#diets

We don’t know who is healthy and who is not just by looking at their body shape. ↗

— Cheryl-Ann Webster

#body-image #diet-industry #diets #eating-disorders #self-esteem

Healthy emotions come in all sizes. Healthy minds come in all sizes. And healthy bodies come in all sizes. ↗

— Cheri K. Erdman

#body-image #diet-industry #diets #self-esteem #society

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. ↗

— Golda Poretsky

#body-image #diet #dieting #diets #oppression

So…” Kimball looks at his book helplessly. “There’s nothing you can tell me about Paul Owen?” “Well.” I sigh. “He led what I suppose was an orderly life, I guess. “ Really stumped, I offer, “He...ate a balanced diet. ↗

— Bret Easton Ellis

#diet

It's all very Italian (and decidedly un-American): to insist that doing the right thing is the most pleasurable thing, and that the act of consumption might be an act of addition rather than subtraction. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#eating #food #diet

I use a lot of spices, fresh veggies and fruit, extra virgin olive oil, nuts, avocado, soybeans and organic ingredients as often as possible. We need fat in our diets and using the healthier fats is key. ↗

— Todd English

#extra #extra virgin olive oil #fat #fats #fresh

I have been on diets that were supervised by doctors, that were carefully supervised where I lost weight. ↗

— Roberta Flack

#carefully #diets #doctors #i #lost

I don't do faddy diets any more. I once did a no-carbs diet a few years ago but it made me depressed. I couldn't be doing with that! ↗

— Jennifer Ellison

#any #depressed #did #diet #diets

We always think of a diet with a big groan. But I think diets are fun. I think it is an American pastime for a lot of women. ↗

— Mindy Kaling

#american #big #diet #diets #fun

They sent me to these places to get the weight off. The diets never worked; the diets actually made it worse. ↗

— Lisa Whelchel

#diets #get #made #me #never