Joanna Going Quotes

I don't believe you have to have eating disorders and mental illness to screw up.

I realized I was an anorexic, a bulimic, and a compulsive overeater.

I've battled food issues since my late teens.

I don't have a great relationship with food.

Yes, you should be healthy and take care of yourself, but growing up, I've seen people who have horrible issues with food.

Food can become such a point of anxiety - not because it's food, but just because you have anxiety. That's how eating disorders develop.

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 had a very unhealthy relationship with food that turned into bulimia.

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

I was never diagnosed with an eating disorder but I definitely had a difficult relationship with food.

I couldn't be anorexic because I like food too much, and I couldn't be bulimic because I hate throwing up too much.

I've decided that perhaps I'm bulimic and just keep forgetting to purge.

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

Anorexia, you starve yourself. Bulimia, you binge and purge. You eat huge amounts of food until you're sick and then you throw up. And anorexia, you just deny yourself. It's about control.

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

Eating disorders can have serious medical and psychological consequences which, left unchecked, can kill. Parents should address this issue and ask their children to discuss how they feel about themselves.

Our society's strong emphasis on dieting and self-image can sometimes lead to eating disorders. We know that more than 5 million Americans suffer from eating disorders, most of them young women.

The interesting thing about overeating or being obese is there's this physical manifestation of it.

I read that book 'Fat is a Feminist Issue', got a bit desperate halfway through and ate it.

I never starved myself.

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

While I was never diagnosed with anorexia or bulimia at the time, I've learned that starving myself and bingeing means I had both.

I don't want to encourage eating disorders.