Jean Nidetch Quotes

Every day of my life, I feel fat. It's not correct thinking in the natural, normal human being's way of life.

Even at the times that I've pushed myself to exhausting limits to get myself at my lightest weight, I did not feel comfortable in that skin.

I used to refer to myself as a 'theoretical anorexic,' just as crazy when it came to body image, but saved by a lack of self-discipline. My daughters do everything better than I do - they're smarter, more beautiful, happier. What if they end up better at anorexia, too?

I've always been the porky boy in my head.

When I wake up in the morning, I feel just like any other insecure 24-year-old girl.

My weight fluctuates, like any normal girl, and I have times when I feel insecure.

I was anorexic in the '60s and '70s, although it wasn't called anorexia then. I thought people would be nicer to me if I looked very small and delicate, so food wasn't high on my agenda. But it is now.

When you doubt one thing about yourself, you start thinking there's also something wrong with your hair, your body, your clothes, your accent.

I don't want to think about how many people have thought or still think that I'm crazy.

There are days where I've lost weight and I feel bigger or fatter or uglier and I want to just hibernate. I'll find every excuse not to exercise. I hate it.

All my life people have made fun of me because I was so skinny. They kind of made me feel bad about it sometimes. I worried that maybe people will think I am really anorexic.

I'm a super-duper over-analyzer. You mix that with self-doubt and pressure, and that's never healthy.

I avoid looking in the mirror.

I was morbidly obese. It was a way for me to create a shell around me so that nobody would look at me.

I have struggled with self-esteem issues since my teens, but it's clear in my first long-ago diary that I didn't start out that way. I acquired my low self-esteem. I learned it.

I remember times putting on my shirt and having to tuck my stomach in because I didn't like the way it looked.

Growing up, I'd always been told that my biggest weakness was my body and how that was probably going to hold me back from accomplishing my dreams.

When I was younger I spent way too much time thinking about me being too fat. So stupid.

Some of the most beautiful people in the whole world wake up some days and they don't think that they're pretty.

I look hot and, most of all, skinny. I love the day after throwing up. I felt like a feather.

Low self esteem involves imagining the worst that other people can think about you.

When I was 16, I filmed an episode of 'Full House' where my family goes to Disney World. I remember putting on baggy overalls just to hide my stomach. When I watched it, I was pretty disappointed and bummed out looking at myself... I didn't feel good about my own body.

I am insecure... because I have to think about what I look like every day.

If I like myself at this weight, then this is what I'm going to be. I don't have an eating disorder.

I used to think I had nice arms, but I don't even think that anymore.