Binge Eating Quotes

• No matter what we weigh, those of us who are compulsive eaters have anorexia of the soul. We refuse to take in what sustains us. We live lives of deprivation. And when we can't stand it any longer, we binge.

  Geneen Roth

  Live Life, Anorexia, Soul

  Geneen Roth (2011). “Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• Binge eating is another eating disorder that people really don't realize is a problem.

  Demi Lovato

  People, Eating Disorder, Problem

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Disciplined governments do not engage in the economic equivalent of binge eating followed by crash dieting.

  Peter Blair Henry

  Government, Dieting, Eating

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• There ARE people who won't customarily eat an entire row of cookies, or hear food calling their name from other rooms, or who don't grind up food in the garbage disposal for fear of eating it, or get it back out of the garbage so they could eat it. Of course, my binge eating was just a cover-up for the larger issue: Trying to fill the emptiness

  Sark

  Garbage Disposal, Issues, Names

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• 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.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Self Esteem, Stress, Dieting

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I'm on a constant yo-yo of health. I will go a week eating incredibly clean, but then I'll follow that up with a month's worth of binge eating. Then I hit the gym and eat clean, and then I mix it up with core exercises, yoga, Pilates, and sitting on an incline bench while checking my phone.

  Josh McDermitt

  Yoga, Exercise, Phones

  "Origin Series: Mad Men And The Walking Dead actor Josh McDermitt". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Sometimes it's binge eating as a method to handle emotional pain. I'll also write very sporadically - music, lyrics - to identify the problem. There are a few cathartic processes I've alternated randomly. There's no default. Each emotional experience elicits a different, possibly new response.

  Brendan Dooling

  Pain, Writing, Emotional

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