Eating Disorder Quotes

#1. The good news, however, is that, also contrary to popular belief, full and lasting recovery from an eating disorder is possible.

Lynn Crilly

#2. Let's call a spade a spade - a lot of times when you are a vegetarian it is a just not very effective eating disorder.

Lena Dunham

#3. Around the tenth time reading some of these books to your kids, you begin to develop some really strong opinions and questions about them.
The Very Hungry Caterpillar: I'm sure I'm not the only one who is concerned that maybe the main character has an eating disorder. Hey, I identify.

Jim Gaffigan

#4. It's like he has this power over me - like I have an eating disorder and he's a package of Oreo Double Stuff cookies.

Christopher Moore

#5. Extreme picky eaters may have what's called Selective Eating Disorder. People with this experience physical and psychological discomfort over certain tastes, smells, textures.

Emily Yoffe

#6. I was struggling with anorexia, and one of the biggest problems with an eating disorder is you don't realize you have it. And you can't heal until you realize there's a problem.

Lindsey Stirling

#7. I don't think I make a very convincing dude. I think I look more like a lumberjack lesbian with an eating disorder than a kick-ass drag king.

Cherie Priest

#8. Recovery isn't easy, at first. It takes time. It takes more work, sometimes, than you think you're willing to do. But it is worth every hard day, every tear, every terrified moment. It's worth it, because the trade-off is this: you let go of your eating disorder, and you get back your life.

Marya Hornbacher

#9. Clinicians have told me that our emotional is arrested at the age that an eating disorder takes control of our lives. After we recover, we pick up emotionally where we left off at that age.

Jenni Schaefer

#10. Healing from an eating disorder is a personal journey - the medicine is whatever reminds you that you do in fact want to live, and that you are worthy and capable of love.

Shannon Kopp

#11. Anorexia is, without doubt, a serious eating disorder, but there is a hell of a lot of mainstream disordered eating going on out there.

Emma Woolf

#12. I'm here to change things so that little girls have someone to look up to. I'm here to fight the eating-disorder battle that millions of people are having and I'm standing up and saying that's not okay. Frankly, I can't fail. I will not fail.

Whitney Thompson

#13. I am forever engaged in a silent battle in my head over whether or not to lift the fork to my mouth, and when I talk myself into doing so, I taste only shame. I have an eating disorder.

Jena Morrow

#14. I want to be a positive role-model for my daughter. The last thing I want to put out there is that it's acceptable to be too thin or have an eating disorder because you're in Hollywood.

Tori Spelling

#15. Eating disorder sufferers cannot be told to 'pull themselves together', to 'stop doing that' or to 'just eat'.

Lynn Crilly

#16. You have an eating disorder if diet and food negatively impact your life and add stress where natural calm energy would usually be.

Scott Abel

#17. I cannot help but wonder if any parents ever actually schedule in adolescent drama on their day planners. Looks like a slow week, Sarah. I guess I can pencil in your eating disorder.

Huntley Fitzpatrick

#18. I think I just realized that having a problem - an eating disorder - it's not healthy and you can actually die from that. I realized it's not worth it and you just need to be healthy.

Nicole Polizzi

#19. David Garner, an eating disorder specialist, has explained that the best way to gain weight is to go on a diet to lose weight!

Ellen Frankel

#20. Red flag of the eating disorder: the muffin. Keep your eye on the ladies with the muffins ... and sometimes I'll just eat the muffin top.

Janeane Garofalo

#21. Yet because her needs and yearnings are real and pressing, she must find some way to express them: she puts into body what she cannot yet put into words. Her eating disorder serves as her voice, her attempt to express and meet her needs and desires without directly asking for anything.

Sheila M. Reindl

#22. To this day, I have a very unhealthy relationship with food. I have an eating disorder; not in that I am anorexic or bulimic - I'm not - but in the sense that I feel extremely guilty every time I eat anything that isn't water. Of course I have body issues.

Anneli Rufus

#23. An eating disorder is serious and it's a disease, and I don't think you can lightly say that someone has a disease unless they're openly telling you that they do.

Nicole Richie

#24. I have a fierce eating disorder that has survived even bariatric surgery. I got even fatter after that! Hey, maybe fat people are just trying to get closer to others, did anybody ever that of that?!

Roseanne Barr

#25. When I was dealing with the eating disorder, I wanted to look like the stick-thin models, but then I started reading fitness magazines and seeing these girls with great bodies that weren't too muscular.

Torrie Wilson

#26. I wish I could tell every young girl with an eating disorder, or who has harmed herself in any way, that she's worthy of life and that her life has meaning. You can overcome and get through anything.

Demi Lovato

#27. I think sometimes what happens is that all of this feeling out of control manifests itself in trying to control your body; whether it's an eating disorder or talking about getting your nose fixed, as if that's going to be the solution to all the pressure.

Susan Sarandon

#28. I had a really hard time when I was 16, 17, 18. I started with the eating disorder in high school.

Zoe Kravitz

#29. you'd think being turn into a monster would have some perks - some monstrous super powers like super spidey senses or cool fangs - at least something more than a skin condition and eating disorder.

E.V. Iverson

#30. Who knew death could lead to an eating disorder?

Corey Redekop

#31. If I like myself at this weight, then this is what I'm going to be. I don't have an eating disorder.

Courteney Cox

#32. You don't have to have an eating disorder to be happy or successful.

Scarlett Pomers

#33. When your healthy self is strong enough to deal with all that comes your way in life, your eating disorder self will no longer be useful or necessary. You

Carolyn Costin

#34. In the entirety of my life, I have never had an eating disorder.

Joyce Giraud

#35. I've never had body issues, I've never had an eating disorder. I've never had to go on a diet and that's because of Weight Watchers.

Ginnifer Goodwin

#36. I wasn't strong enough to have an eating disorder. I tried to go anorexic for a good three hours. I ate ice and celery, but that's not even anorexic. And I quit. I was like, 'Ma, can you make me a sandwich? Like, immediately.'

Meghan Trainor

#37. When you feel like you would rather die than live another day with an eating disorder, know that I used to feel that way too. Search deep inside yourself for the part that wants to live,

Jenni Schaefer

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

Rae Smith

#39. Later on I'm going to be really fucking beautiful. I'm going to grow into that nose and develop an eating disorder. I'll be hungry and angry all my life but I'll also have a hell of a time.

Mona Awad

#40. An eating disorder epidemic suggests that love and disgust are being jointly marketed, as it were; that wherever the proposition might first have come from, the unacceptability of the female body has been disseminated culturally.

Rachel Cusk

#41. I will not eat cakes or cookies or food. I will be thin, thin, pure. I will be pure and empty. Weight dropping off. Ninety-nine ... ninety-five ... ninety-two ... ninety. Just one more to eighty-nine. Where does it go? Where in the universe does it go?

Francesca Lia Block

#42. Guilt is a destructive and ultimately pointless emotion

Lynn Crilly

#43. Then I took a shower, unlocked the door, and set out on destroying myself.

Emma Woolf

#44. What you persist in doing gets easier. The task hasn't changed, but your ability to do it has increased.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#45. I want them [people] to feel open and comfortable to share the messy, dirty, shameful parts of themselves. Those are the parts I wanna see. And that eating disorders aren't just about "being thin."

Jessie Kahnweiler

#46. I have a remarkable ability to delete all better judgement from my brain when I get my head set on something. I have no sense of moderation, no sense of caution. I have no sense pretty much.

Marya Hornbacher

#47. My only choice was to fight my way out, even if I didn't think I would make it.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#48. Women with body image or eating disorders are not a special category; [they're] just more extreme in their response to a culture that emphasizes thinness and impossible standards of appearance for women instead of individuality and health.

Gloria Steinem

#49. Anorexics are the best liars in the world. You do anything to keep control. You place people into separate categories, those you trust, those you don't, those you can confide in and those whom you lie to. But of course the reality is that underneath it all, you are lying to yourself all the time.

Peter Barham

#50. You are a beloved child of God. But please remember this, too: You are human. You cannot expect to eat perfectly, look perfect, or be perfect. When you stumble, pick yourself up, even if you have to do it again and again.

Kate Wicker

#51. Her smile didn't mean her suffering was over, but when it appeared it was something beautiful to see; a rare flower.

Melissa C. Water

#52. She ran her hands over her body as if to bid it good-bye. The hipbones rising from a shrunken stomach were razor-sharp. Would they be lost in a sea of fat? She counted her ribs bone by bone. Where would they go?

Steven Levenkron

#53. That stinking mirror doesn't lie. Every time I walk by it shouts out, 'Hey. Chub. When are you going to lose those 15 pounds of ugly-ass flab?

Ellen Hopkins

#54. My reflection followed me mercilessly in mirrors, car doors, shop windows. I lived in a world of circus mirrors, the grotesque distortion of my body looking back at me everywhere.

Bethany Pierce

#55. I mean, we all know the dangers of starving, but bulimia? That can't be that bad. It's only bad when you get really thin. Who worries about bulimics? They're just gross.

Marya Hornbacher

#56. I found it fascinating that there could be so many realities. There was the truth, which was the world we lived. There was also the worlds we would create for ourselves in our minds. In truth, there are countless universes and realities hiding within all of mankind.

Melissa C. Water

#57. Basically, when it comes to women, both aging and eating are somehow shameful.

Emma Woolf

#58. Oftentimes, especially during my recovery, I didn't need to think about everything I was doing wrong; instead, I needed to focus more on what I was doing right - and then do more of the right stuff. I needed to live more in the solution.

Jenni Schaefer

#59. With Ed, I always pushed away the good and only heard the bad. Today, I let in the good.

Jenni Schaefer

#60. I am too big and too small and too much and not enough and too frightened to change and too sad to stay the same.

Nancy Tucker

#61. I feel most ministers who claim they've heard God's voice are eating too much pizza before they go to bed at night, and it's really an intestinal disorder, not a revelation.

Jerry Falwell

#62. It is a visual temper tantrum. You are making an ineffective statement about this and that, a grotesque, self-defeating mockery of cultural standards of beauty, societal misogyny. It is a blow to your parents, at whom you are pissed.

Marya Hornbacher

#63. But calories won't conquer me. They are one thing I can control

Ellen Hopkins

#64. There have been so many stories about alcoholism and drugs. Eating disorders are also a form of abuse, but rarely a theme in feature films that aren't documentaries.

Sanna Lenken

#65. You know you've got problems when your head is hanging over the toilet, puking up your dinner, and what you're thinking of is your dad. And how he thinks you're not pretty.

Teresa Lo

#66. I again invoke my favorite analogy for eating disorders: abusive lovers. And what do you do when someone is in an abusive relationship? You don't allow visitation rights, weekly dates. You don't put them in the vicinity of or let the abuser flirt with them. You keep them the fuck away.

Kelsey Osgood

#67. When times are bad, people feel compelled to overeat.

Don DeLillo

#68. Kessa began to cut her meat into tiny pieces. As a whole it was unmanageable, frightening; but divided and arranged, the meat could be controlled. She cut four pieces. She'd count to four between each bite.

Steven Levenkron

#69. Connect with supportive people who empower you. The more you jump into your life, the further away from Ed you can get. Don't have a backup plan for living. Live today. [ ... ] Trust in God. Believe in yourself. Get friends and family members to stand behind you. That's the only backup you'll need.

Jenni Schaefer

#70. Bear in mind you have a life to live. There is an incredible loss. There is a profound grief. And there is, in the end, after a long time and more work than you ever thought possible, a time when it gets easier.

Marya Hornbacher

#71. Because I make films about eating disorders and sexual assault, people always come up to me and are like, "Are you okay?" like I'm a broken-down shell of a woman.

Jessie Kahnweiler

#72. This woman's size protected her
from the hurts of the world
but it also imprisoned her soul.
As the merry-go-round revolved, she ate another French fry,as a silent scream frozen on her face.

David W. Earle

#73. Soon I'll be thinner than all of you, she swore to herself. And then I'll be the winner. The thinner is the winner.

Steven Levenkron

#74. Sometimes it's hard to see the rainbow when there's been endless days of rain.

Christina Greer

#75. Eating disorders are serious mental illnesses, not lifestyle choices.

Demi Lovato

#76. She'd lost two more pounds. A picture of the models she'd cut out of the magazine flashed through Kessa's mind. And the winner is ... seventy-three!

Steven Levenkron

#77. Your lowest moment and life can be your best if you survive it and learn from it

Brian Cuban

#78. A look of interest, or perhaps doubt, came across his face. "Well," he said, "I'm sure your bulimia was fulfilling some need.

Kathryn Hansen

#79. During the investigation evidence of the vulnerability of women in the modelling profession was startling and models are at high risk of eating disorders.

Denise Kingsmill, Baroness Kingsmill

#80. HEALTHY EATING isn't about counting fat grams, dieting, cleanses, and antioxidants; Its about eating food untouched from the way we find it in nature in a balanced way; Whole foods give us all that we need to perfectly nourish ourselves.

Pooja Mottl

#81. We both knew what it was to hurt our bodies. It's a strange reason to bond with someone, but I think we both needed to feel understood, and, even though we couldn't love ourselves, we could love each other.

Melissa C. Water

#82. The notion that life could be any different - that it could be better - becomes inconceivable. You forget how good it was to be normal. Worst of all, you come to believe that you prefer it this way.

Emma Woolf

#83. But I know that if I don't at least try, I'll stay the way I am till it kills me. Till I kill me, I mean. I never really accept that that's what I'm doing - I say it, but I don't believe it.

Deborah Hautzig

#84. A suicide is tragic because nothing interrupted it.

Emma Woolf

#85. How silly people were to eat. They thought they needed food for energy, but they didn't. Energy came from will, from self-control.

Steven Levenkron

#86. I was always happy when he was around. My heart did not stay still in it's place even. Nowadays my stomach replaced my heart. I was filling my stomach as long as my heart stayed empty. Just because of filling somewhere inside of me.

Arzum Uzun

#87. Ironically, this physically weak feeling signifies that I'm actually getting stronger. I know from my past that I will ultimately feel strong if I just sit with the feeling and experience it.

Jenni Schaefer

#88. The reasons for Emma's illness and for her decision to allow life in, rather than die, are intertwined and involve the beginnings of her feelings of belonging, of safety and of competence to be in the world.

Carol Lee

#89. Real hope combined with real action has always pulled me through difficult times. Real hope combined with doing nothing has never pulled me through.

Jenni Schaefer

#90. yet still I crave the sight of my own hypnotic gaze reflecting out at me from the shared mirror of anorexia and bulimia, number to life and reality, existing only in my self-made tortured state

Carol Lee

#91. 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.

Steven Levenkron

#92. She was one of those girls who wasn't entirely convinced that food was necessary for survival - anything more robust than a strawberry yoghurt made her anxious.

Kate Atkinson

#93. If you put the wrong foods in your body, you are contaminated and dirty and your stomach swells. Then the voice says, Why did you do that? Don't you know better? Ugly and wicked, you are disgusting to me.

Bethany Pierce

#94. Kessa ran her fingers over her stomach. Flat. But was it flat enough? Not quite. She still had some way to go. Just to be safe, she told herself. Still, it was nice the way her pelvic bones rose like sharp hills on either side of her stomach. I love bones. Bones are beautiful.

Steven Levenkron

#95. her eyes are unfathomable to me, hostile, even, as if she had removed herself to a place where I cannot reach her - somewhere I cannot know.

Carol Lee

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

Aimee Liu

#97. Deception' is the word I most associate with anorexia and the treachery which comes from falsehood. The illness appears inviting. It would seem to offer something to those unwary or unlucky enough to suffer from it - friendship, a get-out, or a haven - when, in fact, it is a trap.

Carol Lee

#98. Being thin created intense anxiety that I wouldn't be able to maintain that weight for life, and I couldn't.

Jenni Schaefer

#99. Locking away appetite, anger, the fullness of life, anorexia helps cover up whatever struggles inside. With its controlling bouts of bingeing and starvation, of trance and half-life, it becomes a shield to fend off despair and longing and what most of use would see as ordinary responsible behavior.

Carol Lee

#100. I left myself out of humanity by focusing on differences. This isolation only strengthened Ed (17)

Jenni Schaefer