Nicole Polizzi Quotes

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

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 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.

I tried being anorexic for four hours, and then I was like, I need some bagels.

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

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

I finally understood that by being on a perpetual diet, I had practiced a "disordered" form of eating my whole life. I restricted when I was hungry and in need of nutrition and binged when I was so grotesquely full I couldn't be comfortable in any position by lying down. Diets that tell people what to eat or when to eat are the practices inbetween. And dieting, I discovered, was another form of disordered eating, just as anorexia and bulimia similarly disrupt the natural order of eating.

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 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.'

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 must be an anorexic because an anorexic looks in the mirror and sees a fat person.

I don't think just being skinny means necessarily anorexic.

I never starved myself.

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

I was low-key abusing myself. The idea of being skinny became something that was most appealing to me. Even if you watch 'The Real,' from season 1 to season 4, I was always 100 lbs. I started to really work hard to stay petite and to not gain weight and to stay sample size.

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.

When you go further and further into starvation you chose yourself, your mind becomes totally obsessed with not eating. It's like a religion where everything is sinful, and there is a heaven at the end where you are thin and don't need energy anymore.

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

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.

I was 17 when my body started changing, and I worried about what I did wrong. I went through a period where I didn't eat at all. I also had someone who was encouraging me to take diet pills. I pushed myself to the extreme because I woke up one day and had hips - and a butt - and thought, 'Oh my gosh, I'm getting fat!'

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.

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.

I dare anybody to look at me and say I'm anorexic. I'm so totally not.

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

I've never personally been anorexic.