Best Eating Disorders Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 2

“The snow drifts into our zombie mouths crawling with grease and curses and tobacco flakes and cavities and boyfriend/girlfriend juice, the stain of lies. For one moment we are bot failed tests and broken condoms and cheating on essays; we are crayons and lunch boxes and swinging so high our sneakers punch holes in the clouds. For one breath everything feels better.”

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Book:Wintergirls

Source: Wintergirls

“eat, baby. eat. chew. please. I know it hurts. I know it doesn’t feel good. please. I know your hunger is different than mine. I know it doesn’t taste the same as mine. imagine you could grow up all over again and pinpoint the millisecond that you started counting calories like casualties of war, mourning each one like it had a family. would you? sometimes I wonder that. sometimes I wonder if you would go back and watch yourself reappear and disappear right in front of your own eyes. and I love you so much. I am going to hold your little hand through the night. just please eat. just a little. you wrote a poem once, about a city of walking skeletons. the teacher called home because you told her you wished it could be like that here. let me tell you something about bones, baby. they are not warm or soft. the wind whistles through them like they are holes in a tree. and they break, too. they break right in half. they bruise and splinter like wood. are you hungry? I know. I know how much you hate that question. I will find another way to ask it, someday. please. the voices. I know they are all yelling at you to stretch yourself thinner. l hear them counting, always counting. I wish I had been there when the world made you snap yourself in half. I would have told you that your body is not a war-zone, that, sometimes, it is okay to leave your plate empty.”

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Author:Caitlyn Siehl

“I had assumed the way to eat better was to find the perfect plan that would finally stop the inner battle—to quiet the noise, to eliminate the stress, and to simply know what to eat. But here’s what I discovered: Real intimacy and real growth require tension.”

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Book:Eating 2.0: How to Eat Confidently in an Ultraprocessed World

Source: Eating 2.0: How to Eat Confidently in an Ultraprocessed World

“I decided that love is when you have food in your mouth that you know is not going to make you fat. Lust is when you have food in your mouth that is going to make you fat. Fear is the day after you had food in your mouth that is going to make you fat.”

Food Eating Eating Disorders

Book:Milk Fed

Source: Milk Fed

“Hunger forces a kind of refusal, a brutal, impenetrable independence, leaves us quite literally unable to break bread and connect with the people in our orbit; I realise now that this is how I’ve lived most of my adult life.”

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Book:Small Acts of Disappearance

Source: Small Acts of Disappearance

“It's not just the foods we eat but the way we think about them.”

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Author:Dawn Tucci

“And just in case you didn't know this little tidbit about social interaction, let me fill you in on something: Do not ever comment on how or what or when a woman is eating anything. Don't do it. Because you know what might happen? You might trigger an obsession with food that the woman had managed to stifle for over twenty years - an obsession that throttled her ability to function throughout high school and college - all because you couldn't resist monitoring her refried beans. Good job. Well done. Five stars. Ten points for you.”

Women Food Eating Disorders

Book:The Valedictorian of Being Dead: The True Story of Dying Ten Times to Live

Source: The Valedictorian of Being Dead: The True Story of Dying Ten Times to Live

“As the helpless vampire watched the transformation, it started screaming. It was still screaming when his rows of razor sharp teeth sank into its throat.”

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Book:Longinus the Vampire

Source: Longinus the Vampire

“It's the soul that's starving, not the body”

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Book:The Satisfied Soul: Transforming Your Food and Weight Worries

Source: The Satisfied Soul: Transforming Your Food and Weight Worries

“You are not a mistake. You are not a problem to be solved. But you won't discover this until you are willing to stop banging your head against the wall of shaming and caging and fearing yourself. (p. 84)”

Health Eating Body Image Eating Disorders

Book:Women, Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything

Source: Women, Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything

“When you believe without knowing you believe that you are damaged at your core, you also believe that you need to hide that damage for anyone to love you. You walk around ashamed of being yourself. You try hard to make up for the way you look, walk, feel. Decisions are agonizing because if you, the person who makes the decision, is damaged, then how can you trust what you decide? You doubt your own impulses so you become masterful at looking outside yourself for comfort. You become an expert at finding experts and programs, at striving and trying hard and then harder to change yourself, but this process only reaffirms what you already believe about yourself -- that your needs and choices cannot be trusted, and left to your own devices you are out of control (p.82-83)”

Health Eating Body Image Eating Disorders

Book:Women, Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything

Source: Women, Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything

“. . . hell is wanting to be somewhere different from where you are. Being one place and wanting to be somewhere else . . . . Wanting life to be different from what it is. That's also called leaving without leaving. Dying before you die. It's as if there is a part of you that so rails against being shattered by love that you shatter yourself first. (p. 44)”

Health Eating Body Image Eating Disorders

Book:Women, Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything

Source: Women, Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything

“Freedom from obsession is not about something you do; it's about knowing who you are. It's about recognizing what sustains you and what exhausts you. What you love and what you think you love because you believe you can't have it. (p. 163)”

Health Eating Body Image Eating Disorders

Book:Women, Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything

Source: Women, Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything

“...compulsive eating is basically a refusal to be fully alive. No matter what we weigh, those of us who are compulsive eaters have anorexia of the soul. We refuse to take in what sustains us. We live lives of deprivation. And when we can't stand it any longer, we binge. The way we are able to accomplish all of this is by the simple act of bolting -- of leaving ourselves -- hundreds of times a day.”

Health Eating Body Image Eating Disorders

Book:Women, Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything

Source: Women, Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything

“It's never been true, not anywhere at any time, that the value of a soul, of a human spirit, is dependent on a number on a scale. We are unrepeatable beings of light and space and water who need these physical vehicles to get around. When we start defining ourselves by that which can be measured or weighed, something deep within us rebels. We don't want to EAT hot fudge sundaes as much as we want our lives to BE hot fudge sundaes. We want to come home to ourselves. (p. 174-5)”

Health Eating Body Image Eating Disorders

Book:Women, Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything

Source: Women, Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything

“Weight (too much or too little) is a by-product. Weight is what happens when you use food to flatten your life. Even with aching joints, it's not about food. Even with arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure. It's about your desire to flatten your life. It's about the fact that you've given up without saying so. It's about your belief that it's not possible to live any other way -- and you're using food to act that out without ever having to admit it. (p. 53)”

Health Eating Body Image Eating Disorders

Book:Women, Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything

Source: Women, Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything

“When you ignore your belly, you become homeless. You spend your life trying to erase your own existence. Apologizing for yourself. Feeling like a ghost. Eating to take up space, eating to give yourself the feeling that you have weight here, you belong here, you are allowed to be yourself -- but never quite believing it because you don't sense yourself directly. . . . I started teaching a simple belly meditation in which I asked people to become aware of sensations in their belly (numbness and emptiness count as sensations). Every time their mind wandered . . . I asked them to begin counting their breaths so they could anchor their concentration. Starting with the number one and saying it on the out breath, they'd count to seven and begin again. If they were able to stay concentrated on the sensations in their belly centers, they didn't need to use counting as a concentration anchor. . . . you begin the process of bringing yourself back to your body, to your belly, to your breath because they -- not the mind medleys -- are here now. And it is only here, only now that you can make a decision to eat or not eat. To occupy your own body or to vacate your arms and your legs while still breathing and go through your days as a walking head. . . . Meditation is a tool to shake yourself awake. A way to discover what you love. A practice to return yourself to your body when the mind medleys threaten to usurp your sanity.”

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Book:Women, Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything

Source: Women, Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything

“Our work is not to change what you do, but to witness what you do with enough awareness, enough curiosity, enough tenderness that the lies and old decisions upon which the compulsion is based become apparent and fall away. When you no longer believe that eating will save your life when you feel exhausted or overwhelmed or lonely, you will stop. When you believe in yourself more than you believe in food, you will stop using food as if it were your only chance at not falling apart. When the shape of your body no longer matches the shape of your beliefs, the weight disappears. (p. 80-81)”

Health Eating Body Image Eating Disorders

Book:Women, Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything

Source: Women, Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything

“As deeply embodied conditions that entangle existential, phenomenological, and relational concerns, eating disorder manifest as sites where profound issues of intimacy, trust, obligation, and care are struggled out as the illnesses are lived, identified, and treated.”

Health Illness Eating Disorders Phenomenology

Book:Famished: Eating Disorders and Failed Care in America

Source: Famished: Eating Disorders and Failed Care in America

“On holidays, I cave in to the memory of love, and associate desserts and eating with the love I experienced at my grandmother's table. She was a great cook, and sweets crowded the side console cabinet during Thanksgiving and Christmas. I have no answer as to how to overcome this. I will try until I die, every day. Just keep trying to be well. Enough said.”

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Book:The Chiffon Trenches

Source: The Chiffon Trenches

“You know what, you got this. You are going to turn your trials into your testimonies.”

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Book:Dying on The Inside and Suffocating on The Outside