Quotes About Compulsive Eating

#1. I tell them that if compulsive eating is anything, it's a way we leave ourselves when life gets hard. When we don't want to notice what is going on. Compulsive eating is a way we distance ourselves from the way things are when they are not how we want them to be.

Geneen Roth

#2. For some, the new addiction reached beyond gambling to compulsive eating, alcohol consumption, and hypersexuality.

David Eagleman

#3. I'm sure that my compulsive eating habits began when I was a baby.

Jean Nidetch

#4. Compulsive eating is an emotional problem, and we use an emotional approach to its solution.

Jean Nidetch

#5. You will stop turning to food when you start understanding in your body, not just your mind, that there is something better ... Truth, not force, does the work of ending compulsive eating.

Geneen Roth

#6. Compulsive eating is only the symptom; believing that you are not worth your own love is the problem. Go for the love. You will never be sorry.

Geneen Roth

#7. Oh, yes
you
can shout me down, I know! But you cannot answer me. The majority has
might on its side
unfortunately; but right it has not.

Henrik Ibsen

#8. No act of love is ever wasted.

Geneen Roth

#9. In an interview, I lose control even of what I am, for it is the interviewer who edits me, finally, into what he thinks I am, and never have I been happy with someone else's version of my life after that person has spent an entire two or three hours fathoming it.

Mark Helprin

#10. The Buddha may well have been the original psychoanalyst, or, at least, the first to use the mode of analytic inquiry that Freud was later to codify and develop.

Mark Epstein

#11. Amazing Love! how can it be,
That Thou, my God, shouldst die for me?

Charles Wesley

#12. The health dollar is very precious. When someone has such a bad condition as brain cancer, we know they're going to die and they're usually going to die within 12 months of diagnosis. They cost a lot of money to keep the patient alive for that period of time. Is it really worth it?

Charles Teo

#13. We have it in our head that if we fill our stomachs, we'll fill our hearts.

Kate Wicker

#14. If I had seen pictures of people eating each other on the wall, I would've told him I was into cannibalism.

Chelsea Handler