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“For many years, I struggled with how I felt about myself. I hid and harbored very self-destructive eating issues, namely anorexia, which at its worst caused me to lose half of my hair and brought my weight down dramatically.”

Years Self Felt Loses Half Issues Worst Hair Eating Weight Destructive Anorexia Self Destructive

Author:Renee Olstead

“Eating disorders are like a gun that's formed by genetics, loaded by a culture and family ideals, and triggered by unbearable distress.”

Culture Eating Gun Ideals Disorder Distress Unbearable Genetics Loaded Anorexia Eating Disorder

Book:Restoring Our Bodies, Reclaiming Our Lives: Guidance and Reflections on Recovery from Eating Disorders

Source: Restoring Our Bodies, Reclaiming Our Lives: Guidance and Reflections on Recovery from Eating Disorders

“Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.”

Knows Enemy Eating Self Awareness Anorexia Eating Disorder

Author:Jeremy Taylor

“You deserve the place you have in this world. Do not let the eating disorder take that from you.”

World This World Eating Deserve Disorder Anorexia Eating Disorder

Author:Rae Smith

“We turn skeletons into goddesses and look to them as if they might teach us how not to need.”

Ifs Needs Looks Might Turns Teach Eating Chaos Disorder Goddess Anorexia Eating Disorder Skeletons Bulimia

Author:Marya Hornbacher

“And, what's more, this 'precious' body, the very same that is hooted and honked at, demeaned both in daily life as well as in ever existing form of media, harrassed, molested, raped, and, if all that wasn't enough, is forever poked and prodded and weighed and constantly wrong for eating too much, eating too little, a million details which all point to the solitary girl, to EVERY solitary girl, and say: Destroy yourself.”

Ifs Wells Littles Enough Body Form Girl Millions Forever Too Much Media Eating Details Daily Life Solitary Anorexia

Author:Emilie Autumn

“I finally understood that by being on a perpetual diet, I had practiced a "disordered" form of eating my whole life. I restricted when I was hungry and in need of nutrition and binged when I was so grotesquely full I couldn't be comfortable in any position by lying down. Diets that tell people what to eat or when to eat are the practices inbetween. And dieting, I discovered, was another form of disordered eating, just as anorexia and bulimia similarly disrupt the natural order of eating.”

Source: Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain

“Girls developed eating disorders when our culture developed a standard of beauty that they couldn't obtain by being healthy. When unnatural thinness became attractive, girls did unnatural things to be thin.”

Culture Girl Healthy Eating Standards Attractive Disorder Unnatural Anorexia Eating Disorder Thinness Standards Of Beauty Attractive Girl

Book:Reviving Ophelia

Source: Reviving Ophelia

“And dieting, I discovered, was another form of disordered eating, just as anorexia and bulimia similarly disrupt the natural order of eating. "Ordered" eating is the practice of eating when you are hungry and ceasing to eat when your brain sends the signal that your stomach is full. ... All people who live their lives on a diet are suffering. If you can accept your natural body weight and not force it to beneath your body's natural, healthy weight, then you can live your life free of dieting, of restriction, of feeling guilty every time you eat a slice of your kid's birthday cake.”

“She began to be reassured by these pains, tangible symbols of her success in becoming thinner than anyone else. Her only identity was being "the skinniest." She had to feel it.”

Feels Pain Identity Becoming Eating Symbols Tangible Anorexia Eating Disorder

Author:Steven Levenkron