Beauty isn’t measured in pounds.
Weight does not dictate your worth.
You are not a mistake. You are not a problem to be solved. But you won’t discover this until you are willing to stop banging your head against the wall of shaming and caging and fearing yourself. – Geneen Roth
If only our eyes saw souls instead of bodies, how very different our ideas of beauty would be.
Binge eating is another eating disorder that people really don’t realize is a problem. – Demi Lovato
Beauty starts in your head, not in your mirror.
Beauty is about living your life, and being happy with yourself inside and out, and not worrying about what people think of you.
Hating your body will never get you as far as loving it will.
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused. – Marcel Proust
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
Losing weight is not your life’s work, and counting calories is not the call of your soul. You surely are destined for something much greater.
I’d rather be strong and happy than be what society thinks is thin and perfect and be miserable.
Focus on how far you’ve come, not how far you have to go.
She began to measure herself in contentment and laughter rather than inches and pounds.
Binge on life. Purge negativity. Starve guilty feelings.
The beauty myth is always actually prescribing behavior and not appearance.
I am forever engaged in a silent battle in my head over whether or not to lift the fork to my mouth, and when I talk myself into doing so, I taste only shame. I have an eating disorder. – Jena Morrow
We get so worried about being pretty. Let’s be pretty kind, pretty funny, pretty smart, pretty strong.
Make peace with the mirror and watch your reflection change.
Body love is about self-worth in general. It’s more than our physical appearance.
I intend to accept my body today love my body tomorrow and appreciate my body always.
Part of treatment for drugs and alcohol is you abstain from these, but with eating disorders you can’t abstain from food so the treatment is longer than drugs and alcohol. – Carre Otis
You don’t have to look like you have an eating disorder to have one.
I don’t believe you have to have eating disorders and mental illness to screw up. – Kirstie Alley
I destroyed my body for a peace of mind I never got
Breaking an addiction is never easy, but it can be done. You are stronger than that red-faced demon screaming in the bathroom. – Callie Bowld
If I like myself at this weight, then this is what I’m going to be. I don’t have an eating disorder. – Courteney Cox
Love yourself instead of abusing yourself. – Karolina Kurkova
You have to make peace with food. You have to learn, and program your brain to understand: your body needs food. – Callie Bowld
Feeling guilty for eating when you’re hungry is like feeling for breathing when your lungs need oxygen. We’ve literally been taught to be ashamed or our basic human needs. Refuse to feel the shame. You are allowed to eat.
I won’t let a number on a scale own me.
Eating disorders can have serious medical and psychological consequences which, left unchecked, can kill. Parents should address this issue and ask their children to discuss how they feel about themselves. – Tipper Gore
There is no magic cure, no making it all go away forever. There are only small steps upward; an easier day, an unexpected laugh, a mirror that doesn’t matter anymore.
Mirrors are just glass and you are more than that
She tries her hardest to look good. But she still feels ugly.
Our society’s strong emphasis on dieting and self-image can sometimes lead to eating disorders. We know that more than 5 million Americans suffer from eating disorders, most of them young women. – Tipper Gore
The good news, however, is that, also contrary to popular belief, full and lasting recovery from an eating disorder is possible.
Girls don’t just simply decide to hate their bodies, we teach them to.
Having anorexia doesn’t mean you don’t eat. It means you’re consumed by a voice constantly telling you you’re not good enough.
When you starve yourself you feed your demons.
The end of an eating disorder begins with THE DECISION TO STOP. – Callie Bowld
Sexy is not a size, every calories is not a war, your body is not a battleground. Your value is not measured in pounds.
No two eating disorders are the same. No two individuals are the same. No two paths to recovery are the same. But everyone’s strength to reach recovery IS the same. – Brittany Burgunder
Don’t let the fear of relapsing keep you from recovering.
Girls developed eating disorders when our culture developed a standard of beauty that they couldn’t obtain by being healthy. When unnatural thinness became attractive, girls did unnatural things to be thin.
The dinner table is a battlefield where warriors defeat the eating disorder one bite at a time.
Eating disorders have causes…and none of the causes is a choice
The size of your body has nothing to do with your worth. Nothing.
Anorexia is a parasite, not your friend.
We turn skeletons into goddesses and look to them as if they might teach us how not to need.
It doesn’t take self motivation to get thin, but instead self hate. Nothing good ever comes from hate.
I’m tired of hating my own body.
We don’t know who is healthy and who is not just by looking at their body shape.
And I said to my body, softy: “I want to be your friend”. It took a long breath, and replied: I have been waiting my whole life for this.
Food can become such a point of anxiety – not because it’s food, but just because you have anxiety. That’s how eating disorders develop.
Anorexia isn’t a diet, bulimia isn’t a bad habit, EDNOS is not just being a picky eater. These are horrible disorders, not life choices.
Our minds distort our mirrors.
It is called a disorder for a reason. Because it makes no rational sense. It’s completely counterproductive and, the saddest part, it is also dissatisfying and damaging. – Callie Bowld
Recovery is a challenge, but it’s not as difficult as continuing to live the wrath of an eating disorder.
Eating disorders are serious mental illness, not lifestyle choices.
One of the most dangerous myths surrounding eating disorders is that they are a life sentence.
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