“One guy drank six oatmeal stouts in lieu of eating an actual meal.”— John McDermott, 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
“Eggs — despite generally being placed next to milk and yogurt at the grocery store — aren’t actually dairy.”— Ian Lecklitner, melmagazine.com
“You can't take a journey by knowledge alone, rather, you have to go bite by bite.”— Evelyn Tribole, Elyse Resch, amazon.com
“Kraft Singles are a surprisingly solid source of protein and calcium, so whether you go cheeseburger or hamburger is really up to you.”— Ian Lecklitner, melmagazine.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
“If she wants to bring in a buffet of baked goods, that's her prerogative, and she's not obligated to stop on your account.”— Alison Green, askamanager.org
“Socioeconomics play a significant role in attitudes about food — especially concerns about safety and purchasing behavior. And higher income doesn’t always correlate with informed choices.”— Sheril Kirshenbaum, theconversation.com
“You might see the shots I take on the field, but you don’t see what’s behind those results—countless hours of training and a commitment to good nutrition.”— Cristiano Ronaldo, twitter.com
“Rabbit is higher in protein and lower in cholesterol than beef or pork.”— Jason Wilson, newyorker.com
“Once, he sent her a selfie from the bathtub eating spinach out of a bag, one leaf at a time. Why was he eating it this way? 'He didn’t know how else you were ‘supposed’ to eat them.'”— C. Brian Smith, melmagazine.com
“Weight isn’t neutral. A woman’s body isn’t neutral. A woman’s body is everyone’s business but her own. Even in our attempts to free one another, we were still trying to tell one another what to want and what to do. It is terrible to tell people to try to be thinner; it is also terrible to tell them…”— Taffy Brodesser-Akner, nytimes.com