Salma Hayek Quotes

I was a mindless eater. I ate for comfort. I also ate out of boredom and habit.

I'm a big comfort eater, so if I'm feeling sorry for myself, I'll just stuff my face.

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.

As an emotional eater, I eat to soothe.

When we win, I'm so happy I eat a lot. When we lose, I'm so depressed, I eat a lot. When we're rained out, I'm so disappointed I eat a lot.

I thought that I had a really healthy relationship with food, and I went home to my parents' house for a week because I cut my foot, and was recovering. I just ate loads, ate family meals, went along with group activities. And I realized how unhealthy my relationship actually is with food.

For me, personally, I love delicious food when I'm stressed.

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.

The only exercise I got as a kid was fork to mouth. Food was equated with love in my household. I thought you left the table when the zipper was down and you'd explode if you took another bite. I'd eat my plate and then everyone else's leftovers.

I'm an emotional eater. When I get upset, my diet goes out the window.

I'm sure that my compulsive eating habits began when I was a baby.

We have developed a culture in which we eat with our taste buds, not our brains.

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.

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

Food is a coping mechanism; people are afraid of giving it up because then they'll feel confused and lost.

I used to sit on the couch, and I could go through a pound of Brie cheese and a movie. I was like, 'That's enough,' because it feels like a bowling ball in your stomach.

Food is a lot of people's therapy - when we say comfort food, we really mean that. It's releasing dopamine and serotonin in your brain that makes you feel good.

Food has always brought me comfort and the bingeing is triggered when I'm in a space that is not positive.

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

I hid myself in food.

Eating when you're not hungry and taking in that amount of food is exhausting.

Food is my favourite thing in the world. I always say if I ate what I actually wanted to eat I'd be in one of those electronic scooters because I'd be too big.

Whenever I am feeling happy or sad, I always find comfort in food.

I think about food literally all day every day. It's a thing.

Compulsive eating is an emotional problem, and we use an emotional approach to its solution.