Compulsive Overeating Quotes

Food can become such a point of anxiety - not because it's food, but just because you have anxiety. That's how eating disorders develop.

Yes, you should be healthy and take care of yourself, but growing up, I've seen people who have horrible issues with food.

For years I was an undiagnosed anorexic, suffering from a little-known variant of the disease, where, freakishly, the appetite turns in on itself and demands more and more food, forcing the sufferer to gain several stones in weight and wear men's V-necked pullovers. My condition has stabilised now, but I can never stray too far from cocoa-based products and I keep a small cracknel-type candy in my brassiere at all times. Fortunately, I wear a 'D' cup so there is plenty of room for sweetmeats.

I had bulimia for a few years. I was really sick. I don't know that person; I can't believe that was me.

I was compulsively overeating when I was eight years old.

I've decided that perhaps I'm bulimic and just keep forgetting to purge.

Our society's strong emphasis on dieting and self-image can sometimes lead to eating disorders. We know that more than 5 million Americans suffer from eating disorders, most of them young women.

I mean, we all know the dangers of starving, but bulimia? That can't be that bad. It's only bad when you get really thin. Who worries about bulimics? They're just gross.

When people are told to 'eat many small meals,' what they may actually hear is 'eat all the time,' making them likely to respond with some degree of compulsive overeating. It's no coincidence, I think, that obesity rates began rising rapidly in the 1980s more or less in tandem with this widespread endorsement of more frequent meals.

Perhaps they thought I was on a fact-finding mission, never for one moment thinking that a man of my age and build could be suffering from bulimia nervosa, but that's what the consultant said I had.

While I was never diagnosed with anorexia or bulimia at the time, I've learned that starving myself and bingeing means I had both.

When I talk about drugs and alcohol, I'm talking about sex addiction, gambling addiction, eating addiction, throwing-up addiction. I'm not talking about mental illness.

Binge eating is another eating disorder that people really don't realize is a problem.

Food has always brought me comfort and the bingeing is triggered when I'm in a space that is not positive.

I had a very unhealthy relationship with food that turned into bulimia.

I have had struggles with some eating disorders, just eating issues.

I was never diagnosed with an eating disorder but I definitely had a difficult relationship with food.

I'm probably throwing down close to 10,000 calories. And then I don't eat for three or four days.

Anorexia, you starve yourself. Bulimia, you binge and purge. You eat huge amounts of food until you're sick and then you throw up. And anorexia, you just deny yourself. It's about control.

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.

Eating disorders can have serious medical and psychological consequences which, left unchecked, can kill. Parents should address this issue and ask their children to discuss how they feel about themselves.

I used to starve myself to death.

Who would have thought that the girl who was forced to go to the hospital because she's so skinny would one day be called too fat?

In high school, I had a couple girlfriends who had very extreme eating disorders. Anorexia and bulimia. And in college as well. It's just heartbreaking. As someone going through it, it's heartbreaking. And as a friend who's helping a friend going through it, it's heartbreaking. It's a real, real disease.