Weight (too much or too little) is a by-product. Weight is what happens when you use food to flatten your life. Even with aching joints, it's not about food. Even with arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure. It's about your desire to flatten your life. It's about the fact that you've given up without saying so. It's about your belief that it's not possible to live any other way - and you're using food to act that out without ever having to admit it.

The purpose of a spiritual path or religion is to provide a precise and believable way into what seems unbelievable.

I live between fearing doom and wishing for it.

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

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

Staying requires being curious about who you actually are when you don't take yourself to be a collection of memories.When you don't infer your existence from replaying what happened to you, when you don't take yourself to be the girl your mother/father/brother/teacher/lover didn't see or adore. When you sense yourself directly, immediately, right now, without preconception, who are you?

You are not a mistake. You are not a problem to be solved. Treat yourself with outrageous kindness beginning today.