Why Do You Overeat? When All You Want Is To Be Slim Quotes

“The goal of this book is, therefore, to enable you to be free from food addiction. You now know that calorie counting will make you hungry and liable to crave anything just to get some fuel into your tank. You also know that Candida, Food Intolerance and Hypoglycaemia can all give you incredibly powerful food cravings for specific foods or groups of foods. You also know that the good news is that you can free yourself from these intense food cravings in as few as five days. If Candida is a problem for you then it can take a bit longer for food cravings to disappear but, even with Candida, cravings will subside dramatically during the five day kick-start eating plan.”
― Zoe Harcombe, Why Do You Overeat? When All You Want Is To Be Slim

“One of my favourite pieces of research was done by Barry Groves showing that cocoa butter – yes dark chocolate – has approximately 5.5, not 9, calories per gram”
― Zoe Harcombe, Why Do You Overeat? When All You Want Is To Be Slim

“You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.”
― Zoe Harcombe, Why Do You Overeat? When All You Want Is To Be Slim

“two things needed to happen for children to have a good long term relationship with their parents 1) the 'parent-child' relationship needs to be broken and replaced with 'adult-adult' and 2) the adults need to have something in common, so that there is the foundation for a relationship.”
― Zoe Harcombe, Why Do You Overeat? When All You Want Is To Be Slim

“When I first came across Tolle, I was astounded to see how many times a day I 'beat myself up' and/or ran over a conversation in my head and criticised myself and/or wished I had done something differently etc. First you notice yourself doing it and then you drop it. Someone asks Tolle in the book – but how do you just drop something that is running round in your head? "How would you drop a hot lump of coal?" he replies. Let's start just dropping it!”
― Zoe Harcombe, Why Do You Overeat? When All You Want Is To Be Slim

“-The four pillars of childhood are necessary for optimal emotional development of the formative child and thus the adults. These are: 1) Unconditional love and positive reinforcement from our parents and/or primary carers. 2) Discipline – All children need accompanying boundaries to go with this unconditional love. 3) Encouragement and respect from our parents and/or primary carers, during the formative years (and beyond) for our own personal development. 4) Self Control – By this we mean "control of the self", the sense of control for oneself – feeling safe and having one's own space.”
― Zoe Harcombe, Why Do You Overeat? When All You Want Is To Be Slim

“If you can harness anger to good effect – be angry that food manufacturers are doing everything that they can to get you to eat as much of their rubbish as possible. They are advertising to you – overtly and subconsciously; they are working hard to make their products irresistible and moreish. Be very angry about this – not just what they are doing to you – but to our next generation. Be determined not to give them a penny of your hard earned cash – you can then gain health and wealth.”
― Zoe Harcombe, Why Do You Overeat? When All You Want Is To Be Slim

“John Yudkin, Pure, White and Deadly, (1972), Relaunched 2012.”
― Zoe Harcombe, Why Do You Overeat? When All You Want Is To Be Slim

“If you want to focus on just one substance to give up – put all your effort into giving up sugar and this alone will ensure that you can't eat the vast majority of processed food and this will have immeasurable benefit on your health and weight.”
― Zoe Harcombe, Why Do You Overeat? When All You Want Is To Be Slim

“a woman with a BMI of 35 has 93 times the risk of developing type 2 diabetes[27] (a different study for men concluded that the risk was very similar[28]). A BMI of 35 would be an average height woman (5'4") weighing 14 stone 7 lbs (203lb) – that's not breathtakingly high. Sometimes we may think that it is vain to worry about our weight – it's not vain – it's life preserving.”
― Zoe Harcombe, Why Do You Overeat? When All You Want Is To Be Slim

“You must take responsibility for what you put in your body and vow to put nothing in if you don't know what it is or if you know what it is and it's not good for you. There is nothing more important than your health (physical, emotional, mental and spiritual).”
― Zoe Harcombe, Why Do You Overeat? When All You Want Is To Be Slim

“It is said that we can develop a new habit and break an old one in as few as 21 days. This should, therefore, be the longest time that we need to be consciously competent – working hard at doing the right thing every day. Beyond that we will find ourselves doing things automatically.”
― Zoe Harcombe, Why Do You Overeat? When All You Want Is To Be Slim

“The four mind levels You may have come across this tool in coaching sessions about changing habits – we operate at four levels when we do and think things. The lowest level is unconscious incompetence – we are not aware that we are doing the wrong things. The next level is conscious incompetence – we are still doing the wrong things, but we now know that we are doing the wrong things – we have become the watcher. The third level is conscious competence – we start doing the right things, but it is not second nature. We have to be aware of what we are doing at all times. The ultimate level that we are striving for is unconscious competence – we do the right things without even having to think about it. It really is second nature.”
― Zoe Harcombe, Why Do You Overeat? When All You Want Is To Be Slim

“High fat/protein, zero carbohydrate diets have a dramatic impact on weight loss. This is because a diet with no carbohydrates in effect stops the production of insulin. If you eat nothing but fat and protein, for even a short period of time, despite the fact that your calorie intake may be high, you will see rapid weight loss.”
― Zoe Harcombe, Why Do You Overeat? When All You Want Is To Be Slim

“In this magnificent human body there is a mechanism which is trying to maintain a blood glucose level of approximately 65 to 110mg per 100cc of blood. How the body does this at all, let alone given what we eat, is just amazing.”
― Zoe Harcombe, Why Do You Overeat? When All You Want Is To Be Slim