Quotes About Self-care

Make food choices that honor your health and taste buds while making you feel good. Remember that you don't have to eat a perfect diet to be healthy. You will not suddenly get a nutrient deficiency, or gain weight from one snack, one meal, or one day of eating. It's what you eat consistently over time that matters. Progress, not perfection, is what counts.

When underfed—whether from a self-imposed diet or starvation—you will obsess about food.

honor your hunger, respect your fullness, cope with feelings with kindness, reject the diet mentality).

Self-care is defined as the daily process of attending to your basic physical and emotional needs, which include the shaping of your daily routine, relationships, and environment, as needed to promote self-care (Cook-Cottone 2015).

Ironically a "good" or "bad" scale number can both trigger overeating—whether it's a congratulatory eating party or a consolation party.

The perpetual pursuit of food plans and trying to change your body size rob you of truly getting to know yourself and your emotions. Dieting can serve as a coping mechanism, as can over-exercising—which ultimately disconnects you from your feelings.

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the many experiences you will encounter. If, however, you focus on the end result (which for many people is weight or the amount of pounds lost), it can make you feel overwhelmed and discouraged, and end up sabotaging the process.

Weighing in on the scale only serves to keep you focused on your weight; it doesn't help with the process of getting back in touch with Intuitive Eating.

Do not make your mind a dumping ground for other people's garbage.

They go in a vase. On the nighstand by your bed. Or on the kitchen table. Or on the coffee table in the living room. They go where you can see them most often, and, seeing them, remember that you deserve flowers.

I've as good a right to preserve the healthy body God gave me, as if I were not a woman.

Stop what you are doing. Go outside and breathe. The world will not end if you take ten minutes for yourself.

It's cool to express myself, but I've had to learn that doing interviews isn't completely therapy - spilling everything about yourself isn't healthy all the time. But I've been through things that have made me a stronger person, and if I can help some people, I will.

Trop se pencher sur eux, c'est la meilleure position pour recevoir un coup de pied au derrière. (p. 26)

No quiero apestar a orina de anciano. No quiero que me falte el aliento después de subir con dificultad media docena de escalones. No quiero que nadie me tenga que cortar las uñas de los pies porque no las

Our BODIES—their health, their availability—are an unavoidable domain of concern for us as human beings.

Taking your own reflection as a lover is, moreover, another piece of prudent economy—for after all it costs nothing.

important thing is to show up for herself—over and over again—and keep on going.

Vroeg naar bed gaan - dat vonden de immer onuitgeslapen pioniers van de moderne kunst het moedigst denkbare gevecht tegen depressie, drank, zinloze verstrooiing en de voortstormdende tijd.

I haven't took no punishment. There's nothing cool about taking punishment.

I have been dairy free for several years, and I started because I felt it was going to reduce my allergies, which it did, and help me lose weight, which it did.

When it comes to beauty whatever makes you look good and feel good is right.

The minute anyone's getting anxious I say, You must eat and you must sleep. They're the two vital elements for a healthy life.