Kelly

“Unless you lock yourself in a room, have minimal food brought to you, don’t watch TV, and don’t have access to anything outside, you’ll be surrounded by food cues,” she explains. “Which ultimately take their toll. As soon as you can get food, you eat more and gain back everything and then some.”
― Harriet Brown, Body of Truth: How Science, History, and Culture Drive Our Obsession with Weight—and What We Can Do about It

“If anything had happened to Ula, I would rip Saenunos’s eyes from their sockets and wear them for earrings.”
― Melanie Karsak, Queen of Oak

“My mom was strict about what food we could eat and what we couldn’t. Part of this was about money and part of it was about staying thin. When my sister would reach for seconds my mom would say, “Why don’t you just slap that directly on your ass?”
― Harriet Brown, Body of Truth: How Science, History, and Culture Drive Our Obsession with Weight—and What We Can Do about It

“One of the underlying assumptions about health is that if only we do everything right, we’ll be healthy.”
― Harriet Brown, Body of Truth: How Science, History, and Culture Drive Our Obsession with Weight—and What We Can Do about It