Marian Keyes Quotes

Why do we get so angry at ourselves when we eat foods we love? Do you think guys walk around going, 'I just ate a cheeseburger and I'm so mad at myself?'

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.

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

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

I've had a love-hate 'relationship with food for most of my life.

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

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

I realized that I've had a really rocky relationship with food - it has not been a gauzy, beautiful summer of ripe melons and perfectly buttered toast.

Because you're fat, you feel that everybody's watching every bite you take. So, you closet-eat, and you think because nobody sees you eating, then you're not eating. You know, if you're eating a Big Mac in a closed car, can anybody hear you nosh? If I ate only what people saw me eat, I would've probably been about 170 pounds.

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!

No one is more sensitive to the issue of overeating than the creator of Stuart Smalley.

From the time I was thirteen, there was a constant struggle between MGM and me - whether or not to eat, how much to eat, what to eat. I remember this more vividly than anything else about my childhood.

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

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

I was compulsively overeating when I was eight years old.

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 food junkie.

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

My life just got taken over by my cooking. If you don't have any discipline, which I don't, you can make 10 gallons of chocolate mousse, take a spoonful and another and another, and you won't realize you've eaten like five servings of it. It's just what you do.

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.

Sometimes, when full and in fear that I will continue to eat unwanted food just because it's staring at me, I will place my napkin over the remaining portion. This is what I frequently refer to as a 'food funeral.'

So what I did was stuff my face with anything around, any old rubbish, burgers, chocolate, crisps, fish and chips, loads of it, till I felt sick - but at least I'd had the pleasure of stuffing my face and feeling really full.

I'm a huge food addict.

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.