Jean Nidetch Quotes

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

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.

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

Here's how it is: I feel guilty about every single bite of food that goes into my mouth.

Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.

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 can be an emotional eater.

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

Between '06 and '09, I dealt with pain by eating. And I was like, 'Oh, crap, eating makes you gain weight!'

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

I was greedy and ate in that unselfconscious way teenagers do, constantly grazing and eating when I wasn't hungry.

You have to find a balance with food in your life - you can't take out food. It can be absolutely terrifying.

Food compulsion isn't a character disorder; it's a chemical disorder.

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

If I was having a bad day, eating was like self-medicating. But if you abuse food, you still have to use that substance that you abuse every day. You have to learn to use it responsibly.

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

I am a glutton. I'll eat whatever is there. Pizza. I love hot dogs anywhere. I've got nothing against any of that. If I feel like eating, I eat. I don't feel guilty about it at all.

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

Oh, I am such a little piggy. Everyone is always mad at me because I eat so much. They're like, 'How are you so skinny?' I eat more than my husband!

I don't stop eating when I'm full. The meal isn't over when I'm full. It's over when I hate myself.

As an emotional eater, I eat to soothe.

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