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I was anorexic. I was in hell. Now I eat what I want, and I'm still a model. So you see, it works.
I spent two yours of my life being anorexic, but I would never dream of throwing up - my God!
I again invoke my favorite analogy for eating disorders: abusive lovers. And what do you do when someone is in an abusive relationship? You don't allow visitation rights, weekly dates. You don't put them in the vicinity of or let the abuser flirt with them. You keep them the fuck away.
The subject of eating disorders is very common, and it is an abuse that affects all the people around the sick person, just like alcoholism. Family and friends also become co-addicted.
Dieting: A system of starving yourself to death so you can live a little longer.
To be anorexic ... she thought, amounted to wanting to shed yourself of some of the imperfect mosaic of pieces that made you who you were. She could understand that now for, maybe underneath that desquamated self you would locate a new version.
Religious fasting is the best way to cure an anorexic's spirit: in heaven her condition will be normal.
Our society's strong emphasis on dieting and self-image can sometimes lead to eating disorders. We know that more than 5 million Americans suffer from eating disorders, most of them young women.
I tried being anorexic for four hours, and then I was like, I need some bagels.
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.
Girls developed eating disorders when our culture developed a standard of beauty that they couldn't obtain by being healthy. When unnatural thinness became attractive, girls did unnatural things to be thin.
Eating constitutes the greatest obstacle to self-control; it gives rise to indolence.
I dare anybody to look at me and say I'm anorexic. I'm so totally not.
Anorexics never have boyfriends ... That's one way to know you don't have anorexia, if you have a boyfriend.
I've experienced the tabloids when I had anorexia.
Somewhere I read that anorexia recovery is more painful for the sufferer than actively engaging in the eating disordered behaviours
I wasn't strong enough to have an eating disorder. 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.'
Some people are born skinny, and that's just the way it is. You can't point a finger at them and say they're ill or anorexic. It isn't fair to people born that way.
Putting it another way: A group of fat teenagers who lost 25 percent of their body weight were in worse health than teenagers with anorexia. It
Amor deliria nervosa. The deadliest of all deadly things.
I'm not anorexic. I'm from Texas. Are there people from Texas that are anorexic? I've never heard of one. And that includes me.
I was anorexic in the '60s and '70s, although it wasn't called anorexia then. I thought people would be nicer to me if I looked very small and delicate, so food wasn't high on my agenda. But it is now.
I don't want to feel I'm responsible for anorexia across the country.
When I was 19 years old, I came down with anorexia. I had it for about a year before it became public. And it had a lot to do with my self-esteem.
I was bulimic and anorexic for a while, just hating my body. As an actress, I was never thin enough, never pretty enough. My boobs weren't big enough.
privation is the cause of appetite
Eating disorders can have serious medical and psychological consequences which, left unchecked, can kill. Parents should address this issue and ask their children to discuss how they feel about themselves.
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.
I am, uh ... a 6 foot tall woman, I feel like I'm a healthy size, I'm not anorexic; and I feel that people who aren't anorexic are punished ... for not being anorexic.
I almost lost my best friend to anorexia. I am lending my voice as an entertainer, a mom, and a friend because I want to bring great awareness to this cause.
At the time, nobody knew what it was. It had no name. When everything else is out of your control, you can control your eating. You end up cutting a lot of things off. Nothing reaches you. I was very happy then - that was the oddity.
Yet because her needs and yearnings are real and pressing, she must find some way to express them: she puts into body what she cannot yet put into words. Her eating disorder serves as her voice, her attempt to express and meet her needs and desires without directly asking for anything.
No appetite. No sensation in a dry stomach. No desire. No orchids sweet enough to taste. Not the sort of woman to eat sandwiches on a bus. At least not the sort of woman who would eat in the dark. Not anymore.
(Poem on anorexic): The only way to escape the history of styles is not to have a body.
Hunger (for things) is the supreme disease.
[The press] said to me yesterday 'How does it feel to be called anorexic?' and I had no idea that I was. I'm not saying there aren't people in the film industry that suffer from it, because I am sure that there are. But I'm quite sure I don't have it.
A stomach accustomed to hunger is satisfied with very little.
I was anorexic-bulimic when I was 16-17. It was a top secret that time, but these things always are.
There are studies that tell us that stress and lack of self-image, lack of self-esteem, severe dieting, binge dieting and binge eating can also be very damaging to a body and bring on various kinds of abnormalities.
Somewhere along the line I'd lost the will not to eat.
I unwittingly became sort of this anorexia spokeswoman.
If I am anorexic, I'd be in the hospital! I am tall. I am 5 foot 9 inches, 175 cms tall. I am lean, I am active and athletic. There are so many women who are naturally lean, and so am I. I have been like this for the longest time.
The term "starvation diet" refers to 900 calories a day. I was on one-third of a starvation diet. What do you call that? One word that comes to my mind: "suicide.
I can't eat. I can never eat when I'm in the depths of despair.
Obesity is a mental state, a disease brought on by boredom and disappointment.
They have eating dogs for the anorexic now.
I'm the kind of person, if, if I have a day that is nerve-wracking, or my week has been bad or something's going down, I won't eat. Some people eat, I don't eat. And it shows in my physical frame.
Illness isn't the only thing that spoils the appetite.
Sobriety is love of health, or inability to eat much.
Hunger not to have, but to beHunger-- John Dewey
One of the most dangerous myths surrounding eating disorders is that they are a life sentence.
Love never dies of starvation, but often of indigestion.
Eating disorders are serious mental illnesses, not lifestyle choices.
All my life I've had a weight problem. As a child, I loved to eat. I would hide from my mother and drink whole cans of condensed milk in my room.
My Anorexic Ex was so skinny she didn't give head, she gave skull
The anoretic operates under the astounding illusion that she can escape the flesh, and, by association, the realm of emotions.
For days on end, I would hardly speak, and when I did only the vilest sort of gibberish would spout forth. I became morose and fat. Unapproachable, except when eating - and then only by waiters.
Tormented by an unworldly hunger, yet not knowing how to satisfy it.
Inadequate nutrition can lead to terrible health consequences, both physical and emotional.
Hunger can change everything you ever thought you knew about yourself.
I need to eat a lot; otherwise, I feel faint. I get in the worst moods if I don't eat.
When I see someone who is starved, they don't look alert. They don't have boundless energy. If you're too skinny, it looks like you're near death.
The more people talk about eating disorders, the more people get the real story about what they're like.
I've decided that perhaps I'm bulimic and just keep forgetting to purge.
You have an eating disorder if diet and food negatively impact your life and add stress where natural calm energy would usually be.
Some starve themselves of what's essential to the soul and later question why it feels like they're dying.
Many people submit to excessive appetites without realizing that they do not need to eat so much food.
If you're happy, you eat. If you're sad, you eat. You lose a job, you eat. You get a job, you eat. It's, you know, it's addiction,
The body is like an elaborate metaphor. One may be able to taste and not swallow, like the anorexic, or to swallow and not integrate, like the bulimic or obese.
Privation is the source of appetite.
Sometimes it takes a wake-up call, doesn't it, to alert us to the fact that we're hurrying through our lives instead of actually living them; that we're living the fast life instead of the good life. And I think, for many people, that wake-up call takes the form of an illness.
Hunger makes a fool of a man.
I almost died because of obesity. It make me cannot breath when sleep at night.
I had lost the habit of eating for pleasure and ate only to satisfy hunger
Our bodies are these collections of appetites that veer out of control and habits that drag us down paths we don't want to travel.
There are less than 1 per cent of anorexic girls, but there more than 30 per cent of girls in France - I don't know about England - that are much, much overweight. And it is much more dangerous and very bad for the health.
It is true I gained muscular vigour, but with it a prodigious appetite, which I was compelled to indulge, and consequently increased in weight, until my kind old friend advised me to forsake the exercise.
This isn't one of those rare diseases that we don't have the solution for. We know how to fix hunger.
incurable lover of the grotesque
Mix an anorexic body with a heart made of pure fire and you are going to go with a savagery that's hard to explain.
The times in my life when I've been my thinnest, I've been a walking psycho wreck. Forget the fact that I was basically starving myself; skinny was usually due to some kind of loss. Death. Rejection. Divorce.
When I was a young girl, I lost a lot of weight over one summer - involuntarily - and was just really depressed and sad. There was nothing I could do to gain weight. I would look in the mirror and call myself disgusting every day.
after-meal sleepiness.
Some people who are obsessed with food become gourmet chefs. Others become eating disorders.
To anyone who thinks eating disorders are something rich, bored white girls do to get attention, I bid you bite me. I have frequent, intense, inappropriate outbursts of anger over the lies little girls are told about what is beautiful.
Appetite comes with eating.
A little bit of anorexia, a little bit of bulimia. I'm not totally OK now but I don't think any woman is.
It is almost certain that excess in eating is the cause of almost all the diseases of the body, but its effects on the soul are even more disastrous.
I get miserable if I don't eat.
Death from hunger happened a hundred yards from death from obesity.
Life is a tragedy of nutrition
Desire to be thin grows bigger and bigger. As does my appetite.
Obesity is the result of a loss of self-control. Indeed, loss of self-control might be said to be the defining social (or anti-social) characteristic of our age: public drunkenness, excessive gambling, promiscuity and common-or-garden rudeness are all examples of our collective loss of self-control.
Oh my God, I used to get heartburn and all sorts of indigestion and stuff because I didn't feel well. And you know, I sit a lot because I write, and I gained a whole bunch of weight. My vanity just got to me, and I was like, 'I've got to do something!'
If someone is starving, excessively exercising or using purging behaviors, then we know they are in a high-risk place for turning on the psychiatric illnesses,
Anorexia taught me to love life and to realise that starving yourself to death is a bloody waste of time. It's awful, and it hurts so many people around you. It's a terribly selfish thing to do.
I'm a food addict, that's my downfall.
The disease. Amor deliria nervosa. You can't catch it from me. I'm safe." Alex told me that very same thing, once. I push the memories of him away, willing them deep into the darkness. "And
Denial of one appetite sharpens the others.
I always had a weight issue since I was a young kid.