Brigid Berlin Quotes

I wish I didn't like sweets as much as I do. I wish I didn't get carried away sometimes.

I've never eaten just a few bites of things I liked in my life.

Now just the thought of eating ice cream puts pounds on me.

My eating habits are the only behaviour of mine that are still manic. I can't walk by a restaurant, a bakery, an ice-cream store or a candy store without making a purchase; the amount of calories I take in today are at least five times as many as I took before starting on all of this medication.

Before you open the lunch menu or order that cheeseburger or consider eating the cake with the frosting intact, haul out the psychic calculator and start tinkering with the budget.

It's so difficult. Sometimes if I have dessert, I think, 'Well, I blew it.' That's something I need to work on and control. But still there's nothing like a buffet.

But bread is different. I come from Czechoslovakia, where we eat lots of it, so it's hard to say no. I can't even have one piece, because when I start, I don't stop.

You know those days when you think you have to have a plate of pasta right now? When I'm trying to be good, I take a minute to ask myself, 'Do you really need to eat all this crazy stuff? It will still be around if you want it later.'

If you tell me I can't eat something, I'll obsess over it and end up overeating!

There are lots of things I won't eat but would like to, such as croissants or ice cream - if I started, I'd scoff the whole tub.

I'm naturally greedy and would end up the size of a house if I ate all I wanted all of the time.

I realized that I had an eating disorder in which I controlled myself to a point that I would not let myself enjoy what I wanted to eat or eat what I needed to eat, all to stay a certain size.

When I eat out, I tend to go for the things I like instead of the things I need.

The biscuit tin shouldn't be handy - move it about a bit. Try to keep it out of the way.

I know I can eat a lot. Normally, at home, I finish my steak, eat the rest of my fiancee's steak, and think about eating the two that are still left on the grill. I just can't stop eating.

It's so hard to diet because I love food.

One time, my mother told me that I always eat like I'll never see food again. And I said, "I won't unless I bring it home." That shut her up.

Eating a little was like vomiting a little, just as bad as a lot.

Eating sundaes is something you can't do every night.

When you can stop you don't want to, and when you want to stop, you can't.

There are two areas where you can't stop people misbehaving: eating and sex

Anger is like a flame blazing up and consuming our self-control, making us think, say, and do things that we will probably regret later.

If I were thin, I'd never say 'I am powerless over fudge.' a) I can't believe I actually ever said that. b) Which, of course, isn't to say that I do have any power over fudge. Particularly if it has nuts.

Wives and such are constantly filling up any refrigerator they have a claim on, even its ice-compartment, with irrelevant rubbish like food.

You feel better in the short run when you have a tub of ice cream, but in the long run, you don't.