Quotes About Overeating

#1. Some regulatory phenomenon could drive us to gain weight, which would in turn cause a positive energy balance - and thus overeating and/or sedentary behavior.

Gary Taubes

#2. Despite the depth and certainty of our faith that saturated fat is the nutritional bane of our lives and that obesity is caused by overeating and sedentary behavior, there has always been copious evidence to suggest that those assumptions are incorrect, and that evidence is continuing to mount.

Gary Taubes

#3. Eating is a natural way to feel happy. Overeating isn't.

Deepak Chopra

#4. Everything can be brought to the extreme. Food is good, overeating is bad. Possessions are good, hoarding is bad. Guilt is good, obsessing about guilt is bad. But I think guilt is good because I'm like, "Hey, I just stabbed that guy and I feel pretty good."

Lino Rulli

#5. I Don't Really Like Thanksgiving Food, I'm Not Worried About Overeating.

Kim Kardashian

#6. Overeating at Thanksgiving is a case in point. It's a national tradition.

Eric Samuel Timm

#7. While overeating would be seen by some as an indulgence of self, it is in fact a profound rejection of self. It is a moment of self-betrayal and self-punishment, and anything but a commitment to one's own well-being.

Marianne Williamson

#8. Radiation, unlike smoking, drinking, and overeating, gives no pleasure, so the possible victims object.

Isaac Asimov

#9. Drugs or overeating or alcohol or sex, it was all just another way to find peace. To escape what we know. Our education. Our bite of the apple.

Chuck Palahniuk

#10. All [replacing of fat] does is lead to dissatisfaction and I think that dissatisfaction results in overeating.

Alton Brown

#11. I suggest Substituting Inedible Nurturance, or SIN. Don't replace overeating with virtuous work or exercise; instead, make a list of things you love, from watching TV to hanging out with favorite people.

Martha Beck

#12. These Indians are fierce, they wear feathers and grunt. Most of us dont fit this idealized figure since we grunt only when overeating

Vine Deloria Jr.

#13. Eating a high-nutrient diet actually makes you more satisfied with less food, and actually gives the ability to enjoy food more without overeating.

Joel Fuhrman

#14. Overspending is as certain a part of the holiday season as overeating. But pushing away from both the table and the cash register at least a little bit sooner can make the post-holiday hangover hurt a little bit less.

Jeffrey Kluger

#15. How does one control weight? By not overeating. How does one stay in shape? One plays sports. There are no magic pills here.

Vladimir Putin

#16. I was compulsively overeating when I was eight years old.

Demi Lovato

#17. You lose the known package of your nice organized self almost instantly here. Overeating is one way back, the way it is at funerals at home.

Anne Lamott

#18. Everybody dies. There's no avoiding it, and I do not believe for one second that butter is the cause of anyone's death. Overeating may be, but not butter, please. I just feel bad for people who make that mistake.

Nora Ephron

#19. What's the ultimate price I'll pay if I don't stop this indulgence now? By asking questions like this, they'll associate pain to overeating, and their behavior will change immediately.

Tony Robbins

#20. The case for prohibiting drugs is exactly as strong and as weak as the case for prohibiting people from overeating.

Milton Friedman

#21. Often, overeating is a way to punish yourself for the anger and resentment you're feeling - either at yourself or someone else.

Karen Salmansohn

#22. Whether it's overeating or it's overworking or over-sex or whatever it is, alcoholism, drug addition, we push ourselves to the brink and then pull back because it's kind of exciting.

Anthony Hopkins

#23. The interesting thing about overeating or being obese is there's this physical manifestation of it.

Jami Attenberg

#24. Often when a person can't get past stress, she will turn to overeating, drinking or smoking, which can become a greater problem than the stress itself.

Marilu Henner

#25. I was eating lots of vegetables and fruit every day during my pregnancy - my baby needed the best of the best, so it was the opposite of overeating. I had this being inside of me, and I was responsible for everything he got.

Gisele Bundchen

#26. No one is more sensitive to the issue of overeating than the creator of Stuart Smalley.

Al Franken

#27. A diet counselor once told me that all overweight people are angry with their mothers and channel their frustrations into overeating. So I guess that means all thin people are happy, calm, and have resolved their Oedipal entanglements.

Wendy Wasserstein

#28. It is facile to imply that smoking, alcoholism, overeating, or other ingrained patters can be upended without real effort. Genuine change requires work and self-understanding of the cravings driving behaviours.

Charles Duhigg

#29. One reason we're so vulnerable to overeating is, we don't feel worthy of having a good life.

S. McLaurie

#30. Regret leads to overeating and naps.

Mason Cooley

#31. Loud, stupid and overeating will suffice as long as we also have the funny, the fierce and the intellectual

Denis Leary

#32. Seth discovered that night that he had two extra stomachs; one for vodka and one for overeating.

Kenneth Eade

#33. Chances are you're using overeating as a way to escape yourself. It's an attempt not to feel or think about what you really need to feel and face.

Karen Salmansohn

#34. Overcopulation
The Main Street Babbitts
are fucking like rabbits,
competing and coping
in a crowded place,
overeating and moping,
bleating and hoping,
it's not the end
of the human race.

Beryl Dov

#35. For a permanent solution to easing tension and soothe the rough waters of the world that cause people to go to drugs, drinking, gambling, pornography, overeating, or anything that will give them some temporary relief, you can't beat the support and encouragement of a friend.

Jonathan Anthony Burkett

#36. So whatever you desire to be delivered of - if you really want to be free - pray fervently and daily to Archangel Michael and he will deliver you. If you want to quit smoking or drinking or overeating, if you want to get your life in order so you can serve God better, just

Elizabeth Clare Prophet

#37. Overeating and sedentary behavior could not explain the prevalence of obesity and diabetes in modern societies,

Gary Taubes

#38. The real model for health, however, is more complicated. The real model goes like this: eating low-quality foods leads to overeating and metabolic brokenness, which makes you overweight and sick.

Stefani Ruper

#39. Most of the problems that plague our society - addiction, overeating, crime, domestic violence, prejudice, debt, unwanted pregnancy, educational failure, underperformance at school and work, lack of savings, failure to exercise - are in some degree a failure of self-control.

Roy Baumeister

#40. Only happy people have nightmares, from overeating. For those who live a nightmare reality, sleep is a black hole, lost in time, like death.

Guy Sajer

#41. 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

#42. More men die from overeating than undernourishment.

Nachman Of Breslov

#43. In some cases, people with a body (whose size) they did not long for are victims of having a bank balance (whose size) they longed for.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#44. Almost everyone I've ever met who overeats is doing so on behalf of an old self (a discouraged child, an unpopular teenager, a self conscious young adult) who no longer exists.

Deepak Chopra

#45. We need to not let food master us and take the throne of our lives. We need to make food submit to us, rather than us submitting to food. No one can serve two masters. We cannot serve money and God, and we cannot serve food and God.

Lisa Bedrick

#46. Truth: last week I online shopped too much. Then I ate 2 pounds of jelly beans to feel better about that. In fact, while I was trying to read soul-nourishing things all I could think about was shopping and jellybeans. Points to the monkey mind.

Anna White

#47. If you just stop expecting perfection from everyone and everything, you might see the good stuff outweighs the bad. And then someday you'll look in the mirror and see the same thing. Because the person you're most disappointed in is yourself.

Erin Lange

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

Don DeLillo

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

Kate Wicker

#50. Living for the satisfaction of only one part of my body (my mouth) [is] unholy.

Lisa Morrone

#51. Leave something on your plate ... 'Better to go to waste than to waist

Michael Pollan