“For many women who have struggled with disordered eating most of their lives, there is nothing more terrifying than the concept of eating whatever they want.”— Anita A. Johnston, amazon.com
“It is important to recognize the difference between feeling hungry and feeling famished because if you wait to eat until you are famished, the chances of your overeating are great. You will then say to yourself, "See, I can't trust myself to eat when I am hungry!" and begin to feel very discouraged…”— Anita A. Johnston, amazon.com
“Our modern society also has a ritual for adolescent girls to mark their entrance into womanhood. It is called dieting.”— Anita A. Johnston, amazon.com
“When a woman is struggling to recover from disordered eating, it is important for her to remember that food is a metaphor and that through the process of understanding that metaphor, healing begins.”— Anita A. Johnston, amazon.com
“We just tease someone 'til they develop an eating disorder.”— Larry Charles, Elaine Benes, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, imdb.com
“Recovery from disordered eating begins with the understanding that the disordered eating behavior served you when your goal was survival.”— Anita Johnston, amazon.com
“Some people who are obsessed with food become gourmet chefs. Others get eating disorders.”— Marya Hornbacher, amazon.com
“An eating disorder is in many ways a rather logical elaboration on a cultural idea.”— Marya Hornbacher, amazon.com
“An eating disorder is in many ways a rather logical elaboration on a cultural idea.”— Marya Hornbacher, amazon.com
“If it weren’t for hitting “rock bottom” I never would have had this amazing hill of life to climb back up.”— Peter Kraus, instagram.com
“People have been frying foods since Jesus was on this planet, and there is always going to be greasy, fried, salty, sugary food. It is up to the individual to walk in and say, 'I don't want those fries today.'”— Richard Simmons, nationalreview.com
“Truthfully, everyone knows how to eat right. They know the difference between oatmeal and a jelly cream doughnut. They know how to walk. Everyone has this in their brain. When I started, we didn't have all this knowledge.”— Richard Simmons, chicagotribune.com
“I could be hit by a Sara Lee truck tomorrow. Which is not a bad way of going: 'Richard Simmons Found in a Freeway in Pound Cake and Fudge, With a Smile on His Face.' Let's face it. We don't know anything.”— Richard Simmons, grantland.com
“You can say anything you want to say about me. But don't you dare address overweight people with terrible names and ugly remarks. That is what upsets me.”— Richard Simmons, menshealth.com
“There's a list of foods I can't have in the house. Peanut butter, can't have that in the house. Potato chips, can't have that in the house. Random little small mini candy bars, don't even think about it. I just have to watch everything. I have to stay between 1500 and 1600 calories a day. That's it.”— Richard Simmons, menshealth.com
“Sometimes it's just 'Oh my God, I love the taste of fried oysters on French bread with mayonnaise and an order of French fries.' I'm not going to lie to you - I deal with that temptation every single day, many times.”— Richard Simmons, menshealth.com
“Stop trying to find something in food that will make you feel better. I used to have eating disorders; I'd binge and purge all the time: fried oysters, po' boys, muffulettas, beignets, coffee and doughnuts. I tried to medicate myself with food when people made fun of me or hit me with a bat in schoo…”— Richard Simmons, articles.chicagotribune.com
“Food became sex for me – it became my pleasure. And my taste was maturing. Puberty for me was graduating from Thousand Island salad dressing to Caesar salads. It was like going from hot dogs and hamburgers to beef stroganoff, or from ice cream in a cone to crème brûlée.”— Richard Simmons, sbnation.com
“I told my mom, 'I'm not perfect yet,' she told me the perfect anorexic is dead.”— Lauren Greenfield, amazon.com