Scott Abel Quotes

#1. The best kind of onion soup is the simplest kind.

Ambrose Bierce

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

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#3. Our seeing is sexual initially.

Frederick Lenz

#4. I could be the only sentient being in the universe. If I'm even that much. Because I don't know if there is such a thing as a reliable narrator.

Peter Watts

#5. They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains," he remarked with a smile. "It's a very bad definition, but it does apply to detective work.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#6. A person can allow a tyrannical world to bully them. One can kowtow to the demands of petty tormentors; blithely accept being the drummer boy for other people's private parade. Alternatively, a person can seek to obtain autonomy over their life.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#7. You stop accepting yourself and stop connecting three realms of the triangle of awareness within you. You fail to realize that this is mistaken notion that "a lighter you is a happier you" isn't making you happier at all.

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#8. The fully planned economy, so far from being unpopular, is warmly regarded by those who know it best.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#9. Real wellness habits transcend being told what to eat. For

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#10. You can't sculpt a pebble.

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#11. Diet/food/eating should NEVER be the means by which you objectify yourself, disconnect from yourself, judge yourself, or worst of all, reject and hate yourself.

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#12. The security (emotional security, spiritual security, intrapersonal security) that you think being thin or lean will provide you is just an illusion. Leanness and weight-loss will not deliver these securities to you.

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#13. The message of the diet-industry is that you can't possibly be spiritually and personally fulfilled unless you are leaner and lighter.

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#14. The hormonal and metabolic environment of the body within which calories enter determines how your body deals with those calories.

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#15. Power is like a knife. It can be used to cut bread to share with your neighbor or stab you in the back.

Sadiqua Hamdan

#16. Once again, when you fully understand the neural circuitry of the brain's reward center to seek survival and emotional rewards, it becomes easier to see how diets are part of the problem, and by themselves are never the solution.

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#17. Think about it. The industry generates billions of dollars of profit and revenue each year. They do so by selling answers. But if they had the answers, then these so-called answers would just be copied and pasted and handed out, and the industry itself would crumble.

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