SO GOOD QUOTES

Category: EATING DISORDERS

  • Our desires are possible to gratify, but impossible to satisfy.

    —Jonathan Bailey, The Eternal Journey

  • Don’t aim to get full. Be satisfied.

    6 Steps to Stop Overeating: Mindful Eating Applied

  • “The misery of calorie restriction is well documented, but what people rarely mention is that it’s also a bit fun. How much hunger can I tolerate? How much joy can I withhold? What a perverse pleasure, to be in charge of your own pain.”

    — Sarah Hepola, Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget

  • “I honestly have no idea what happened. One day I was just done with it.”

    —Julia E Hubbel

  • When we feel down or anxious, our aptitude for self-control is diminished, making us more prone to making bad decisions. Sadness, it seems, leads to more impatient thoughts, and a desire for immediate reward at the expense of greater future gains.

    How to fake a shopping buzz without spending any money
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  • St Macedonius the Anchorite, in order to heal a woman afflicted with bulimia (though eating thirty chickens a day, she could not by surfeit extinguish her appetite but hungered for still more’) came and offered prayers, and by placing his hand over water, tracing the sign of salvation [the Sign of the Cross], and telling her to drink, healed the disease. And so completely did he blunt the excess of her appetite that thereafter a small piece of chicken each day satisfied her need for food. 

    Mental Disorders & Spiritual Healing: Teachings from the Early Christian East
    Jean-Claude Larchet

  • “She ate unconsciously. She ate to go unconscious.”

    —Jan Chozen Bays MD, Mindful Eating: A Guide to Rediscovering a Healthy and Joyful Relationship with Food

  • “When I fast I feel fine and I actually don’t even think about food that much. But when I allow myself food I literally can’t function because I keep thinking about food and what I’m gonna eat in the day.”

    —Guest_Slender Man_*

  • There is an empty space in many of us that gnaws at our ribs and cannot be filled by any amount of food. There is a hunger for something, and we never know quite what it is, only that it is a hunger, so we eat.

    —Marya Hornbacher, Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia

  • Dear Father, I have no intention of making a peace pact between my body and my soul, and neither do I intend to hold back. Therefore, allow me to tame my body by not altering my diet; I will not stop for the rest of my life, until there is no more life left. You should not think that my body is so mortified and weak as it seems; it acts this way so that I should not demand the debt it contracted in the world, when it liked pleasure…Oh my body, why do you not help me to serve my creator and redeemer? Why are you not as quick to obey as you were to disobey His commands? Do not lament, do not cry; do not pretend to be half dead.  You will bear the weight that I place on your shoulders, all of it…I not only wish to abstain from bodily food but I wish to die a thousand times a day, were it possible, in this mortal life of mine.

    SAINT MARGARET OF CORTONA, IN A LETTER TO HER CONFESSOR ORDERING HER TO EAT. FEBRUARY 22,1297, OF STARVATION