A startling confession for a food writer: all through high school, I struggled with a severe eating disorder. — Jack Monroe Copy Share Image
You deserve the place you have in this world. Do not let the eating disorder take that from you. — Rae Smith Copy Share Image
Eating disorders can be extremely isolating, they can tear you away from your family and your friends and make you feel really… — Zara McDermott Copy Share Image
“Eating disorder sufferers cannot be told to 'pull themselves together', to 'stop doing that' or to 'just eat'.” — Lynn Crilly Copy Share Image
Red flag of the eating disorder: the muffin. Keep your eye on the ladies with the muffins...and sometimes I'll just eat the… — Janeane Garofalo Copy Share Image
Being thin created intense anxiety that I wouldn't be able to maintain that weight for life, and I couldn't. — Jenni Schaefer Copy Share Image
You see a guy thats skinny,What do you think? He works out? On a diet? But matter of fact, you wouldn't have… — Jasmine Laura Copy Share Image
What particularly concerns me is the rise of osteoporosis in young people and its link with eating disorders. — Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall Copy Share Image
She began to be reassured by these pains, tangible symbols of her success in becoming thinner than anyone else. Her only identity… — Steven Levenkron Copy Share Image
“My reflection followed me mercilessly in mirrors, car doors, shop windows. I lived in a world of circus mirrors, the grotesque distortion… — Bethany Pierce Copy Share Image
“Yet because her needs and yearnings are real and pressing, she must find some way to express them: she puts into body… — Sheila M. Reindl Copy Share Image
Bin Laden is living in the United States, and he has blonde hair. He's probably got some type of eating disorder. And… — Sam Seder Copy Share Image
“Clinicians have told me that our emotional is arrested at the age that an eating disorder takes control of our lives. After… — Jenni Schaefer Copy Share Image
I think I just realized that having a problem - an eating disorder - it's not healthy and you can actually die… — Nicole Polizzi Copy Share Image
Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves, we are ready to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To stay in recovery, you must be responsible for finding your own motivation. Remember, motivation may not be easy to come by… — Jenni Schaefer Copy Share Image
“If your boundaries have been injured, you may find that when you are in conflict with someone, you shut down without even… — Henry Cloud Copy Share Image
“So here is what I see when we reclaim the church ladies: a woman loved and free is beautiful. She is laughing… — Sarah Bessey Copy Share Image
“Willow sees her before any of the others. A walking skeleton, the victim of some terrible wasting disease, like something out of… — Julia Hoban Copy Share Image
Stop trying to find something in food that will make you feel better. I used to have eating disorders; I'd binge and… — Richard Simmons Copy Share Image
“As a journalist in Providence, I was particularly drawn toward stories about women's issues: I wrote about discrimination, abortion, violence against women.… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
“Why couldn’t I find one action that would make the need to binge automatically disappear? Because there is no magic action to… — Jenni Schaefer Copy Share Image
“At a certain point, an eating disorder ceases to be "about" any one thing. It stops being about your family, or your… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
Bear in mind, people with eating disorders tend to be both competitive and intelligent. We are incredibly perfectionistic. We often excel in… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
What you persist in doing gets easier. The task hasn't changed, but your ability to do it has increased. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
So much shame goes hand-in-hand with an eating disorder, with addiction of any kind. It's very lonely because you don't know how… — Andi Oliver Copy Share Image
I had a really hard time when I was 16, 17, 18. I started with the eating disorder in high school. — Zoe Kravitz Copy Share Image
“A look of interest, or perhaps doubt, came across his face. "Well," he said, "I'm sure your bulimia was fulfilling some need.” — Kathryn Hansen Copy Share Image
I truly believe the eating disorder is gone. The discovery of what was at the bottom of it lifted me, and I… — Catherine Oxenberg Copy Share Image
Food can become such a point of anxiety - not because it's food, but just because you have anxiety. That's how eating… — Vanessa Carlton Copy Share Image
The stuffing/puking/stuffing/puking/stuffing/puking didn't make her skinny, it made her cry. — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
“To actually accept that you have an eating disorder or a mental health issue is actually a sign of great, great strength.… — Nigel Owens Copy Share Image
I want to be the girl who has a positive influence on people's lifestyle. I don't want to be the girl who… — Lauren Alaina Copy Share Image
Having struggled with food issues and eating disorders myself, particularly when I was younger, I've long been interested in using it within… — Jane Green Copy Share Image
“The good news, however, is that, also contrary to popular belief, full and lasting recovery from an eating disorder is possible.” — Lynn Crilly Copy Share Image
“One of the most dangerous myths surrounding eating disorders is that they are a life sentence.” — Lynn Crilly Copy Share Image
“With Ed, I always pushed away the good and only heard the bad. Today, I let in the good.” — Jenni Schaefer Copy Share Image
I have an eating disorder. I'm about to eat dis order of pizza, dis order of fries and dis order of nuggets. — Priyanka Copy Share Image
BULLYING CAN LEAD TO: 1.)Depression 2.)Self-harm 3.)Eating Disorders 4.)Suicidal Thoughts 5.)S U I C I D A L — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Anorexia is, without doubt, a serious eating disorder, but there is a hell of a lot of mainstream disordered eating going on… — Emma Woolf Copy Share Image
