Quotes About Addiction To Food

#1. From food addiction to food serenity - freedom tastes great!

Vera Tarman

#2. Whiteness, Fanon asserts, has become a symbol of purity, of Justice, Truth, Virginity. It defi nes what it means to be civilized, modern and human

Anonymous

#3. Dating, like almost every other male-female interaction in present-day society, is based on outmoded and unequal social roles and expectations.

Lynn Coady

#4. Once again, when you upgrade sensations from an addiction to a preference, you can enjoy things such as gourmet food and music, without having your happiness depend on them.

Ken Keyes Jr.

#5. Food-addiction, or food-drunkenness, is an old story in Hygienic literature. This is the first mention I have seen of it in "regular" medical literature. I fear to hope that its recognition spells progress.

Herbert M. Shelton

#6. Stephanie, I'm begging you. Eat some doughnuts. I can't keep going like this. - Morelli

Janet Evanovich

#7. If I have one addiction in life, it's probably food.

Liam Hemsworth

#8. It's time to transition beyond our fossil fuel addiction to a just economy based on green jobs, renewable energy, and local organic food.

Winona LaDuke

#9. That was when it became abundantly clear to me that simply eating in a way that avoided hurting others was never going to be enough if my eating habits were still hurting me.

Jasmin Singer

#10. Chili is not so much food as a state of mind. Addictions to it are formed early in life and the victims never recover. On blue days in October, I get this passionate yearning for a bowl of chili, and I nearly lose my mind.

Margaret Cousins

#11. The human animal needs meaning as well as food and air and sex and water. The sense that life is meaningless is at the root of a great deal of depression, aggression, and addiction, which can only be addressed by a restoration of the sense that life is meaning-full.

Robert Moss

#12. The good news is that there is one kind of food you can never have too much of. The best way to fully recover from a food addiction or body-image problem is to fill up on the Lord.

Kate Wicker

#13. Old white guys can be a funny bunch, can't they? The same anti-same-sex marriage, anti-affirmative action cadre can flower into the biggest supporters of 'equality' the minute they get a whiff of minority empowerment.

John Ridley

#14. For him (LBJ) food was not an indulgence but and intoxicant, an object he reached for to fill a gaping void, one he could never fill up.

Jonathan Darman

#15. The brain chemistry that drives the addict to seek pleasure beyond the point of satiety is similar, whether the user favours Jack Daniels or Jack-in-the-Box.

Vera Tarman

#16. When we are true to ourselves, all that is toxic and burdensome simply falls away

Dina Hansen

#17. Food, sex, and liquor create their own appetite.

Sheilah Graham Westbrook

#18. Every addiction arises from an unconscious refusal to face and move through your own pain. Every addiction starts with pain and ends with pain. Whatever the substance you are addicted to - alcohol, food, legal or illegal drugs, or a person - you are using something or somebody to cover up your pain.

Eckhart Tolle

#19. Let us build a 21st-century rural economy of cutting-edge companies and technologies that lead us to energy and food security. Such an investment will revitalize rural America, re-establish our moral leadership on climate security and eliminate our addiction to foreign oil.

Tom Vilsack

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

Christina Greer

#21. When each day is the same as the nest it's because people fail to reconize the good things that happen in thier lives everyday the sunrises,

Paulo Coelho

#22. That is the one single word that the food industry hates: 'addiction.' They much prefer words like 'crave-ability' and 'allure.'

Michael Moss

#23. On fasting days, picture your ideal body and remember that your body is dipping into its fat reserve for energy and repairing damaged cells. Let that knowledge encourage and support you. Feel your food addiction weakening its hold on you.

David Ortner

#24. A balanced dieT to make you die with a tea, consists of holding two bags of cookies on each hand and a voracious hunger to consume.

Ana Claudia Antunes

#25. Wild inside; raging,
writhing - yes, "writhing" was the word, writhing with desire. But
outwardly he was hopelessly tame; outwardly - baa, baa, baa.

Aldous Huxley

#26. Lucy: Yes, as usual I bought so many books that my food budget ran out. I was left with no choice but to eat bread crusts. But! On the other hand, this means that I was able to feed my word addiction! I feel no shame whatsoever about eating bread crusts!

Hasebe: Have a little shame.

Karino Takatsu

#27. The cakes and pies and casseroles beckoned like gastronomic sirens, and there was no one to lash me to the mast.

Chris Fabry

#28. Just because you didn't speak the facts out loud didn't erase their existence. Silence was just a quieter way to lie.

Jodi Picoult

#29. There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death. Whether it's the mundane violence we do to our bodies by overeating toxic food or drink or the extreme violence of child abuse, domestic warfare, life-threatening poverty, addiction, or state terrorism.

Bell Hooks

#30. You would think that the more a man knows and loves God, the deeper he gets into understanding His Word, and the further he progresses in personal holiness, the better he would be at being a watchful man, but that is sadly not the case.

James MacDonald

#31. The abuse of food, alcohol, or drugs is essentially a material response to a need that isn't really physical at its foundation.. What we are looking for is pure joy rather than mere sensation, or even oblivion of sensation. Addiction is unrecognized spiritual craving.

Deepak Chopra

#32. Reading the text of my blog itself is not really the interesting part. The exciting part is how the Internet allows me to be the eyes and ears for the people sending me postings from Africa.

Ethan Zuckerman

#33. When I was a boy, my older brothers listened to Earth, Wind & Fire and Kool and the Gang. When I would try to get into their room, they would close the door and say, 'You can't hear that. It's not for a child!' Now, I can listen to it and enjoy it.

Omar Sy

#34. You know you are addicted to a food if despite knowing it is bad for you and despite wanting to change, you still keep eating it. Addiction means that a craving has more control over your behavior than you do.

Kathy Freston

#35. I have heard one doctor call high-protein, high-fat, low-carbohydrate diets "make-yourself-sick" diets, and I think that's an appropriate moniker. You can also lose weight by undergoing chemotherapy or starting a heroin addiction, but I wouldn't recommend those, either.

T. Colin Campbell