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“I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.”
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“Every weight loss program, no matter how positively it’s packaged, whispers to you that you’re not right. You’re not good enough. You’re unacceptable and you need to be fixed.”
― Read My Hips: How I Learned to Love My Body, Ditch Dieting, and Live Large
― Read My Hips: How I Learned to Love My Body, Ditch Dieting, and Live Large
“Healthy emotions come in all sizes. Healthy minds come in all sizes. And healthy bodies come in all sizes.”
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“Weight and body oppression is oppressive to everyone. When you live in a society that says that one kind of body is bad and and other is good, those with “goodâ€� bodies constantly fear that their bodies will go “badâ€�, and those with “badâ€� bodies are expected feel shame and do everything they can to have “goodâ€� bodies. In the process, we torture our bodies, and do everything from engage in disordered eating to invasive surgery to make ourselves okay. Nobody wins in this kind of struggle.”
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“A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience." -Naomi Wolf”
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“The diet industry has a deep interest in the failure of dieters -- if everyone got skinny, they'd go out of business.”
― Stop Dieting Now: 25 Reasons to Stop, 25 Ways to Heal
― Stop Dieting Now: 25 Reasons to Stop, 25 Ways to Heal

“Spokespeople sell women the Iron Maiden and name her "Health": if public discourse were really concerned with women's health, it would turn angrily upon this aspect of the beauty myth.”
― The Beauty Myth
― The Beauty Myth

“Dieting was cruel; it was an abuse of human rights. Yes, that's what it was, and she should not allow herself to be manipulated in this way. She stopped herself. Thinking like that was nothing more than coming up with excuses for breaking the diet. Mma Ramotswe was made of sterner stuff than that, and so she persisted.”
― Blue Shoes and Happiness
― Blue Shoes and Happiness

“Clean eating necessarily implies that any other form of eating â€� and consequently the eater of it â€� is dirty or impure and thus bad, and it's not simply a way of shaming and persecuting others, but leads to that self-shaming and self-persecution that is forcibly detrimental to true healthy eating.”
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“I don't want to wake up dead tommorrow and realize I didn't even try.
Luck my ass! Luck is just another word for hard work and an open mind.”
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Luck my ass! Luck is just another word for hard work and an open mind.”
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“It's all very Italian (and decidedly un-American): to insist that doing the right thing is the most pleasurable thing, and that the act of consumption might be an act of addition rather than subtraction.”
― The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
― The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

“Some people who have been working out regularly for months or even years are still out of shape because the number of cheat days they have in a week exceeds six.”
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“In the very same books that tell us to locate our self-worth not in how we look but in who we are and how we feel â€� there is a consistent, entrenched fear of fatness.”
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“A diet is no good if it works for just a week or ten days or a month. It has to be something you can live with (apologies to Shakespeare) tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow.”
― The Elephant in the Room: One Fat Man's Quest to Get Smaller in a Growing America
― The Elephant in the Room: One Fat Man's Quest to Get Smaller in a Growing America

“The authorities who insist that abstaining from carbohydrates is an unsustainable lifestyle once again typically do so from the perspective of lean people whose primary fuel happens to be carbohydrates and whose bodies can tolerate carbohydrates without accumulating excess fat. From their perspective, a program that requires living without carbohydrates appears doomed to fail. Why would anyone do it, if another way existed that allowed for the occasional consumption of cinnamon buns and pasta (in moderation, not too much)? But for many of us, there may be no other way. Lean folks aren’t like us. They don’t get fat when they eat carbohydrates; they may not hunger for them just by thinking about them. They have a choice to live with carbohydrates or not. We don’t. Not if we want to be lean and as healthy as we can be.”
― The Case for Keto: Rethinking Weight Control and the Science and Practice of Low-Carb/High-Fat Eating
― The Case for Keto: Rethinking Weight Control and the Science and Practice of Low-Carb/High-Fat Eating

“I've heard of a crustacean that eats just the corneas of sharks until the sharks are blinded, and butterflies in the Amazon that drink the tears of turtles---yet these animals aren't demons, they're just animals, and many people believe them to have been made the way they are by God. Of course, there are also animals that survive on blood; and others that crack open eggs and eat the young, or the runny yolk inside; and others that eat their own young; and, then, humans too eat meat and eggs and blood, only in specific ways, in specific shapes, with specific herbs, and these animals and humans are not demons.”
― Woman, Eating
― Woman, Eating

“Diets don't really work & can be destructive, but if you get healthy overall (mind, body, spirit) then your weight balances naturally.”
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“The restrictive eating inherent in diets treats the body as a separate, inferior part of the human being to be manipulated as desired by the mind, as though the body and mind are in an adversarial relationship.”
― Body: or, How Hope Confronts Her Shadow and Calls the Flutter Girl to Flight
― Body: or, How Hope Confronts Her Shadow and Calls the Flutter Girl to Flight
“The bonus cookies in the grocery basket could be considered -irrational- as they require extra cost and effort to purchase and do not align with goals for a balanced diet, yet eating the cookies will generate a positive reward.”
― A Guide to the Psychology of Eating
― A Guide to the Psychology of Eating
“There is convincing evidence that vegetarians have lower rates of coronary heart disease, largely explained by low LDL cholesterol, probable lower rales of hypertension and diabetes mellitus, and lower prevalence of obesity. Overall, their cancer rates appear to be moderately lower than others living in the same communities, and life expectancy appears to be greater.”
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“I can't speak to whether vegetarianism is healthy. But as Alcott realized, it offers something that other diets cannot: an identity. Once can be a vegetarian, while most other diets are something one can do. He recognized that a diet wasn't merely how one ate, but how one lived.”
― Asking for a Friend: Three Centuries of Advice on Life, Love, Money, and Other Burning Questions from a Nation Obsessed
― Asking for a Friend: Three Centuries of Advice on Life, Love, Money, and Other Burning Questions from a Nation Obsessed

“Diets are bad news, and yet we still see commercials for them every day on television and in magazines. You might be wondering, if diets aren't good for us, why do people keep telling us to go on them? The short answer is money. People who make commercials and sell diets make lots of money by convincing people to buy their products even when they don't need them.”
― Celebrate Your Body (and Its Changes, Too!): The Ultimate Puberty Book for Girls
― Celebrate Your Body (and Its Changes, Too!): The Ultimate Puberty Book for Girls

“My mother set her fork down against the checkered oilcloth. She only ever ate half of any meal set before her (The secret of my success, she used to say, scraping the leftovers into the garbage can)...”
― The Ballerinas
― The Ballerinas

“It didn't last. She read a bit in some evening paper about proper dieting, and she's gone all lettucey. Nuts, too. That's why I'm here. There's a filthy beverage you drink for breakfast instead of coffee. I thought not, so I cleared out.”
― The Unfinished Clue
― The Unfinished Clue
“Another cognitive fallacy, -dose insensitivity-, also was observed among participants studied by Rozin and colleagues. Dose insensitivity refers to our tendency to evaluate a food as equally healthy or harmful, regardless of how much was consumed. That is, something is harmful in large amounts, it if often viewed as similarly harmful in small amounts. Dose insensitivity undermines moderation and encourages adoption of fad diets that rely on strict adherence to or elimination of foods or sometimes entire food groups.”
― A Guide to the Psychology of Eating
― A Guide to the Psychology of Eating
“Eating behavior is predicted by consideration of immediate consequences, whereas exercising behavior is related to consideration of future consequences. Compensatory health beliefs are the expectation that engaging in healthy behaviors can compensate for unhealthy actions.”
― A Guide to the Psychology of Eating
― A Guide to the Psychology of Eating
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