Change happens when you understand what you want to change so deeply that there is no reason to do anything but act in your own best interest.

I tell my retreat students that they need to remember two things: to eat what they want when they're hungry and to feel what they feel when they're not.

Compulsive eating is only the symptom; believing that you are not worth your own love is the problem. Go for the love. You will never be sorry.

Imagine treating yourself with the kindness that you show people you love.

To discover what you really believe, pay attention to the way you act -- and to what you do when things don't go the way you think they should. Pay attention to what you value. Pay attention to how and on what you spend your time. Your money. And pay attention to the way you eat.

You can be aware of your past without being it.

We eat the way we live.