The F*ck It Diet Quotes

“The desire to heal has to be stronger than your desire to stay in control.”
― Caroline Dooner, The F*ck It Diet: Eating Should Be Easy

“Another one of the most searched phrases that leads people to my site is “I’m so hungry what do I do?” Ummmm . . . What do you think? The fact that we are all wondering how to get rid of hunger instead of just eating is insane. At this point, so many of us are so confused that we now think hunger is some kind of horrible problem that we need to heal with anything but food. But the answer is not tricking your brain by eating on a smaller plate, or filling up on water or caffeine, or trying the newest appetite suppressant herb. Eat. The answer is, eat.”
― Caroline Dooner, The F*ck It Diet: Eating Should Be Easy

“When you eat, you are actually bringing “the earth” into your body—tying you to the planet and keeping you alive. It’s bringing weight to your physical existence. The act of eating and coming back into your body is asking you to accept being human. It is asking us to integrate with the most uncomfortable, messy, earthly, painful, and base parts of our existence.”
― Caroline Dooner, The F*ck It Diet: Eating Should Be Easy

“Your best self is probably the one who trusts yourself the most, is able to relax and be social when you feel like it, and is able to seek quiet time when you need it. Someone who is able to be spontaneous when it suits you, and willing to take up space, speak up, take risks, use your creativity, is willing for things to be messy and imperfect—and is an all-around happier human.”
― Caroline Dooner, The F*ck It Diet: Eating Should Be Easy

“You cannot go through your life without losing and grieving, and if you try to avoid it, that emotion will get stuck and be constantly waiting for you to feel it. My advice on unavoidable pain is the same as always: feel it and honor it. That’s how you process anything. Come back into the body to feel it, use the breathe-and-feel tool, and it will pass in time. It will come in waves. It will teach you how to be human. It’s not necessarily fun, but it’s so incredibly important. And paradoxically, feeling grief and pain will eventually allow you the space to process, and eventually be happy again.”
― Caroline Dooner, The F*ck It Diet: Eating Should Be Easy

“Sugar is addictive like oxygen is addictive. Your body fucking needs it.”
― Caroline Dooner, The F*ck It Diet: Eating Should Be Easy

“Eat and heal your metabolism. Let your body gain weight. Eat carbs. Sleep a lot. Do your lie-down. Say no to things you hate doing. Say yes to things that sound fun. Take personal days. See friends. Eat probiotics or fermented food. Take a supplement to support your adrenals and stress hormones. Breathe deeply. Stretch. Find ways to laugh. Watch or read something life-affirming or heartwarming. When you have energy, move your body in ways you like. Go to your weight-neutral doctor. Get a massage or acupuncture. Go to a therapist you trust. Try new foods. Get out in nature. Get in the sunshine. Put plants in your house.”
― Caroline Dooner, The F*ck It Diet: Eating Should Be Easy

“The desire to heal has to be stronger than your desire to stay in control. The desire to feel discomfort and pain has to become stronger than your desire to numb. The desire to be healthy has to be stronger than your desire to be skinny. It comes down to wanting to be happy more than you want to be beautiful, because if you feel worthy even if you believe you aren’t quite beautiful, you can’t lose.”
― Caroline Dooner, The F*ck It Diet: Eating Should Be Easy

“Life is fully and always happening now.”
― Caroline Dooner, The F*ck It Diet: Eating Should Be Easy

“What’s the medical term for “all I fucking think about is food and dieting and weight and toxins”?”
― Caroline Dooner, The F*ck It Diet: Eating Should Be Easy

“They were fed around 3,200 calories a day, which was considered a normal amount. (Because it is.) They took jobs on the compound and walked around twenty-two miles a week. Then, for six months, their calories were dramatically cut—in half. They were only served two meals a day, which worked out to roughly 1,600 calories total. The participants were encouraged to keep up their walking. In this experiment, 1,600 calories was considered “semi-starvation,” which is really horrifying when you realize that this is the same “conservative protocol” used by the FDA to “combat obesity.” You’ve probably seen that calorie number floating around fitness magazines and doctor-prescribed diets. These days, 1,200–1,600 calories is considered an acceptable daily amount of calories for men and women.”
― Caroline Dooner, The F*ck It Diet: Eating Should Be Easy

“External things are famously unable to make us truly happy.”
― Caroline Dooner, The F*ck It Diet: Eating Should Be Easy

“Pretty soon you’ll be enjoying brownies, not because you’re denied or stressed, but because you fucking want brownies, and then move on with your life.”
― Caroline Dooner, The F*ck It Diet: Eating Should Be Easy

“Flush your Fitbit down the toilet (actually don’t—use the garbage disposal).”
― Caroline Dooner, The F*ck It Diet: Eating Should Be Easy

“REALIZE THAT EXISTENTIAL REST IS MORE, WELL . . . EXISTENTIAL THAN ANYTHING ELSE. It’s about the way you look at your schedule and your obligations and your productivity. It’s the way you look at how deserving of rest and boundaries you are. It’s your way of looking at your to-do list and learning to let yourself off the hook. It’s taking the pressure off while moving forward. It’s your way of understanding how important that vacation is and how important fun and downtime is for your soul and happiness and health. It is the active releasing of shoulds and limiting beliefs and taking the pressure off yourself in any way you can. Rest is partially a state of mind.”
― Caroline Dooner, The F*ck It Diet: Eating Should Be Easy

“Self-care is about being willing to take a time-out and giving yourself what you actually need in that moment”
― Caroline Dooner, The F*ck It Diet: Eating Should Be Easy

“You don’t have to do anything epic in order to have a purpose. You don’t even have to know what your purpose is, and it can change from month to month or year to year. Purposes can be quiet and unassuming and help anchor you into something a little bit less soul-sucking than whether you look cool enough in your new trendy pants, and they can have a ripple effect just based on how you live your life. Instead of worrying about a bigger purpose, just ask yourself, “What do I stand for, today?”You don’t have to be an extrovert or a fighter to let what you stand for quietly infuse the way you walk through the world. Sure, you can organize marches, create subversive art installations, or be an ambassador to a big charity. But you can also express what you stand for in the way you craft gifts for friends once a year, or make people laugh, or in the flowers you plant. It can be small. It can seem innocuous, but it’s not.”
― Caroline Dooner, The F*ck It Diet: Eating Should Be Easy

“Having an appetite or wanting to eat is not weak, it’s being alive.”
― Caroline Dooner, The F*ck It Diet: Eating Should Be Easy

“Accept yourself harder than you think you are allowed to.”
― Caroline Dooner, The F*ck It Diet: Eating Should Be Easy

“Accept yourself harder than you think you are allowed to. Radically accept where you are, even if it feels s”
― Caroline Dooner, The F*ck It Diet: Eating Should Be Easy

“the way we seek things out is the way we will experience them. If we seek out a relationship in insecurity and neediness, we will most likely spend that relationship in the same state, still insecure and needy and seeking constant validation”
― Caroline Dooner, The F*ck It Diet: Eating Should Be Easy

“Instead of being present in our bodies and feeling what’s there, we hang out up in our minds, overthinking everything to death and feeling as little as possible. We have this hope that we can transcend our bodies and fix all of our problems with our minds—but that just doesn’t work.”
― Caroline Dooner, The F*ck It Diet: Eating Should Be Easy

“Your body has always been smarter than you. Your body works on instinct and intuition, both of which have access to really profound information. Your body knows when you need to eat, when you need to sleep, what you need to eat, and even knows when you aren’t on the right path. Your body is where the wisdom is. Trust it.”
― Caroline Dooner, The F*ck It Diet: Eating Should Be Easy

“I’m telling you to sit down, and slow down, and enjoy it, to prove to yourself that you are allowed to eat. Always.”
― Caroline Dooner, The F*ck It Diet: Eating Should Be Easy

“Health is listening to your body.”
― Caroline Dooner, The F*ck It Diet: Eating Should Be Easy

“The answer is to add in nourishment, not take out foods”
― Caroline Dooner, The F*ck It Diet: Eating Should Be Easy

“Food perfectionism has gotten you nowhere. Stress over the food you eat is arguably worse for you than the food itself.”
― Caroline Dooner, The F*ck It Diet: Eating Should Be Easy

“Delicious food is healthy. Please note I did not say healthy food is delicious. I said: DELICIOUS food is healthy”
― Caroline Dooner, The F*ck It Diet: Eating Should Be Easy

“When you are hungry you are supposed to, and allowed to, eat. You are also allowed to get full. And when you finish your food, and are still hungry, you didn’t eat enough. It’s that simple.”
― Caroline Dooner, The F*ck It Diet: Eating Should Be Easy

“unlearn all of the things that made you stop trusting yourself. And you will have to relearn all of the things that will allow you to trust yourself again.”
― Caroline Dooner, The F*ck It Diet: Eating Should Be Easy