Inspirations

31 FACEBOOK QUOTES

1. "By letting go of dieting, I free up mental and emotional room. I have more space, I can move. The pursuit of another, elusive body, the body someone else says I should have, is a terrible distraction, a side-tracking that might have lasted my whole life long. By letting myself go, I go places." – Sallie Tisdale


2. "Realize that every moment you spend hating your body is a wasted moment of your life" – Jean Hanff Korelitz


3. “As a thin (white, able-bodied, etc.) person I cannot fathom what it must be like to have others take it upon themselves to hate my body for me. As I’ve said before, if you think fat people have no self-discipline, consider the fact that they haven’t killed you yet.” – Robin “Miss Conduct” Abrahams


4. “Yes, obesity is to blame for all the evils of modern life, except somehow, weirdly, it is not killing people enough. In fact, that’s why there are all these fat people around. They just won’t die.” – Katherine Flegal


5. “A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty … [It is] an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women’s history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one.” – Naomi Wolf


6. The more we develop the habit of noticing goodness, the more our own sense of wellbeing increases. -- Brahma Kumaris


7. “Sometimes I forget when I see [Weight Watchers] commercials with the fun Cher song and these gorgeous larger empowered-looking women dancing around. Then I remember the reality of Weight Watchers and the imitation butter spray and counting the points in mustard, for Pete’s sake. That plan always worked for me temporarily before I ended it looking up how many activity points I earned for a fit of seething rage.” – Ami


8. “The thin person inside me finally got out — it just turned out she was actually a fat person.” – Kate Harding


9. “Our culture has no concept of a fat person who also has an eating disorder. If you’re fat, it’s not an ED — it’s a lifestyle change.” – Lesley Kinzel


10. “Why do we call it the ‘weight loss industry’ when what we really get for our time, sacrifice, and money is weight cycling? … Imagine if we called it the “weight cycling industry,” and “weight cycling programs.”  Would you participate in Weight Cyclers at work?  Buy food from NutriCycle?  Hire a trainer from the Biggest Weight Cycler? As a physician, would you prescribe weight cycling for your patients?” – Deb Burgard


11. “Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.” – Audre Lorde


12. “Whoever came up with the idea of making dieting about health is simply brilliant. Now, society can be prejudiced, but it is ok because it's about health. Now, you are not shallow if you focus all your attention on dieting, you are righteous. And, whoa be to you who do not diet – for thou art sinning!”—Lonie McMichael


13. “If you’re too focused on weight loss, on days when the scale goes up you feel crappy — even if you should be feeling nourished by your healthy foods and energized by your workouts. If you stop measuring your success and self-worth by numbers, you get to enjoy your real successes a lot more.” – Fillyjonk


14. “Nothing’s so attractive as the forbidden. If HAES ever catches on, people might start to notice that a great deal of junk food tastes like ass.” – Kate Harding


15. “At the core, HAES isn't about following a conventionally ‘healthy’ way of eating, or about being physically active. HAES is about thinking about these issues and deciding, as an independent and self-aware adult, what feels best to you and how to live your life. It's about treating yourself with compassion, and about understanding, forgiving, and making room for your limitations. It is never about guilt or about being good or bad.” – Deeleigh


16. “Self-loathing is not a fucking character-builder. It doesn’t make you stronger. It doesn’t make you better. It’s just an ever-deepening, creepy-ass trap; a trap that is a huge moneymaker for corporations that do not have and never will have good intentions. You’re not disgusting. You’re not freakish. You’re not ugly. And you’re never going to be perfect. And holy shit, that is so okay.” – Jane


17. “Everyone of you has a health that is unique and totally different from everybody else. Completely! Because we... are all like snowflakes.” – Lewis Black


18. "People always ask me, 'You have so much confidence. Where did that come from?' It came from me. One day I decided that I was beautiful, and so I carried out my life as if I was a beautiful girl. I wear colors that I really like, I wear makeup that makes me feel pretty, and it really helps. It doesn't have anything to do with how the world perceives you. What matters is what you see. Your body is your temple, it's your home, and you must decorate it." – Gabourey Sidibe


19. “The only weight problem I have is the problem you have with my weight.” – Dr. Deah Schwartz


20. "If it's not your body, it's not your business." – Kath Read


21. “I'm not "the heavy". I'm "the abundant.” – Andrea Fuehrer


22. "Loving one's body is directly opposed to consumerism. If I love who I am, then I will not believe you when you tell me I must be new and improved, I must not age, I cannot be sexy, I cannot be disabled. Loving one's body means demanding joy instead of satiation, achievement instead of improvement, intimacy instead of thrills." -- Pattie Thomas


23. “In short the HAES approach does not mean giving up on your body, but rather owning and inhabiting your body in a special way.” – Jeannette DePatie


24. “I once heard a Turkish woman say they don't make New Year's resolutions.  Instead they make wishes for themselves.  I like this much better than resolutions, because resolutions set us up for failure, which none of us really need.” – Louise Mathewson


25. "The body is a universe in itself and must be held as sacred as anything in creation....It is dangerous to forget the body as sacramental." – May Sarton


26. "You must be very careful in the use of a mirror. It teaches an actor to watch the outside rather than the inside of his soul." – Stanislavski


27. "I love beauty, and there is no animal or human beauty, to me, that can surpass that of a fat woman. Like white, sandy beaches and bursting, bright flowers, she is something the world is far better off for having known and felt and seen." – Paul Delacroix


28. "The truth is that there is no 'before' or 'after,' only 'during.' As long as we are alive we are in process." – Pat Lyons & Deb Burgard


29. "I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me." – Anaïs Nin


30. "The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product. She is meant to imagine herself transformed by the product into an object of envy for others, an envy which will then justify her loving herself." – John Berger


31. "The point that I’m trying to make is that if you are struggling with mobility, or with body confidence, and you feel like you would move better, or like your body more if you were lighter, then based on both science and hearsay you might consider putting some energy towards being stronger." – Ragen Chastain

31 TWITTER QUOTES (less than 140 characters)

1. "Realize that every moment you spend hating your body is a wasted moment of your life" – Jean Hanff Korelitz


2. "Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women’s history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one." – Naomi Wolf


3. "The thin person inside me finally got out — it just turned out she was actually a fat person." – Kate Harding


4. "TO HELL WITH TINY PANTS." – Fillyjonk


5. "Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare." – Audre Lorde  


6. "I didn't celebrate the end of dieting with a huge cake." -- Lara Frater


7. "The only weight problem I have is the problem you have with my weight." – Dr. Deah Schwartz


8. "If it's not your body, it's not your business." – Kath Read


9. "Let resolutions die along with diets this year. Instead, create peace and heal with your body." – More of Me to Love


10. "I'm not 'the heavy.' I'm 'the abundant.'" – Andrea Fuehrer


11. "If you think fat people have no self-discipline, consider the fact that they haven’t killed you yet. – Miss Conduct


12. "To enjoy the flavor of life take big bites." – Robert Heinlein


13. "Our body is precious. It is a vehicle for awakening. Treat it with care." – Buddha


14. "The truth is that there is no 'before' or 'after,' only 'during.' As long as we are alive we are in process." –Lyons & Burgard


15. "The first day of your next diet brings you one day closer to your next binge." – Kelly Bliss


16. "Does this movement make me look fat?" Arwen talking of Fat Acceptance


17. "Your weight isn’t usually what makes people feel bad. Negative social messages make us feel bad." – Marilyn Wann


18. "We’ve studied this from many perspectives … we get the same answer: It’s not the obesity—it’s the fitness." – Steven Blair


19. "You take care of yourself and let your weight take care of itself." – Kelly Bliss


20. "So sit down and share a piece of pie with great Aunt Mary.   After all, how many more pies will there be?" – Deb Lemire


21. "Refuse to fight in an unjust war. Join the new peace movement: Health at Every Size." – Linda Bacon


22. "Fat is just an adjective and should not be used as a moral indictment or diagnosis." – Thomas & Wilkerson


23. "Belly Bump: the secret handshake of the body liberated. Shhhh…" – Marilyn Wann


24. "Size doesn’t matter. You do." – More of Me to Love


25. "Making New Year’s Resolutions is like dieting. They set us up for failure. So I don’t do either." – Pat Ballard


26. "May all your troubles last as long as your New Year's resolutions." – Joey Adams 


27. "A good resolution is like an old horse, which is often saddled but rarely ridden." – Mexican Proverb


28. "Another year to live! To banish worry, doubt, and fear, to love and laugh and give!" – William Arthur Ward


29. "I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance." – bell hooks


30. "One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well." – Virginia Woolf


31. "Life is too short for self-hatred and celery sticks." – Marilyn Wann

HAES® Inspirations A list of daily affirmations that include:

• Joyful Movement
• Intuitive Eating
• Pampering/Self Care
• Self Esteem/Acceptance
• Connecting with Others
• Connecting with the larger HAES® community

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