dieting itself, independent of genetics, is significantly associated with accelerated weight gain and increased risk of becoming overweight.”— Evelyn Tribole, Elyse Resch, amazon.com
“If all we needed to be normal weight was knowledge about food and nutrition, most Americans wouldn't have weight problems. The information is readily available.”— Evelyn Tribole, Elyse Resch, amazon.com
“All I know is that I’ve never felt better, perhaps because my central nervous system is no longer firing hunger pain signals, or any other kinds of signals for that matter.”— Ross Wolinsky, mcsweeneys.net