"More often than not, expecting to lose weight without first losing the diet that made the weight loss necessary is like expecting a pig to be spotless after hosing it down while it was still rolling i..."
- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"We need to not let food master us and take the throne of our lives. We need to make food submit to us, rather than us submitting to food. No one can serve two masters. We cannot serve money and God, a..."
- Lisa Bedrick
"Leave something on your plate... 'Better to go to waste than to waist"
- Michael Pollan
"Wolsey and Henry VIII, it has to be said, were not exceptional in their love of the table. The English of Tudor times had a reputation throughout Europe for gluttony. Indeed, overeating was regarded a..."
- Clarissa Dickson Wright
"Living for the satisfaction of only one part of my body (my mouth) [is] unholy."
- Lisa Morrone
"Truth: last week I online shopped too much. Then I ate 2 pounds of jelly beans to feel better about that. In fact, while I was trying to read soul-nourishing things all I could think about was shoppin..."
- Anna White
"In some cases, people with a body (whose size) they did not long for are victims of having a bank balance (whose size) they longed for."
"Overeating is the addiction of choice of carers, and that's why it's come to be regarded as the lowest-ranking of all the addictions. It's a way of fucking yourself up while still remaining fully func..."
- Caitlin Moran
"We have it in our head that if we fill our stomachs, we’ll fill our hearts."
- Kate Wicker