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If you want to eat when you're not hungry, you're hungry for something else.
Geneen Roth
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The problem isn't that we have bodies the problem is that we're not living in them.
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Bingeing is such an emotionally frenetic activity that no other concerns can exist in the same space. It is a hell that people who are food-sensitive are familiar with and, because it is known, it is therefore not so terrifying as some of the problems that are outside our control. Problems like divorce, illness, death.
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