Eat Up: Food, Appetite and Eating What You Want
Remember that food would not have a taste if it weren’t for hunger; results are meaningless without effort, joy without sadness, convictions without uncertainty, and an ethical life isn’t so when stripped of personal risks.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb • Incerto 4-Book Bundle
“Now, take some time and notice what you put on your plate,” I say. “Notice if you were hungry when you chose the food. If you weren’t physically hungry, was there another kind of hunger present?
Geneen Roth • Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything
It may not feel like it, but you never lost your potential to change how you eat. The wonderful secret of being an omnivore is that we can adjust our desires, even late in the game. It won’t happen on the first bite. Long-standing appetites do not take kindly to being ignored;
Bee Wilson • First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
taken me a long time to realize that part of eating well is making friends with hunger. We are not the starving children. To feel mildly hungry two or three times a day—when you are lucky enough to know that another meal is coming soon—is a good thing. All my life—except when I’d been attempting to lose weight—I’d responded to the gentlest of tummy
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