Desires collide; the wish to eat bumping up against the wish to be thin, the desire to indulge conflicting with the injunction to restrain. Small wonder food makes a woman nervous.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
People think that if you have a huge appetite, then you'll be better at it. But actually, it's how you confront the food that is brought to you. You have to be mentally and psychologically prepared.
It is the food which you furnish to your mind that determines the whole character of your life.
Eating constitutes the greatest obstacle to self-control; it gives rise to indolence.
What people need to know is that if you don't eat what you want, then you'll just continue to eat, because you're not fulfilled.
My relationship to food is that of an acrophobe to a bridge. Unease masks a desire to jump.
Food is a coping mechanism; people are afraid of giving it up because then they'll feel confused and lost.
Food is intensely pleasurable, and people are afraid that if they change the way they eat, they'll stop having pleasure.
When it becomes hard for me not to eat bad food, I try to think about what I have to do and what is ahead of me and what I want to achieve.
Many people submit to excessive appetites without realizing that they do not need to eat so much food.
Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.