Stop trying to find something in food that will make you feel better. I used to have eating disorders; I'd binge and purge all the time: fried oysters, po' boys, muffulettas, beignets, coffee and doughnuts. I tried to medicate myself with food when people made fun of me or hit me with a bat in school. I'd always turn to food. Knowing what I now know, I'd turn to me.

Yeah, but I do call them back and follow up. Most people talk at overweight people, I talk with them.

When we're binging, we do not think about death. We just think about how good it tastes.

My life is just a never-ending work in progress.

It's my life dream to be able to go and continue going to schools and teaching them about stretching and aerobics, cardio and strength training, because I want them to have a better life than I did. I don't want them to grow up to be me. I want them to be healthy. I want them not to go through eating disorders [like me].

I'm like a stuffed toy. You've never met me, but if you did, you'd just want to take me home and put me in your child's room.

I'm the clown you take out of the box and wind up when you need a good laugh. And then, when you're done with me, I go back in my box.