Food is an important part, not just in our physical well-being, but in our psychological well-being.
When I want comfort food, I buy Maltesers. I like all chocolates, but especially those. You can eat them, and because they're so light, you can convince yourself that they are not actually that fattening.
It's funny how cucumber water can taste so much better than pickle juice, even though they come from the same source.
Food = joy ... guilt ... anger ... pain ... nurturing ... friendship ... hatred ... the way you look and feel.... Food = everything you can imagine.
The only people who are obsessed with food are anorexics and the morbidly obese. That, in erotic terms, is the Catholic church, in a nutshell.
If we are going to change our diets, we first have to relearn the art of eating, which is a question of psychology as much as nutrition. We have to find a way to want to eat what's good for us.
Looks can be deceiving; it's eating that's believing.
I'm somewhat shy about the brutal facts of being a carnivore. I don't like meat to look like animals. I prefer it in the form of sausages, hamburger and meat loaf, far removed from the living thing.
Once a food becomes off-limits, then it takes on this whole other personality. 'Forbidden' is more tempting. And it becomes something evil, but food is food. It's there to nourish your body.
If no one saw - it didn't count. It's only when you eat in front of strangers or people that make you feel guilty that food is really fattening.
A person's relationship with food is one of their most important relationships.
I think a lot of women, in the way that they might attach emotion to sex, attach emotion to food, in a different way than men.
Everyone knows that if you buy chocolate with spare change, then the calories don't count.
Food is a lot of people's therapy - when we say comfort food, we really mean that. It's releasing dopamine and serotonin in your brain that makes you feel good.
Food cannot cause you to put on weight, unless you think it can.
Is the chemical aftertaste the reason why people eat hot dogs, or is it some kind of bonus?
We know what we should and shouldn't put in our mouths, but in those times that pull on our souls, we revert to what's emotionally comfortable.
I've conditioned myself to believe that almonds are a completely delicious snack, and that they don't taste like paper or get stuck in the back of my mouth.
I can hardly eat meat because it has to look like something what it was not when it was alive.
Eating too much meat gives you indigestion and evil thoughts make you eat too much meat.
Go vegetable heavy. Reverse the psychology of your plate by making meat the side dish and vegetables the main course.
Before I started writing about food, my focus was really on the human relationship to plants. Not only do plants nourish us bodily - they nourish us psychologically.
Animals were my pets, and the thought of eating my pets freaked me out.
Food is so fundamental, more so than sexuality, aggression, or learning, that it is astounding to realize the neglect of food and eating in depth psychology.
I love the Grub Street Diet. I am particularly fascinated by what people eat; I think it says a lot about people.
