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I remember this moment in particular because it was the beginning of the rest of my life. So far, that life has included many regrets, most of them related to diets.
A healthy diet should be all about what you can eat, not about all the things you can’t eat.
Cindy Webster: [all the girls are discussing dieting] How about you, Nat? Are you gonna try to be pencil thin? Natalie Green: Who wants to be a skinny pencil? I'd rather be a happy Magic Marker!
All in all, diet soda is by no means a healthy choice—shocking, I know—even when compared to regular soda.
All I know is that I’ve never felt better, perhaps because my central nervous system is no longer firing hunger pain signals, or any other kinds of signals for that matter.
For many women who have struggled with disordered eating most of their lives, there is nothing more terrifying than the concept of eating whatever they want.
Our modern society also has a ritual for adolescent girls to mark their entrance into womanhood. It is called dieting.
I just I'm gonna have to get half a portion of food or, like, a side salad so I look good naked and the whole time I'm gonna be thinking about how hungry I am and how I can't wait for him to finish so I can hurry up and pick up a burrito.
Me: I'm watching my weight. Want to split a candy bar? Wife: Sure. [30 seconds later] Me: Want to split six more?
Every day you eat is every day you have to work out.
But if you pick up every other magazine, it is the peanut butter diet, or the cabbage soup diet, and then you go to the radio and you hear that you can drink some solution and you will lose weight overnight. It just does not work that way!
There's a list of foods I can't have in the house. Peanut butter, can't have that in the house. Potato chips, can't have that in the house. Random little small mini candy bars, don't even think about it. I just have to watch everything. I have to stay between 1500 and 1600 calories a day. That's it.
No tricks, gimmicks, special pills, special potions, special equipment. All it takes is desire and will.
When you raise women to believe that we are insignificant, that we are broken, that we are sick, that the only cure is starvation and restraint and smallness; when you pit women against one another, keep us shackled by shame and hunger, obsessing over our flaws, rather than our power and potential;…
The ‘perfect body’ is a lie. I believed in it for a long time, and I let it shape my life, and shrink it – my real life, populated by my real body. Don’t let fiction tell you what to do. In the omnidirectional orgy gardens of Vlaxnoid, no one cares about your arm flab.
My wife wanted me to add a disclaimer to my book that said 'No one should eat like this.' There are people who think I'm a proponent of unhealthy eating. I'm like the opposite of Michelle Obama.
Weight isn’t neutral. A woman’s body isn’t neutral. A woman’s body is everyone’s business but her own. Even in our attempts to free one another, we were still trying to tell one another what to want and what to do. It is terrible to tell people to try to be thinner; it is also terrible to tell them…
I am 41, I would say. I am 41 and accomplished and a beloved wife and a good mother and a hard worker and a contributor to society and I am learning how to eat a goddamned raisin. How did this all go so wrong for me?
About two years ago, I decided to yield to what every statistic I knew was telling me and stop trying to lose weight at all. I decided to stop dieting, but when I did, I realized I couldn’t. I didn’t know what or how to eat. I couldn’t fathom planning my food without thinking first about its ability…