Women Food and God by Geneen Roth

Being the loyal Oprah devotee that I am I take her book references seriously. She recently said that Women Food and God has been very important in her recent weight loss attempts. So I headed over to the neighborhood Borders and invested in this new book. I've read a lot of it already and feel like it is a good investment and helps me think about eating in a new way.

Below are some of my favorite and thought provoking quotes.

"You always have something to do. As long as you are striving and pushing and trying hard to do something that can never be done, you know who you are: someone with a weight problem who is working hard to be thin."

"Weight is what happens when you use food to flatten your life."

"They realize that brokenness is learned, not innate, and that their work is to find their way back to what is already whole."

"The shape of your body obeys the shape of your beliefs about love, value and possibility. To change your body, you must first understand that which is shaping it."

"To be given wings, you've got to be willing to believe that you were put on this earth for more than your endless attempts to lose the same thirty pounds three hundred times for eighty years. And that goodness and loveliness are possible, even in something as mundane as what you put in your mouth for breakfast."

"When you love something you wish it goodness; when you hate something, you wish to annihilate it. Change happens not by hatred but by love."