Martina McBride Quotes

Here's how it is: I feel guilty about every single bite of food that goes into my mouth.

Everything that goes into my mouth seems to make me fat, everything that comes out of my mouth embarrasses me.

I'm a bad person.

I've learnt that if I tell myself I'm not allowed something, I binge on it later. So if I want chocolate, I have chocolate. If I want biscuits, I have biscuits. I love cake. I just love cake.

What people need to know is that if you don't eat what you want, then you'll just continue to eat, because you're not fulfilled.

The only exercise I got as a kid was fork to mouth. Food was equated with love in my household. I thought you left the table when the zipper was down and you'd explode if you took another bite. I'd eat my plate and then everyone else's leftovers.

I try not to diet because it never really works for me, if I tell myself I can't eat something then I tend to want to eat everything in sight.

Desires collide; the wish to eat bumping up against the wish to be thin, the desire to indulge conflicting with the injunction to restrain. Small wonder food makes a woman nervous.

What is guilt? Guilt is the pledge drive constantly hammering in our heads that keeps us from fully enjoying the show. Guilt is the reason they put the articles in Playboy.

Because you're fat, you feel that everybody's watching every bite you take. So, you closet-eat, and you think because nobody sees you eating, then you're not eating. You know, if you're eating a Big Mac in a closed car, can anybody hear you nosh? If I ate only what people saw me eat, I would've probably been about 170 pounds.

I don't stop eating when I'm full. The meal isn't over when I'm full. It's over when I hate myself.

I hate the past - especially my own past.

Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you that you are the man she thinks you are.

If a movie is received badly, and I'm in only one scene of it, I still feel responsible. I feel like it was my fault at all times. If people were like, 'This movie sucks!' I'd be like, 'Well, that's because I'm terrible.'

I used to eat because food tastes so good. I love food, it's one of the best things on this planet. But I changed the way I was thinking. I started asking myself, 'Hey, am I eating because it tastes good? Or because I really need some more? Am I really still hungry?'

I feel bad that I don't feel worse.

I felt that I ostracized myself by my behavior, by the past, by living with all the regrets of my mistakes, that I sort of wore a hair shirt and beat myself up most of the day thinking and regretting why did I make such a mistake? Why have I made so many mistakes?

I've been irresponsible many, many, many times and that has resulted in my being fat.

You make one mistake and you feel like the worst person in the world.

I think I beat myself up more than anyone else.

When I get out, I get annoyed with myself.

What a way to pay a man back for helping you. Gah, I suck as a human being.’ (Shahara)

Guilt: I'm sorry. I made a mistake. Shame: I'm sorry. I am a mistake.

Humans punish themselves endlessly for not being what they believe they should be. They become very self-abusive, and they use other people to abuse themselves as well.

Shame is the shadow of love.