Jake Arrieta Quotes

You just don't eat until you feel like you're gonna throw up at every meal and all of a sudden the weight falls right off.

If you continually diet, you are putting your body in a quasi-famine situation. It slows your metabolism down and breaks the thermostat. Diets don't work. They don't help you understand why you're eating more than your body wanted in the first place.

I did a very stupid diet where you have three food groups, and you never eat them together. It's so bloody tedious; I'm losing the will to live just describing it. I managed to stay very thin because you spent your life wandering around starving hungry looking for a chickpea to go with a chicken leg.

For four to six months at a time, I would barely eat. I lived on a diet of Melba toast, carrots, and black coffee.

I could easily go one or two days without realizing that I'm so, so hungry. That's the negative outcome of what I've become.

So I would always try and be the lightest I could. In high school, I really wouldn't eat. I would only have lunch and I would only have salads. And then it got so crazy as to just eating like a cracker or a cucumber a day and I would feel full.

She used to diet on any kind of food she could lay her hands on.

My biggest regret is putting my body through fad diets - Atkins, cleanses, the hCG diet.

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

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.

I don't know if those things work, where you do, like, this crash diet or crash starvation. It's just not something I've ever been into.

I am not naturally that thin, so I had to go through everything from using drugs to diet pills to laxatives to fasting. Those were my main ways of controlling my weight.

I was compulsively overeating when I was eight years old.

Weight was the thing I hyperfocused on. It went from me losing a few pounds to slowly over time losing more and more weight and becoming more and more focused on it.

My body started to shut down. I got really, really ill. When you're starving yourself, you can't concentrate. I was like a walking zombie, like the walking dead. I was just consumed with what I would eat, what I wouldn't eat.

A misperception about anorexia is that you don't eat. Not true. Maybe you eat just 500 calories a day. It would be easy for me to say, 'Why didn't my parents notice?' But I didn't want them to. I made sure to eat half a sandwich around my parents.

The worst diets are ones that restrict your calories too much and try to trick your body. You have no energy, and it's ridiculous.

Statistically, if you have ever dieted you are extremely likely not only to regain any weight you lose, but to go on to gain even more. Dieting makes you fat.

It was between the ages of 14 and 20 and I started off not eating at all, maybe an apple a day.

The constant craze of size zero and crash diets is not very good.

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

I realized that I had an eating disorder in which I controlled myself to a point that I would not let myself enjoy what I wanted to eat or eat what I needed to eat, all to stay a certain size.

You go to a show, and there's no food at all, so if you're doing shows back to back, you can forget eating. I remember standing up in the bath one day, and there was a mirror in front of me, and I was so thin! I hated it. I never liked being that skinny.

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 eat almost no lunch. I have a big dinner but I don't have a big lunch.