Normal" Isn't An Adjective You Wish To

When It’s Quiet In My Head Like This, That’s When The Voice Doesn’t Need To Tell Me How Pathetic I Am. I Know It In The Deepest Part Of Me. When It’s Quiet Like This, That’s When I Truly Hate Myself.

Restriction Generates Yearning. You Want What You Cannot Have.

And Dieting, I Discovered, Was Another Form Of Disordered Eating, Just As Anorexia And Bulimia Similarly Disrupt The Natural Order Of Eating. "ordered" Eating Is The Practice Of Eating When You Are Hungry And Ceasing To Eat When Your Brain Sends The Signal That Your Stomach Is Full. ... All People Who Live Their Lives On A Diet Are Suffering. If You Can Accept Your Natural Body Weight And Not Force It To Beneath Your Body's Natural, Healthy Weight, Then You Can Live Your Life Free Of Dieting, Of Restriction, Of Feeling Guilty Every Time You Eat A Slice Of Your Kid's Birthday Cake.

If Your Self-esteem Really Does Depend On How You Look You're Always Going To Be Insecure. There's No Way You Can Get Around It Because You Are Going To Age. Even If You Get That Perfect Body You're Going To Get Older And Older And Older. You Can't Avid It. So You Have To Somehow, At Some Point, Take Control And Sift The Focus And Decide Who You Are, What You Can Contribute To The World, What You Do And Say, Is So Much More Important Than How You Look.

Shame Weighs A Lot More Than Flesh And Bone.