439 Quotes About Eating-disorders

Your life is worth so much more than whatever body part you are so furiously fighting.

Everyone kept asking me if I wanted to die.Well, no. No I didn't want to die.But no one ever asked me if I wanted to live.

Recovery is real. It's not a luck-of-the-draw deal where you put your name in a hat and hope to be chosen. It's a grueling, relentless, personal process that will push you beyond your limits over and over.

Because if you’re ever going to get better, finally decide to stop and focus on healing, you just have to put it out there. You cannot lie about it. You can no longer hide it. You have to find someone in your life that you trust will face it with you, help and support you, and see you through it.

You have to make peace with food. You have to learn, and program your brain to understand: your body needs food.

I think sometimes making yourself vulnerable before you are ready is exactly what can hold you accountable. Do what you fear.

Jack hit the floor and fired off push-ups until he thought he'd pass out. The spinning behind his eyes felt good. He'd gotten by with a half grapefruit (35 calories) at breakfast, because his mom was such an emotional wreck before driving him to the hospital. She didn't argue over the half cup of oatmeal (110 calories), which he dumped in the sink before polishing off the last of his red M&Ms, his go-to food when life got sucky.

Signs to a normal person that I had pushed myself too hard were signs to me that I was a full-blooded thoroughbred. Way to go self! I was such an idiot.

Breaking an addiction is never easy, but it can be done. You are stronger than that red-faced demon screaming in the bathroom.