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Quotes for eating well, without the guilt
Ten o'clock, the kitchen light is on, and you aren't hungry. You've had a long day and the cupboard is the nearest thing that's easy. Or it was a birthday dinner, and by the drive home one meal has become a verdict on the whole week.
People who have made some peace with this talk about small things. One evening stays one evening. A cup of tea or brushing their teeth closes the kitchen for the night. A planned treat causes less trouble than a banned food, and the thing they can't stop thinking about stays at the shop.
You'll find kind, level lines here with food rules and numbers left out. Quill isn't a nutrition tool, so for advice on what to eat, a doctor or dietitian who knows you is the person to ask.
The moments
- In the kitchen at 10pm, not hungry, still looking
- One heavy meal, and the thought that the week is gone
- A relative pushing seconds across the table
- Ordering in a restaurant and feeling watched
- The pull towards something sweet after a hard day at work
- Sunday's packed lunches looking less appealing by Wednesday
What people say helps
- Treating one bad evening as one evening
- A small ritual that closes the kitchen, like tea or brushing their teeth
- Planning a treat, which people say quiets the wanting more than a ban does
- Leaving the thing they keep thinking about at the shop
“You've got no willpower” and “earn it” turn dinner into a test you can fail, which is why so many people have stopped listening to them.
Quill Originals are written by Quill. Popular sayings are widely repeated lines with no name attached. Lines with a name are checked word for word against public-domain books.
Quill Originals
Your plate is your business.
Takeaway last night, leftovers today. Life is allowed to look like that.
You light up around good food. Nice to see.
You're nice to spend an afternoon with.
Stress eating is a rude name for a fairly human thing.
You can care about your health and want the cake.
Remember how much effort this took at the start? Look at it now.
You wanted this on a better day. You can want it on this one too.
Somebody's glad to be at that table with you.
Wanting something sweet is a very normal thing to want.
You came for the people as well as the pasta.
You're allowed to be a work in progress at the table.
You're relearning what hungry and full feel like. No rush.
Celebrate the tiny thing. It counts.
You fed yourself today. That's a real thing to have done.
You picked well.
What you ate today is one small fact about today.
Having cooked is the part you'll like. It usually is.
Seconds are allowed. So is leaving some.
Your table doesn't have to be tidy to be nice.
Cake at a birthday is the system working.
A desk lunch is still lunch.
Popular sayings
Your future self will thank you.
Results take time.
Progress, not perfection.
From the books
Remember that in life you ought to behave as at a banquet.
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Remember that in life you ought to behave as at a banquet. Suppose that something is carried round and is opposite to you. Stretch out your hand and take a portion with decency. Suppose that it passes by you. Do not detain it. Suppose that it is not yet come to you. Do not send your desire forward to it, but wait till it is opposite …
Oftentimes in denying yourself pleasure you do but store the desire in the recesses of your being.
One loves ultimately one's desires, not the thing desired.
Insatiable appetites are not so much a thirst as a disease.
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… and scarlet, it is none of Fortune’s fault that we are poor, but our own. Nay, suppose a man should have all restored him back again that he has lost, it will come to nothing, for he will want more after that to satisfy his desires than he did before to supply his necessities. Insatiable appetites are not so much a thirst as a disease.
Every faculty which is a receiver of pleasure has an equal penalty put on its abuse.
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The same dualism underlies the nature and condition of man. Every excess causes a defect; every defect an excess. Every sweet hath its sour; every evil its good. Every faculty which is a receiver of pleasure has an equal penalty put on its abuse. It is to answer for its moderation with its life. For every grain of wit there is a grain of folly. For every thing you have missed, you have gained something else; and for every thing you gain, you lose something. If riches increase, they are increased that use them. If the …
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