Category: EATING DISORDERS

  • Clinging is a product of a scarcity mindset. It’s a belief that joy is limited, that there’s very little of it to go around, and that you never know when, or if, you’ll get more of it. Savoring, on the other hand, is the manifestation of an abundance mindset. Savoring acknowledges that joy is fleeting, but seeks to capture as much of it as possible, while trusting that joy will come back again.

    ARE YOU CLINGING OR SAVORING?
    by Ingrid Fetell Lee

  • 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
    Katie Beck

  • 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