Sublime

Alcoholism is a disease of relapse and I understand that no single force—not meetings, not willpower, not prayer or guidance or simple wanting—can guarantee that I won’t slide back

Sloane always did the perfect amount of every drug. Sometimes the perfect amount meant overdoing it, and so that was what she’d do.

Eat in the 100-150 gram Maintenance Zone and you won’t gain fat (unless you have an extremely severe overeating problem…but even then it will be hard!). Eat in the 50-100 gram Sweet Spot and you will lose body fat, no matter who you are and how hard it’s been to drop weight in the past. Really, it’s all about the Carbohydrate Curve!

When you drink in order to transform yourself, when you drink and become someone you’re not, when you do this over and over and over, your relationship to the world becomes muddied and unclear.

promove um relacionamento patológico com a comida e o movimento (que, por meio da cultura da dieta, transforma-se em dieta e exercício),

During my drinking decades, I lived like a pig. My room was a hazardous pile of stilettos, tube tops, wine bottles, ashtrays, and old magazines. I valued nothing. Everything that came into my life was disposable: clothes, opportunities, people. My bedroom looked as if my insides had spilled out onto the floor.