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Do I want to die from the inside out or the outside in?
In the entirety of my life, I have never had an eating disorder.
You dont have to have an eating disorder to be happy or successful.
Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.
Eating disorders are serious mental illnesses, not lifestyle choices.
He doesn't see my breasts or my waist or my hips. He only sees the nightmare.
I don't believe you have to have eating disorders and mental illness to screw up.
Binge eating is another eating disorder that people really don't realize is a problem.
The stuffing/puking/stuffing/puking/stuffing/puking didn't make her skinny, it made her cry.
Some people who are obsessed with food become gourmet chefs. Others become eating disorders.
We turn skeletons into goddesses and look to them as if they might teach us how not to need.
You deserve the place you have in this world. Do not let the eating disorder take that from you.
If I like myself at this weight, then this is what I'm going to be. I don't have an eating disorder.
The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
What you persist in doing gets easier. The task hasn't changed, but your ability to do it has increased.
The more people talk about eating disorders, the more people get the real story about what they're like.
It’s like he has this power over me—like I have an eating disorder and he’s a package of Oreo Double Stuff cookies.
Let's call a spade a spade - a lot of times when you are a vegetarian it is a just not very effective eating disorder.
Eating disorders, body dysmorphia and a general dissatisfaction with one's life and body seems to ail too many young people.
When people have eating disorders, they can't actually see what they truly look like because they're so clouded with their emotions.
Eating disorders are like a gun that's formed by genetics, loaded by a culture and family ideals, and triggered by unbearable distress.
Food can become such a point of anxiety - not because it's food, but just because you have anxiety. That's how eating disorders develop.
Red flag of the eating disorder: the muffin. Keep your eye on the ladies with the muffins... and sometimes I'll just eat the muffin top.
I suffered from eating disorders when I was just a kid. I did not like me or the way I looked. But back then, you could not tell anyone.
It's like, at the end, there's this surprise quiz: Am I proud of me? I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth what I paid?
I was like 'No!' I've never had body issues, I've never had an eating disorder. I've never had to go on a diet and that's because of Weight Watchers.
During the investigation evidence of the vulnerability of women in the modelling profession was startling and models are at high risk of eating disorders.
Because I make films about eating disorders and sexual assault, people always come up to me and are like, "Are you okay?" like I'm a broken-down shell of a woman.
An eating disorder is serious and it’s a disease, and I don’t think you can lightly say that someone has a disease unless they’re openly telling you that they do.
There have been so many stories about alcoholism and drugs. Eating disorders are also a form of abuse, but rarely a theme in feature films that aren't documentaries.
I tried to go anorexic for a good three hours. I ate ice and celery, but that’s not even anorexic. And I quit. I was like, 'Ma, can you make me a sandwich? Like, immediately.'
She began to be reassured by these pains, tangible symbols of her success in becoming thinner than anyone else. Her only identity was being "the skinniest." She had to feel it.
You can have a disordered relationship with food, but to have an eating disorder is indicative of a mental illness, which I think needs treatment and recognition in a different way.
I think I just realized that having a problem - an eating disorder - it's not healthy and you can actually die from that. I realized it's not worth it and you just need to be healthy.
Anorexia, you starve yourself. Bulimia, you binge and purge. You eat huge amounts of food until you're sick and then you throw up. And anorexia, you just deny yourself. It's about control.
I want them [people] to feel open and comfortable to share the messy, dirty, shameful parts of themselves. Those are the parts I wanna see. And that eating disorders aren't just about "being thin."
I have a fierce eating disorder that has survived even bariatric surgery. I got even fatter after that! Hey, maybe fat people are just trying to get closer to others, did anybody ever that of that?!
When I was dealing with the eating disorder, I wanted to look like the stick-thin models, but then I started reading fitness magazines and seeing these girls with great bodies that weren’t too muscular.
An eating disorder epidemic suggests that love and disgust are being jointly marketed, as it were; that wherever the proposition might first have come from, the unacceptability of the female body has been disseminated culturally.
Women with body image or eating disorders are not a special category; [they’re] just more extreme in their response to a culture that emphasizes thinness and impossible standards of appearance for women instead of individuality and health.
Food is a complicated subject for me. Food brings joy, satisfaction, and conflict. Eating disorders plague my family. Their consequences have been painful, expensive, violent, and deadly. You haven't lived till you've watched a woman die of starvation.
Their [those with eating disorders'] task is to rescue themselves from a drive that is destroying them. Food embodies the false values that their own bodies refuse to assimilate, by which I mean that their bodies become edemic, bloated, allergic, or resort to vomiting the poison out. The unconscious body, and certainly the conscious body, will not tolerate the negative mother.
This is the very boring part of eating disorders, the aftermath. When you eat and hate that you eat. And yet of course you must eat. You don’t really entertain the notion of going back. You, with some startling new level of clarity, realize that going back would be far worse than simply being as you are. This is obvious to anyone without an eating disorder. This is not always obvious to you.
I'd like to have finally answered the anorexic question so profoundly and definitively, that would be the end of it. The only reason I ever brought it up in the first place is because when I was young, I read a lot of misinformation about eating disorders. But because I picked the wrong magazine to tell my story to, I wished I'd never said anything. It was totally sensationalized and that's been a real drag. I felt terribly violated.