Ivan Turgenev Quotes

I ate cucumbers and saltines - not because I wanted to look a certain way, but because I was so sad my appetite disappeared.

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

When I'm depressed, I definitely comfort eat, but I also eat when I'm happy. The only time I don't eat is if I am terribly nervous.

August depresses me a little. I don't even feel like eating. And when I don't eat, that's a sure sign of stagnation.

I'm sure that my father becoming seriously ill when I was 14 had a lot to do with my going from chubby to fat.

I'm the kind of person, if, if I have a day that is nerve-wracking, or my week has been bad or something's going down, I won't eat. Some people eat, I don't eat. And it shows in my physical frame.

I think for me, food was a way for me to deal with emotional trouble.

'Scar Tissue' is the only book I've ever written when I've felt completely toxic, ill.

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

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

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.

When I was a young man, I was overly sensitive to things, and I found it difficult to eat when I was nervous.

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.

Illness can make us behave in the most surprising ways.

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

When I get anxiety and depression and things like that, I take to eating.

I didn't eat well while filming 'Sixteen' because I was so stressed out.

Guilt is a serious appetite killer.

I have had struggles with some eating disorders, just eating issues.

Food is important in working out a character. How she eats is a window into her temperament. If I think she likes her food, I'll put on a few pounds, or lose a few if she lives on her nerves.

But when you're grieving, when you're going through something difficult, you lose your appetite. You don't want to eat. People are also always commenting on your weight, while at the same time forcing you to eat, so it's very complicated.

After violent emotion most people and all boys demand food.

Since her retirement from teaching Miss Beryl's health had in many respects greatly improved, despite her advancing years. An eighth-grade classroom was an excellent place to snag whatever was in the air in the way of illness. Also depression, which, Miss Beryl believed, in conjunction with guilt, opened the door to illness. Miss Beryl didn't know any teachers who weren't habitually guilty and depressed-guilty they hadn't accomplished more with their students, depressed that very little more was possible.

There are two kinds of women--those who eat in a crisis and those who lose their appetite in a crisis.

Your age is the sum total of your physical condition, the condition of your mind, and how you feel.