What's Eating Us Quotes

“I loved a good bulimia joke and even sometimes initiated them, like after a dinner out with friends, "I'd better run home and throw this up." We all laughed; my girlfriends said similar things. But I was actually going home and doing it. I didn't know at the time that many of them were, too.”
― Cole Kazdin, What's Eating Us: Women, Food, and the Epidemic of Body Anxiety

“I don’t want to be still consumed with weight when I’m seventy.”
― Cole Kazdin, What's Eating Us: Women, Food, and the Epidemic of Body Anxiety

“It’s difficult to imagine a world where I’m not thinking about food or my body, where I’m not wanting to change it”
― Cole Kazdin, What's Eating Us: Women, Food, and the Epidemic of Body Anxiety

“To be recovered is to inhabit one’s body and to experience food and exercise in ways that are not ruled by concern over size, shape, and numbers,”
― Cole Kazdin, What's Eating Us: Women, Food, and the Epidemic of Body Anxiety

“The body neutrality movement alleviates some of that beauty pressure, advancing the notion that self-love doesn’t have to be the goal, and that a person can take care of and appreciate their body, without loving it or thinking about it too much. “Imagine just not thinking about your body,” actor Jameela Jamil told Glamour in 2019.3 “You’re not hating it. You’re not loving it. You’re just a floating head.”
― Cole Kazdin, What's Eating Us: Women, Food, and the Epidemic of Body Anxiety

“Back to that term “normative discontent”—as in, it’s totally normal to dislike your body, everyone’s doing it. It was coined by researchers to describe how prevalent women’s body dissatisfaction is, for all women, at all sizes. If an estimated 90 percent of women aren’t satisfied with their bodies, then statistically speaking, if a woman is happy with her body, comfortable in her skin, and satisfied with the way she looks, she’s basically on the fringes of society. Atypical.”
― Cole Kazdin, What's Eating Us: Women, Food, and the Epidemic of Body Anxiety

“It’s hard to know at what point “watching what you eat” or “getting healthy” becomes an eating disorder.”
― Cole Kazdin, What's Eating Us: Women, Food, and the Epidemic of Body Anxiety