American - Businesswoman | October 12, 1923 - April 29, 2015
Food is not your remedy for problems. Food is not going to change your life. If you are lonely, food is not going to be your company. If you are sad, food is not going to give you solace.
Jean Nidetch
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I'm sure that my compulsive eating habits began when I was a baby.
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You take away the handicap of obesity, and this person becomes someone else. Take a jolly fat man for instance. You talk to him, and his heart is breaking. He wants to be thin.
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Compulsive eating is an emotional problem, and we use an emotional approach to its solution.
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For the first few years after I lost weight, I would feel for my hip bones every morning when I woke up so I would know I wasn't fat. It was like pinching myself so I'd know I wasn't dreaming.
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I would work every day if I could.
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