Marianne Williamson Quotes

When I'm feeling down on myself or not feeling good about who I am, or maybe something happened and I'm feeling depressed, I eat to fill that void. Afterwards I'll beat myself up about it. I regret doing it, but I'll turn around and do it again.

I became hugely overweight and then hated myself because it was a form of self-abuse, something over which I had no control. I think the thing compulsive over-eaters want to achieve is that stuffed-full Christmas afternoon feeling.

I don't stop eating when I'm full. The meal isn't over when I'm full. It's over when I hate myself.

Often, overeating is a way to punish yourself for the anger and resentment you're feeling - either at yourself or someone else.

Here's how it is: I feel guilty about every single bite of food that goes into my mouth.

My life just got taken over by my cooking. If you don't have any discipline, which I don't, you can make 10 gallons of chocolate mousse, take a spoonful and another and another, and you won't realize you've eaten like five servings of it. It's just what you do.

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

So what I did was stuff my face with anything around, any old rubbish, burgers, chocolate, crisps, fish and chips, loads of it, till I felt sick - but at least I'd had the pleasure of stuffing my face and feeling really full.

The evening is really hard for me. I have to force myself not to eat.

I never hurt anybody; I only hurt myself and my family. I never did anything mean to anybody, I was just mean to myself.

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've had a love-hate 'relationship with food for most of my life.

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.

My heart felt empty, and I tried to fill the void with food. However, instead of feeling better, I became anxious and felt like I was lacking.

Food became my coping mechanism and I've never been able to break that cycle.

I was greedy and ate in that unselfconscious way teenagers do, constantly grazing and eating when I wasn't hungry.

Nobody abuses us more than we abuse ourselves.

Vengeance is the act of turning anger in on yourself. On the surface it may be directed at someone else, but it is a surefire recipe for arresting emotional recovery.

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

If you want to beat me up, feel free. You cannot beat me up more than I have already beaten up myself.

Food compulsion isn't a character disorder; it's a chemical disorder.

I was compulsively overeating when I was eight years old.

I think the main thing I remembered throughout all of filming it was just that she just was extremely self-destructive. I think everybody can relate to that a little bit. She doesn't like herself.

I was a food junkie.

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.