Joe Thomas Quotes

I kept getting told, 'You need to bulk up. Burgers and shakes. Burgers and shakes.' That's never been my thing.

I want to bulk up. I'm a skinny guy.

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've always tried very hard to gain weight since I was very young.

I've been trying to put weight on my whole life, and I've been able to do it.

For years I was an undiagnosed anorexic, suffering from a little-known variant of the disease, where, freakishly, the appetite turns in on itself and demands more and more food, forcing the sufferer to gain several stones in weight and wear men's V-necked pullovers. My condition has stabilised now, but I can never stray too far from cocoa-based products and I keep a small cracknel-type candy in my brassiere at all times. Fortunately, I wear a 'D' cup so there is plenty of room for sweetmeats.

At one point I had to shove as much food in my body as possible to pack on calories. My trainer wanted me to do six meals a day and not go two hours without eating. If I would cheat on eating one day, I could tell - I'd drop a few pounds.

I don't understand anorexia; I'm too greedy to ever not eat... I just can't do it.

I love food so much, all I have to do is look at it and I gain 5 pounds.

Putting on weight for me is really, really hard. If I stop lifting, or if I stop eating, I get skinny really quick.

Growing up the way I grew up, food was scarce. So when you had an opportunity to eat, you ate. When I graduated from high school and went to college, I weighed 160 pounds. So, I knew I had to put on the weight. I ate everything from fried food to fried chicken wings. When I came to Green Bay, I did the same thing because I was 172 pounds.

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.

I haven't been trying to lose weight. I wish I would put on some weight.

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

It's difficult, and it's an incredibly fine balance between getting your weight right down and being anorexic.

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

In the entirety of my life, I have never had an eating disorder.

Well, it's very easy for me to gain weight, but even though I tried not eating for a week when I was really young, I couldn't do it any longer because I liked my food too much.

Now just the thought of eating ice cream puts pounds on me.

It's hard for me to put on weight.

I wasn't strong enough to have an eating disorder. I tried to go anorexic for a good three hours. I ate ice and celery, but that's not even anorexic. And I quit. I was like, 'Ma, can you make me a sandwich? Like, immediately.'

My eating habits are the only behaviour of mine that are still manic. I can't walk by a restaurant, a bakery, an ice-cream store or a candy store without making a purchase; the amount of calories I take in today are at least five times as many as I took before starting on all of this medication.

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

My gosh, I love food. If I wasn't an actor, I could be a completely different body shape right now.

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