‘Our bodies become the battleground for an often lifelong and very intense content of wills: its against ours. There is always the body that is crying out for more food and the mind that is crying out for more weight loss. We learn to treat our bodies like naughty children whose wishes are absolutely out of the question. We learn to judge them, ignore them, ridicule them, torture them’.

‘Diets do not leave room for being lonely. Or sad or angry or joyful. Diets exclude our psychological and emotional needs by assuming that we are going to feel the same way about ourselves, our relationships, our lives, on day one as on day six. Diets remove from us one of the few characteristics that distinguishes us from other animals – choice’.

‘Being hungry is like being in love; if you don’t know, you’re probably not’.

~ Geneen Roth, Breaking Free from Emotional Eating

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