Eat to Love Quotes

“Mindful eating has roots in a Zen Buddhist tradition called oryoki, translated as just enough.”
― Jenna Hollenstein, Eat to Love: A Mindful Guide to Transforming Your Relationship with Food, Body, and Life

“For example, if we eat past the point of satisfaction or comfortable fullness, it is not because our intentions are bad but because we are confused as to what our true needs are in the moment.”
― Jenna Hollenstein, Eat to Love: A Mindful Guide to Transforming Your Relationship with Food, Body, and Life

“Put simply, when free from fat stigma, it is possible for all bodies to achieve health and wellbeing. Yet diets remain monolithically prominent in mainstream culture. With about half the American population trying to lose weight right now (that’s almost 180 million people) and spending major coin to that end ($66 billion in 2017, according to a Marketdata research report), one might conclude that dieting has replaced baseball as the national pastime. Why? Diets are seductive. They make empty but attractive promises.”
― Jenna Hollenstein, Eat to Love: A Mindful Guide to Transforming Your Relationship with Food, Body, and Life

“There are famous studies that position two functional MRI images of the brain side by side: one on heroin, for example, and one on sugar. They claim that because the pleasure centers of the brain light up in both images, both substances act on the brain similarly. What they do not include is how the brain lights up while walking outside on the first beautiful spring day, falling in love, or having an orgasm. One of the cornerstones of addiction is a drive to acquire the desired substance in any form.”
― Jenna Hollenstein, Eat to Love: A Mindful Guide to Transforming Your Relationship with Food, Body, and Life

“we end up spending more on beauty and body-related products than on education. Sadly, because of our magical eating, we are more likely to suffer from depression, anxiety, disordered eating (and, in some cases, eating disorders), and to have lower self-confidence, ambition, cognitive function, and achievement. This is a direct result of the message that our worth is based on our weight and of that message’s impact on our thoughts, feelings, behaviors, and how we live our lives.”
― Jenna Hollenstein, Eat to Love: A Mindful Guide to Transforming Your Relationship with Food, Body, and Life

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― Jenna Hollenstein, Eat to Love: A Mindful Guide to Transforming Your Relationship with Food, Body, and Life

“Dieting often leads to a pattern of weight-loss-and-regain, also known as weight cycling, which is actually associated with many of the negative health consequences usually attributed to being in a bigger body in the first place.”
― Jenna Hollenstein, Eat to Love: A Mindful Guide to Transforming Your Relationship with Food, Body, and Life