Alysia Reiner Quotes

I've never seen an obese person who has said, 'I am well in my mind.' Happiness stops food being a compensation.

If you're not happy about how you look, you have to question how much self-love you have.

I've really been working on the emotional and internal issues that made me eat in the first place. It's been a real journey.

Nobody looks perfect. We have to find peace with the way we look and get on with life.

My biggest advice for high school girls is to not take yourself so seriously.

I'm going to let myself off the hook, because if there's one thing that is not my focus at the moment, it's how much I weigh.

I used to beat myself up about weight and working out, and no matter what I did I never felt good about myself. I decided to accept myself and know that I am good.

While I may never be in remission from cancer, I am currently in remission from an unhealthy relationship to food.

It's all about balance and, I think, being in the moment.

My weight has been an emotional roller-coaster for me, and I am ready to get off it.

It's almost impossible to reconcile the realities of how one feels during the day, hour by hour. But I approach things not cynically.

I want to get comfortable with my insecurities until I am no longer insecure. I want to be comfortable in my skin so that I do not need to dump any of my discomfort onto someone else in the form of judgment.

How we feel about ourselves as we read the newspaper, set the table, wash the dishes, recycle the trash and wash our clothes... is essential to our overall happiness and well-being.

There definitely was a time when I was pretty obsessed with my weight, but I'm better off not stressing about my body all the time.

When you gather up all the balls of life that you try to juggle, it is a very difficult thing to try to focus in on taking good care of yourself. But that's why God invented me - so I can come and teach and preach and make people laugh and give them some education so they can start liking themselves better.

People can be cruel, but that doesn't mean you have to take it home, wrap yourself up in it and wear it.

Across the Atlantic, commercial therapy of all kinds provides so many more comfortable outlets for people when they are under pressure. The English tradition is to get a grip, whereas the American version is to get in touch with your feelings, to say: 'I'm a good person. Isn't it terrible when bad things happen to people like me?'

There are days where I've lost weight and I feel bigger or fatter or uglier and I want to just hibernate. I'll find every excuse not to exercise. I hate it.

You can look in the mirror and find a million things wrong with yourself. Or you can look in the mirror and think, 'I feel good, I have my health, and I'm so blessed.' That's the way I choose to look at it.

Your relationship to food is but a reflection of your relationship to yourself, as is everything in your life.

When you are overweight, you just don't feel good about yourself.

I have insecurities, but they don't consume me. It doesn't bother me if my hair's a mess or if I have a bad skin day. I just don't look in the mirror!

Just trying to keep going. Just try to stay in the present the best I can. Not get too big-headed or too down on myself.

When I opened my gym, I got rid of the scales! Stepping on a scale empowers an inanimate object - every time you get on it, you turn over the helm of your emotional well being to something that doesn't care about you.

As a woman, sometimes we stress on always being of the moment, and that is a lot of pressure, especially for young girls.