Quotes
The following are actual quotes written by individuals with what are described as "eating disorders."
"And I am pure now . . ."
*Nothing matters when I'm thin."
"An imperfect body reflects an imperfect person..."
*"The word fat assumed a meaning as deadly as cancer. Getting fat was worse than losing your job, worse than being jilted at the altar, worse than living in a trailer park and growing up without shoes. You need to start watching yourself, my Mom said, before it´s too late."
*"People don´t see me. No one sees me. It´s like being fat. No one takes you seriously. You just don´t exist-you´re so big, you´re not even there."
*"You will be tempted quite frequently, and you will have to choose whether you will enjoy your self hugely in the twenty minutes or so that you will be consuming the excess calories, or whether you will dislike yourself cordially for two or three days, for your lack of willpower."
*"...for every pange of hunger we feel, we can have a double joy, that of knowing we are saving worse pangs in some little children, and that or knowing that for every pang we feel we lose a pound. A pangs a pound the world around we'll say."
*"Every supposed pleasure in sin[eating] will furnish more than it's equivalent of pain[dieting]." *"Food is a hinderance to your progress."
*"Don't do anything today that you'll regret tomorrow."
*"Like a plant, surely, the body can be trained to exist on nothing~to take it's nourishment from the air."
*"I have a rule when I weigh myself; if I've gained, I starve for the rest of the day. But if I've lost, I starve too."
*Nothing tastes as good as thin feels
*"It wasn't simply that I chose not to eat; I was forbidden to. Even thinking about forbidden foods brought punishment. . . . How dare you, this voice inside me would say. You greedy pig. And I was grateful to have someone from hurting. Making me respect myself. Hunger, I thought, is a minuscule price to pay. To be thin, no price is too high. The sky's the limit."
*"I'm not starving myself..I'm perfecting my emptiness."
*"Those 4:00 hunger pains are striking you hard. It's the *fat time* of the day when you're starving and you appetite is telling you to over eat. But whatever you do RESIST THE TEMPTATION!!!"
*" Nothing is so bad that not eating won't cure."
*"Lose everything and what is real will still remain."
"And I am pure now . . ."
*Nothing matters when I'm thin."
"An imperfect body reflects an imperfect person..."
*"The word fat assumed a meaning as deadly as cancer. Getting fat was worse than losing your job, worse than being jilted at the altar, worse than living in a trailer park and growing up without shoes. You need to start watching yourself, my Mom said, before it´s too late."
*"People don´t see me. No one sees me. It´s like being fat. No one takes you seriously. You just don´t exist-you´re so big, you´re not even there."
*"You will be tempted quite frequently, and you will have to choose whether you will enjoy your self hugely in the twenty minutes or so that you will be consuming the excess calories, or whether you will dislike yourself cordially for two or three days, for your lack of willpower."
*"...for every pange of hunger we feel, we can have a double joy, that of knowing we are saving worse pangs in some little children, and that or knowing that for every pang we feel we lose a pound. A pangs a pound the world around we'll say."
*"Every supposed pleasure in sin[eating] will furnish more than it's equivalent of pain[dieting]." *"Food is a hinderance to your progress."
*"Don't do anything today that you'll regret tomorrow."
*"Like a plant, surely, the body can be trained to exist on nothing~to take it's nourishment from the air."
*"I have a rule when I weigh myself; if I've gained, I starve for the rest of the day. But if I've lost, I starve too."
*Nothing tastes as good as thin feels
*"It wasn't simply that I chose not to eat; I was forbidden to. Even thinking about forbidden foods brought punishment. . . . How dare you, this voice inside me would say. You greedy pig. And I was grateful to have someone from hurting. Making me respect myself. Hunger, I thought, is a minuscule price to pay. To be thin, no price is too high. The sky's the limit."
*"I'm not starving myself..I'm perfecting my emptiness."
*"Those 4:00 hunger pains are striking you hard. It's the *fat time* of the day when you're starving and you appetite is telling you to over eat. But whatever you do RESIST THE TEMPTATION!!!"
*" Nothing is so bad that not eating won't cure."
*"Lose everything and what is real will still remain."
