Jillian Michaels Quotes

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.

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

I used food as a coping mechanism for many, many years, and it was my best friend for a long time.

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

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

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 a fat kid on the inside. I love food so much, and I fluctuate about 25 to 30 pounds between movies. I feel like I have to do a chess movie that requires very little movement at some point, just so I can eat pizza and play chess on the beach all day.

I've battled my weight since I was 12. My parents took to us to New York once, for a holiday, and there I'd buy fruit loops from a 24x7 shop and sit down with my books. I never played; I wasn't that kind of kid - I just read. I ate chocolates like peanuts. I was 86kg till I was 19.

I'm the kind of person, if, if I have a day that is nerve-wracking, or my week has been bad or something's going down, I won't eat. Some people eat, I don't eat. And it shows in my physical frame.

I think for me, food was a way for me to deal with emotional trouble.

For most of my life, I have eaten to deal with stress.

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

Over-eating is the addiction choice of carers, and that's why it's come to be regarded as the lowest-ranking of all the addictions.

I hid myself in food.

Food is not your remedy for problems. Food is not going to change your life. If you are lonely, food is not going to be your company. If you are sad, food is not going to give you solace.

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

I always think I am one of the millions and millions of people that struggles with an addiction to food. I don't know how to relax, that's my problem.

Inside me there is a fat man dying to get out.

Chances are you're using overeating as a way to escape yourself. It's an attempt not to feel or think about what you really need to feel and face.

I was morbidly obese. It was a way for me to create a shell around me so that nobody would look at me.

What's worse? Being strung out or being fat?

Stop trying to find something in food that will make you feel better.

If you're happy, you eat. If you're sad, you eat. You lose a job, you eat. You get a job, you eat. It's, you know, it's addiction.

Inside me there's a thin person struggling to get out, but I can usually sedate him with four or five cupcakes.

Size zero doesn't make you happy, and I'm not sure I have the discipline for Hollywood. I'm too much of a fan of chocolate and crisps.