The Anti-Diet Approach to Weight Loss and Weight Control Quotes

“You stop accepting yourself and stop connecting three realms of the triangle of awareness within you. You fail to realize that this is mistaken notion that "a lighter you is a happier you" isn't making you happier at all.”
― Scott Abel, The Anti-Diet Approach to Weight Loss and Weight Control

“You have an eating disorder if diet and food negatively impact your life and add stress where natural calm energy would usually be.”
― Scott Abel, The Anti-Diet Approach to Weight Loss and Weight Control

“Diet/food/eating should NEVER be the means by which you objectify yourself, disconnect from yourself, judge yourself, or worst of all, reject and hate yourself.”
― Scott Abel, The Anti-Diet Approach to Weight Loss and Weight Control

“The security (emotional security, spiritual security, intrapersonal security) that you think being thin or lean will provide you is just an illusion. Leanness and weight-loss will not deliver these securities to you.”
― Scott Abel, The Anti-Diet Approach to Weight Loss and Weight Control

“The most common denominator among all people who diet – “serial dieters” if you will – isn’t in the physical realm. The most common denominator among all people who diet takes place in the emotional realm. Do you have it yet?  SELF-CRITICISM is the most common denominator among all people who identify themselves as “dieters.”  You constantly”
― Scott Abel, The Anti-Diet Approach to Weight Loss and Weight Control

“When your life’s focus becomes taken over and swallowed by food and diet – what to eat, how to eat, what you can’t eat, what you ‘have to’ eat, what you weigh, the right vs. the wrong foods, the good vs. the bad foods, the healthy vs. the indulgent foods, the right diet vs. the wrong diet, what other people will think – then doesn’t this list make it obvious that food and diet become a black-hole of thought and emotion and of wasted spiritual focus and psychic energy? While”
― Scott Abel, The Anti-Diet Approach to Weight Loss and Weight Control

“if you are led to believe carbs are bad then you fear them, and you try to cut out potatoes, yams, rice, whatever. These become your ‘fear foods’ and it can get pretty ridiculous. For example, people who buy into the notion of high vs. low glycemic carbs are told to cut out carrots for example, so that a completely healthy and useful food becomes a ‘fear food.’ When”
― Scott Abel, The Anti-Diet Approach to Weight Loss and Weight Control

“Real wellness habits transcend being told what to eat.  For”
― Scott Abel, The Anti-Diet Approach to Weight Loss and Weight Control

“Think about it. The industry generates billions of dollars of profit and revenue each year. They do so by selling answers. But if they had the answers, then these so-called answers would just be copied and pasted and handed out, and the industry itself would crumble.”
― Scott Abel, The Anti-Diet Approach to Weight Loss and Weight Control

“You fail to realize the fundamental truth: inevitable failure is what drives and sustains the diet-industry.  They don’t want you to master weight-control, because if you do, they’ve lost a customer.  But you can’t see it. You can’t see that the mentality involved is just all wrong and discombobulated. The focus on food is also all wrong. But you think there must be magic in that focus. And that becomes part of your diet-mentality”
― Scott Abel, The Anti-Diet Approach to Weight Loss and Weight Control

“And conversely, didn’t you know that the reverse is true as well? For within this message is another, more insidious message.  If a lighter and leaner you is a better you, then if you are currently overweight, then of course you are led to believe that you are not “good enough” just the way you are right now.  And from here the personal angst begins.”
― Scott Abel, The Anti-Diet Approach to Weight Loss and Weight Control

“The message of the diet-industry is that you can’t possibly be spiritually and personally fulfilled unless you are leaner and lighter.”
― Scott Abel, The Anti-Diet Approach to Weight Loss and Weight Control

“The subliminal message of the diet-industry is that you should care (intensely) about your weight. Most people are prone to a certain level of body-consciousness anyway, since it is a biological and cultural imperative. What the diet-industry does is spin this and magnify and exaggerate the emphasis of body-consciousness. It puts body-consciousness on steroids.”
― Scott Abel, The Anti-Diet Approach to Weight Loss and Weight Control