Overeating Quotes (30 quotes) (2024)

“Overeating is the addiction of choice of carers, and that's why it's come to be regarded as the lowest-ranking of all the addictions. It's a way of f*cking yourself up while still remaining fully functional, because you have to. Fat people aren't indulging in the "luxury" of their addiction making them useless, chaotic, or a burden. Instead, they are slowly self-destructing in a way that doesn't inconvenience anyone. And that's why it's so often a woman's addiction of choice. All the quietly eating mums. All the KitKats in office drawers. All the unhappy moments, late at night, caught only in the fridge light.”
― Caitlin Moran, How to Be a Woman

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“If you just stop expecting perfection from everyone and everything, you might see the good stuff outweighs the bad. And then someday you'll look in the mirror and see the same thing. Because the person you're most disappointed in is yourself.”
― Erin Jade Lange, Butter

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“Everlasting pain is often caused by the pursuit of fleeting pleasure.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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“Truth: last week I online shopped too much. Then I ate 2 pounds of jelly beans to feel better about that. In fact, while I was trying to read soul-nourishing things all I could think about was shopping and jellybeans. Points to the monkey mind.”
― Anna White, Mended: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Leaps of Faith

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“When times are bad, people feel compelled to overeat.”
― Don DeLillo, White Noise

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“Leave something on your plate... 'Better to go to waste than to waist”
― Michael Pollan, Food Rules: An Eater's Manual

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“More often than not, expecting to lose weight without first losing the diet that made the weight loss necessary is like expecting a pig to be spotless after hosing it down while it was still rolling in mud.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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“Our eyes are meant to show us food when we are hungry, not to make us hungry when we see food.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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“Overeating regularly eventually leads to underliving.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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“In some cases, people with a body (whose size) they did not long for are victims of having a bank balance (whose size) they longed for.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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“People who died of starvation are not nearly as pitiful as those who died of overeating.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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“An over-eating mouth tortures whole body and over-speaking mouth tortures everybody.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

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“Fortunately, some people eat a lot or drink only on special occasions. Unfortunately, they see every—or almost every—day of their lives as a special occasion.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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“Most people stop eating not when their stomachs are full but when their plates are empty.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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“fanny-pack: (v.) to put on a few extra pounds during the holiday season.”
― Sol Luckman, The Angel's Dictionary

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“You can feel like you will starve to death if you do not eat within 21 seconds; not eat at all; and still be alive after 21 days.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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“Maybe you can imagine this in your own life. We no longer look at the sun but at our phones to see what kind of time has passed. We don't look out of our cells but at our cell, flipping to a social media stream and scrolling through what our friends are doing. While we scroll, we develop a resentment that our lives are less fun and fulfilling than the lives of our friends.
The here and now, the people who are around and present, pale in front of the manicured and curated versions of another person's life. We begin to wonder, like Evagrius, if we have lost the love of our friends, and we begin to believe that there is "none to comfort" us.
So we fill our evenings with overeating, because it feels comforting, or binge-watching our favorite show, because we are so tired that we just need to "relax." We split our attention between the screen of the television and the screen of our phones. Indeed, one of the most effective ways to avoid the gnawing questions of meaning is by staying busy enough to avoid them. A constant flow of information and distraction turns the mind and the heart away from the abyss of asking why. Why do we worry about tomorrow? Why do we toil and reap? What is the treasure of great price that all our lives are working toward?
When we do pause between activities, we try to fill the void. We forget that we are more than our work or the things that we produce. Our busyness represents a profound loss of freedom, and one that occurs through a gradual winnowing away of what it means to be human. We replace that it means to be a person with a shallowness of activity”
― Timothy McMahan King, Addiction Nation: What the Opioid Crisis Reveals about Us

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“We become fat by overeating, not by not exercising.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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“Some people eat to quench hunger, and some eat just to satisfy their gluttony.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

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“We need to not let food master us and take the throne of our lives. We need to make food submit to us, rather than us submitting to food. No one can serve two masters. We cannot serve money and God, and we cannot serve food and God.”
― Lisa Bedrick, How to Walk Worthy of Your Calling

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“Wolsey and Henry VIII, it has to be said, were not exceptional in their love of the table. The English of Tudor times had a reputation throughout Europe for gluttony. Indeed, overeating was regarded as the English vice in the same way that lust was the French one and drunkenness that of the Germans (although looking at the amount of alcohol consumed in England, I expect the English probably ran a close second to the Germans).”
― Clarissa Dickson Wright, A History of English Food

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“Things only got worse as I packed on more pounds and the activitities I allowed myself to take part in became even more limited. It's not that I didn'T go on diets or try to control what I was eating many times over the years; I did. But the compulsion to overeat was to strong that the moments of weakness far overwhelmed the temporary victories I achieved.”
― Nancy Makin, 703: How I Lost More Than a Quarter Ton and Gained a Life

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“Eating is ecstasy; overeating is lunacy.”
― Amar Chandel

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“Excess in eating leads to laziness in fulfilling obligatory duties such as prayer, as well as other recommended acts. It increases the likelihood of disobedience by instigating desires and reducing self-control. A person is more likely to become angry, for example, after having overindulged. The mind also functions less effectively on a full stomach, and this has been confirmed by scientific research. When the stomach is full, more blood goes to that area to process the food, leaving less blood available for the brain.”
― Aisha Utz, Psychology from the Islamic Perspective

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“The most dangerous things in life are overeating and the lack of ambition.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

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