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“And anyway, the first three letters in the word diet should tell you what I want it to do.”
― Hush, Hush
― Hush, Hush
“I never touch sugar, cheese, bread...
I only like what I'm allowed to like. I'm beyond temptation. There is no weakness. When I see tons of food in the studio, for us and for everybody, for me it's as if this stuff was made out of plastic. The idea doesn't even enter my mind that a human being could put that into their mouth. I'm like the animals in the forest. They don't touch what they cannot eat.”
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I only like what I'm allowed to like. I'm beyond temptation. There is no weakness. When I see tons of food in the studio, for us and for everybody, for me it's as if this stuff was made out of plastic. The idea doesn't even enter my mind that a human being could put that into their mouth. I'm like the animals in the forest. They don't touch what they cannot eat.”
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“Becoming vegan is the most important and direct change we can immediately make to save the planet and its species.”
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“Every weight loss program, no matter how positively it’s packaged, whispers to you that you’re not right. You’re not good enough. You’re unacceptable and you need to be fixed.”
― Read My Hips: How I Learned to Love My Body, Ditch Dieting, and Live Large
― Read My Hips: How I Learned to Love My Body, Ditch Dieting, and Live Large
“It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from someone else's plate.”
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“I looked at him nonplussed. I realized that I have spent so many years being on a diet that the idea that you might actually need calories to survive has been completely wiped out of my consciousness. Have reached point where believe nutritional ideal is to eat nothing at all, and that the only reason people eat is because they are so greedy they cannot stop themselves from breaking out and ruining their diets.”
― Bridget Jones’s Diary
― Bridget Jones’s Diary
“She'd even violated the only sensible rule of dieting she'd ever run across, the sage advice of the Muppets' Miss Piggy, who recommended never eating anything bigger than your head.”
― He Loves Lucy
― He Loves Lucy
“The best diet is the one you don't know you're on.”
― Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think
― Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think
“Weight and body oppression is oppressive to everyone. When you live in a society that says that one kind of body is bad and and other is good, those with “good” bodies constantly fear that their bodies will go “bad”, and those with “bad” bodies are expected feel shame and do everything they can to have “good” bodies. In the process, we torture our bodies, and do everything from engage in disordered eating to invasive surgery to make ourselves okay. Nobody wins in this kind of struggle.”
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“A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience." -Naomi Wolf”
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“She was every inch the skeletal goddess that had been promised by the bones of her feet.”
― Strange Places
― Strange Places
“Self-denial can lock women into a smug and critical condescension to other, less devout women.
According to Appel, cult members develop..."an attitude of moral superiority, a contempt for secular laws, rigidity of thought, and the diminution of regard for the individual." A premium is placed on conformity to the cult group; deviation is penalized. "Beauty" is derivative; conforming to the Iron Maiden [an intrinsically unattainable standard of beauty that is then used to punish women physically and psychologically for failure to achieve and conform to it] is "beautiful." The aim of beauty thinking, about weight or age, is rigid female thought. Cult members are urged to sever all ties with the past: "I destroyed all my fat photographs!"; "It's a new me!”
― The Beauty Myth
According to Appel, cult members develop..."an attitude of moral superiority, a contempt for secular laws, rigidity of thought, and the diminution of regard for the individual." A premium is placed on conformity to the cult group; deviation is penalized. "Beauty" is derivative; conforming to the Iron Maiden [an intrinsically unattainable standard of beauty that is then used to punish women physically and psychologically for failure to achieve and conform to it] is "beautiful." The aim of beauty thinking, about weight or age, is rigid female thought. Cult members are urged to sever all ties with the past: "I destroyed all my fat photographs!"; "It's a new me!”
― The Beauty Myth
“The diet industry is making a lot of money selling us fad diets, nonfat foods full of chemicals, gym memberships, and pills while we lose a piece of our self-esteem every time we fail another diet or neglect to use the gym membership we could barely afford.”
― Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain
― Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain
“Eating – overeating – saved me. It comforted me when I was at the mercy of grown-ups who didn't know how to give what I needed. Food was something to which I had ready access, and with it I cleverly fashioned a survival mechanism that pulled me back from the edge of insanity. – a young MacGuyver of angst and junk food.”
― Read My Hips: How I Learned to Love My Body, Ditch Dieting, and Live Large
― Read My Hips: How I Learned to Love My Body, Ditch Dieting, and Live Large
“Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women's history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one.”
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“The diet industry has a deep interest in the failure of dieters -- if everyone got skinny, they'd go out of business.”
― Stop Dieting Now: 25 Reasons to Stop, 25 Ways to Heal
― Stop Dieting Now: 25 Reasons to Stop, 25 Ways to Heal
“Women get boob jobs to give themselves a certain edge. Frankly, I don't see why they nearly kill themselves trying to diet off their equally bulbous hips.”
― Read My Hips: How I Learned to Love My Body, Ditch Dieting, and Live Large
― Read My Hips: How I Learned to Love My Body, Ditch Dieting, and Live Large
“Self-help isn't really self-help unless someone else is also helping you. We'd like to be that someone.”
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“I can tell you that if there’s nothing wrong with you except fat it is easy to get thin. You eat and drink the same as always, only half. If you are handed a plate of food, leave half; if you have to help yourself, take half. After a while, if you are a perfectionist, you can consume half of that again … On the question of will-power, if that is a factor, you should think of will-power as something that never exists in the present tense, only in the future and the past. At one moment you have decided to do or refrain from an action and the next moment you have already done or refrained; it is the only way to deal with will-power.”
― A Far Cry from Kensington
― A Far Cry from Kensington
“Mein Liebster ist fertig mit der Diät. […] Praktikantinnen machen ihm Komplimente, und er fühlt sich herrlich. - über ihren Lebensgefährten Gert Scobel.”
― Moppel-Ich: der Kampf mit den Pfunden
― Moppel-Ich: der Kampf mit den Pfunden
“My body is no longer available for the diet industry to profit off. I've got better things to do than fit into unrealistic standards of beauty so the already rich can make more money from my self-doubt.”
― Different, Not Less: A Neurodivergent's Guide to Embracing Your True Self and Finding Your Happily Ever After
― Different, Not Less: A Neurodivergent's Guide to Embracing Your True Self and Finding Your Happily Ever After
“I want to pick something filling, but not too many calories because then I'll have to calculate how it affects subsequent meals.”
― Blob: A Love Story
― Blob: A Love Story
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