Mark Hyman Quotes

When I get tired, I start eating things that I wouldn't normally crave, like biscuits, because they'll give me a bit of energy to keep going.

I have cravings all the time, even when I'm not pregnant.

Ever since I was little, I loved to eat. I started eating when I wasn't hungry. My weight has always been up and down.

I know that a lot of my life is spent thinking about crisps and eating crisps and hating myself for eating crisps. It's just not worth it. Or it wouldn't be if crisps weren't so delicious.

The animal tends to eat with his stomach, and the man with his brain. When the animal's stomach is full, he stops eating, but the man is never sure when to stop. When he has eaten as much as his belly can take, he still feels empty, he still feels an urge for further gratification.

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

I've learnt that if I tell myself I'm not allowed something, I binge on it later. So if I want chocolate, I have chocolate. If I want biscuits, I have biscuits. I love cake. I just love cake.

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

You know how you feel when you get full? Well, I don't get full. I can eat a lot. Mike and I were in Italy for 10 days, and I put on 8 pounds. So in real life, I have to make sure I'm not eating just to eat.

The one thing that's broken inside of me is that I've lost the signal most people have to feel hungry or feel full.

When I feel stressed, I turn to food for comfort, but I don't like to diet and I'm not good at it.

Sugar does make people happy, but then you fall off the edge after a few minutes, so I've really pretty much cut it out of my diet. Except for cupcakes. I like those.

I like food way too much to not eat.

Sometimes, when full and in fear that I will continue to eat unwanted food just because it's staring at me, I will place my napkin over the remaining portion. This is what I frequently refer to as a 'food funeral.'

Go ahead and have the Kit Kat at the movies. If you don't satisfy an urge sometimes, you often substitute less-satisfying things and end up eating more.

Everybody has a weakness. Mine is food.

I'm a huge food addict.

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

I'm a sucker for a packet of biscuits. I can eat a whole pack in 10 minutes.

I miss being able to pig out sometimes.

When you have that deep kind of hunger that is part longing, what's better to eat than the best apple pie? Or the best potato salad and guacamole? Or the best deviled eggs and crab cakes and white chocolate raspberry pie?

I am not a heavy drinker, I've never taken a drug in my life, but I am prone to a pizza.

It's literally, if I'm not working out, I eat the whole time I'm not working out. It's exhausting. You have to force-feed. You have to force yourself to eat food.

My greatest weakness is... food. If it looks like it's going to taste nice, it goes in my face - simple as that.