Binge eating is another eating disorder that people really don't realize is a problem.
I wish I could tell every young girl with an eating disorder, or who has harmed herself in any way, that she's worthy of life and that her life has meaning. You can overcome and get through anything.
Eating disorders are serious mental illnesses, not lifestyle choices.
Red flag of the eating disorder: the muffin. Keep your eye on the ladies with the muffins...and sometimes I'll just eat the muffin top.
If I like myself at this weight, then this is what I'm going to be. I don't have an eating disorder.
What you persist in doing gets easier. The task hasn't changed, but your ability to do it has increased.
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.
An eating disorder epidemic suggests that love and disgust are being jointly marketed, as it were; that wherever the proposition might first have come from, the unacceptability of the female body has been disseminated culturally.
I suffered from eating disorders when I was just a kid. I did not like me or the way I looked. But back then, you could not tell anyone.
I tried to go anorexic for a good three hours. I ate ice and celery, but that’s not even anorexic. And I quit. I was like, 'Ma, can you make me a sandwich? Like, immediately.'