It's never been true, not anywhere at anytime, that the value of a soul, of a human spirit, is dependent on a number on a scale.

If you treat your feelings with as much love as you treat your dog or your cat or your child you'll feel as if you were living in heaven.

The way we do anything is the way we do everything. The way we eat is the way we live.

Chocolate ... is not something you can take or leave, something you like only moderately. You dont like chocolate. You dont even love chocolate. Chocolate is something you have an affair with.

You will never stop wanting more until you allow yourself to have what you already have. To take it in. Savor it. Now is a good time to do that . . .

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.

Ask yourself if you are in this for the long run-if it's only your weight you want to change or if you are willing to use your eating patterns as a portal to the inner universe. And if the answer is the latter, then there is no end to what you can learn, be, understand, become.