Eating Disorders Quotes

Eating Disorders Quote of the day

A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience.

The stronger that women grow, the more prestige, fame, and money is accorded to the display professions: They are held higher and higher above the heads of rising women, for them to emulate.

Aging in women is 'unbeautiful' since women grow more powerful with time, and since the links between generations of women must always be broken.

To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.

Some people who are obsessed with food become gourmet chefs. Others become eating disorders.

I'm learning how to taste everything.

I don’t need anyone else to distract me from myself anymore, like I always thought I would.

You have a history of starving yourself, " he says gently.I lift my head. I meet his gaze. "I have a history that I don't like to talk about.

I've come to realize that hunger feels more like home than any tangible structure ever has, or probably ever will. I know now that creating absence is my way of coping with absence.

There's a weight in the room now, a remembrance of childhood. It sinks like a stone, or a heart, or my weight on a good day.

I’ve memorized the best angles in the bathroom mirror from which to see how badly I’ve disintegrated. I truly do go from sixty to zero.

Most of us are so enthralled with the scary tigers in our minds--our stories of loneliness, rejection, grief--that we don't realize they are in the past. They can't hurt us anymore.

As the helpless vampire watched the transformation, it started screaming. It was still screaming when his rows of razor sharp teeth sank into its throat.

It's the soul that's starving, not the body

Counting calories is not the answer, because eating is not the problem.

I drift into the armpits of strangers, tasting their manic salt, and sleep to forget everything.

Killing yourself slowly is still killing yourself. Wanting to die is not the same as wanting to come home. Recovery is hard work. Not wanting to die is hard work.

We are all a collection of lost causes, stashed here so no one has to see just how wounded we are.

Sometimes, I worry I'm winning.

Your lowest moment and life can be your best if you survive it and learn from it

Somewhere I read that anorexia recovery is more painful for the sufferer than actively engaging in the eating disordered behaviours

I am angry that I starved my brain and that I sat shivering in my bed at night instead of dancing or reading poetry or eating ice cream or kissing a boy...

Anorexia cannot be cured by treating the physical symptoms alone

One of the most dangerous myths surrounding eating disorders is that they are a life sentence.

And that’s the problem. When you’realive, people can hurt you. It’s easier to crawl into a bonecage or a snowdrift of confusion. It’s easier to lock everybodyout.But it’s a lie.

Consent to petting isn't consent to penetration.

To actually accept that you have an eating disorder or a mental health issue is actually a sign of great, great strength. It is not a sign of weakness at all.

As I searched for food perfection, and as I gained weight, I began to realize that the race for perfection in anything was the path to destruction.

Find YOUR Balance.

Let go of toxic control, in order to regain healthy control.

Find Your Balance.

Hold yourself back, or heal yourself back together. You decide.

Recovery is hard. Regret is harder.

Eat like you love your body.

Eating is not a crime. It’s not a moral issue. It’s normal. It’s enjoyable. It just is.

Eating was hard.Breathing was hard. Living was hardest.

I'm just scared I won't run as fast as I did my freshman year, ' I admitted, choking back tears.Coach Woj looked at me for a moment, his eye gentle.'You don't have to.

I need to make myself strong on the inside instead of what is on the outside. I know all of this, but why can’t I put any of it into action? I guess that’s why I am in this place.

I am made of a thousand ghosts, only you can shoot me down.

You are the writer, producer, and director of your own mind programs.

A look of interest, or perhaps doubt, came across his face. "Well, " he said, "I'm sure your bulimia was fulfilling some need.

A huge part of recovery and life -is slowing down and accepting the unKNOWN. This is how you get to KNOW –yourself.

Just because your heart is beating, doesn't mean you're alive.

Most urgently, women's identity must be premised upon our "beauty" so that we will remain vulnerable to outside approval, carrying the vital sensitive organ of self-esteem exposed to the air.

If women cannot eat the same food as men, we cannot experience equal status in the community.

I am forever engaged in a silent battle in my head over whether or not to lift the fork to my mouth, and when I talk myself into doing so, I taste only shame. I have an eating disorder.

Eating disorder recovery becomes possible when you keep making the next right decision over and over. With time, these decisions become automatic.

Even the models we see in magazines wish they could look like their own images.