Jami Attenberg Quotes

We ourselves hold the instrument that makes us fat. I just shake my head when I see someone eating cake and saying, 'Oh, I wish I wasn't heavy.' But they keep eating the cake!

By the age of 18, I was very fat. My dad would say there's a Spall fat gene. But I was fat because I ate loads. I used to go and buy six or seven chocolate bars and eat my way through them.

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

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.

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

I am the one who got myself fat, who did all the eating. So I had to take full responsibility for it.

I struggle because I love food and sometimes I can't stop eating.

Toffee Crisp was my downfall. I once ate five at a sitting. Do you really need that third helping, Harry? My parents didn't overfeed me, nor did they make an issue of it. That's when things go wrong. It doesn't have to be a problem for children to be fat, but it does affect you: you aren't as happy in that skin.

If you put on weight it's not by chance. You put on weight because you eat compulsively.

I'm a huge food addict.

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.

As a kid, I'd eat at my mother's house, then go down the road to my girlfriend's and eat, and then sometimes go to my friend's house and eat again. I could gain five pounds in a day. In a week, there wouldn't be a scale to weigh me.

I can't put on weight, even though I eat so much and I'm not saying that in a good way because I love curves and I love carbs too.

You're not looking for a partner," Ranger said. "You're looking for an enforcer. You hate to run. You must be worried about getting into that black dress. What did you eat just now? Piece of cake? Candy bar?" "Everything," I said. "I just ate everything.

I was a food junkie.

You know how you feel when you get full? Well, I don't get full. I can eat a lot. Mike and I were in Italy for 10 days, and I put on 8 pounds. So in real life, I have to make sure I'm not eating just to eat.

Because you're fat, you feel that everybody's watching every bite you take. So, you closet-eat, and you think because nobody sees you eating, then you're not eating. You know, if you're eating a Big Mac in a closed car, can anybody hear you nosh? If I ate only what people saw me eat, I would've probably been about 170 pounds.

It became obvious in 1957 that I was endangering my health by carrying so much weight.

I just don't like being overweight.

Because I was always a fat child, I got fatter and fatter, and I ended up 18 stone and with a 40-inch waist.

I've been overweight all my life.

All my life I've had a weight problem. As a child, I loved to eat. I would hide from my mother and drink whole cans of condensed milk in my room.

I don't worry about gaining weight. I'm fortunate in that I've never had to worry about that. Some people eat when they are stressed. I don't eat enough.

Everybody has a weakness. Mine is food.