Evan Esar Quotes

The waist is a terrible thing to mind.

You don't have to be emaciated or vomiting to be suffering. All people who live their lives on a diet are suffering.

She was convinced that she was anorexic, because every time she looked in the mirror she did indeed see a fat person.

When people have eating disorders, they can't actually see what they truly look like because they're so clouded with their emotions.

Sometimes I worry more about losing weight than gaining weight, because this is how people know and accept me.

I always say I am a realist, and my mom says, 'No, you just have anxiety.'

I used to refer to myself as a 'theoretical anorexic,' just as crazy when it came to body image, but saved by a lack of self-discipline. My daughters do everything better than I do - they're smarter, more beautiful, happier. What if they end up better at anorexia, too?

Most dancers have no awareness of how they look; half of them think they're fat. There is anorexia in the ballet world; there are those things.

I was never anorexic, so I was never that skinny. I was never bony-bony. But I remember thinking, I don't want to be this skinny.

I have obsessed about my weight in some sort of way all my life. I used to write in my journal what I weighed every day.

You don't get ulcers from what you eat. You get them from what's eating you.

One thing I've very quickly learned is that if you wake up every morning worrying about what's in the press, you would go completely and utterly potty.

If you struggle with putting things into perspective, just ask yourself two simple questions: What's the worst thing that could happen as a result of this? Will this matter in five years? Your answers should put a stop to cataclysmic thinking.

For the first few years after I lost weight, I would feel for my hip bones every morning when I woke up so I would know I wasn't fat. It was like pinching myself so I'd know I wasn't dreaming.

I'm a worrywart, so I'm always a bit more stressed out than I should be or wish I was.

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

Quit worrying about your health. It will go away.

I look a hundred and weigh 110 - you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me.

I don't want to be wondering about how skinny I am, wondering what I'm going to eat because I don't want to gain and I want to look hot and young, always and forever.

Every faculty and virtue I possess can be used as an instrument with which to worry myself.

I am not even trying to become size zero. My problem was that I hated to see myself putting on weight when I could see others around me slim and trim and looking great. It was affecting me mentally.

I carry a lot of my weight in my stomach. I just want to have... not even a number, but to have my body in a different shape.

Words and images deeply impact the way we view our bodies, and the consequences can be very damaging.

I was called 'fat' 200 times on shoots and had serious trouble fitting in the clothes at fashion shows. All these things break you down to a point where you look in the mirror and don't like what you see.

All worry is fear-based.