India Arie Quotes

I can be an emotional eater.

Ever since I was little, I loved to eat. I started eating when I wasn't hungry. My weight has always been up and down.

Food became my coping mechanism and I've never been able to break that cycle.

Compulsive eating is an emotional problem, and we use an emotional approach to its solution.

I was compulsively overeating when I was eight years old.

A lot of people who are overweight - not everyone, but a lot of people - are dealing with issues such as emotional issues, stress issues. They become stress eaters and emotional eaters.

Over-eating is the addiction choice of carers, and that's why it's come to be regarded as the lowest-ranking of all the addictions.

I always think I am one of the millions and millions of people that struggles with an addiction to food. I don't know how to relax, that's my problem.

I used food as a coping mechanism for many, many years, and it was my best friend for a long time.

I thought that I had a really healthy relationship with food, and I went home to my parents' house for a week because I cut my foot, and was recovering. I just ate loads, ate family meals, went along with group activities. And I realized how unhealthy my relationship actually is with food.

I genuinely have no eating problem. I eat so much food. I think there's a lot of girls who are similar to me.

You kind of did fight for food, so I filled up my plate. My dad would make us finish it, and I'd sit there crying because I'd have to finish all that food. I think that forced my stomach to stretch.

I became hugely overweight and then hated myself because it was a form of self-abuse, something over which I had no control. I think the thing compulsive over-eaters want to achieve is that stuffed-full Christmas afternoon feeling.

I was a mindless eater. I ate for comfort. I also ate out of boredom and habit.

I'm, like, a compulsive eater. I'm going to be so fat when I'm older, it's ridiculous.

You know how you feel when you get full? Well, I don't get full. I can eat a lot. Mike and I were in Italy for 10 days, and I put on 8 pounds. So in real life, I have to make sure I'm not eating just to eat.

I'm sure that my compulsive eating habits began when I was a baby.

I'm a fat kid on the inside. I love food so much, and I fluctuate about 25 to 30 pounds between movies. I feel like I have to do a chess movie that requires very little movement at some point, just so I can eat pizza and play chess on the beach all day.

I struggle because I love food and sometimes I can't stop eating.

Well, I think probably the main reason people overeat is stress.

Eating when you're not hungry and taking in that amount of food is exhausting.

The evening is really hard for me. I have to force myself not to eat.

My body believes a famine is imminent and has begun stocking up on provisions. These supplies are being stored around my waistline. I've tried explaining to my stomach that this is entirely unnecessary: I've never once, not even when I was in college and more broke than the E.U., done any actual starving.

If you tell me I can't eat something, I'll obsess over it and end up overeating!

As a kid, I'd eat at my mother's house, then go down the road to my girlfriend's and eat, and then sometimes go to my friend's house and eat again. I could gain five pounds in a day. In a week, there wouldn't be a scale to weigh me.