Vicki Stevens

“In our environment—which provides intense motivation for overeating while the culture insists that everyone should remain extremely thin—many people have developed a difficult relationship with food.”
― Sandra Aamodt, Why Diets Make Us Fat: The Unintended Consequences of Our Obsession With Weight Loss

“Take a moment to think about that. Doctors routinely recommend a treatment for obesity (dieting) that is likely to result in their patients’ gaining more weight. After one of my talks, a doctor told me that it felt unethical not to recommend dieting to her obese patients, but when I asked her about the ethics of prescribing a treatment with such a high failure rate, she fell silent.”
― Sandra Aamodt, Why Diets Make Us Fat: The Unintended Consequences of Our Obsession With Weight Loss

“Where there is ruin, there is hope for treasure.”
― Emma Scott, All In

“Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material. ”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald