It's important to focus on the good in life and appreciate it.

Take time to thank your body.

You are not your past, not your habits, not your compulsions. When you get to know who you are, anything becomes possible.

No act of love is ever wasted.

Weight loss does not make people happy. Or peaceful. Being thin does not address the emptiness that has no shape or weight or name. Even a wildly successful diet is a colossal failure because inside the new body is the same sinking heart.

And if you worry that not finishing the food on your plate is a slap in the face of all the hungry people everywhere, you are not living in reality. The truth is that you either throw the food out or you throw it in, but either way it turns to waste. World hunger will not be solved by finishing the garlic mashed potatoes on your plate.

For every diet there's an equal and opposite binge (bulimia which is binging and purging is another way of depriving yourself).