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

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

Most of our suffering comes from resisting what is already here, particularly our feelings. All any feeling wants is to be welcomed, touched, allowed. It wants attention. It wants kindness. If you treated your feelings with as much love as you treated your dog or your cat or your child, you'd feel as if you were living in heaven every day of your sweet life.

Separate the desire to be thin from the desire to be cherished.

I live between fearing doom and wishing for it.

It's never been true, not anywhere at any time, that the value of a soul, of a human spirit, is dependent on a number on a scale. We are unrepeatable beings of light and space and water who need these physical vehicles to get around. When we start defining ourselves by that which can be measured or weighed, something deep within us rebels. We don't want to EAT hot fudge sundaes as much as we want our lives to BE hot fudge sundaes. We want to come home to ourselves.

If you think your job is to fix what is broken, you keep finding more broken places to mend.