{"quotes":[{"text":"There ARE people who won't customarily eat an entire row of cookies, or hear food calling their name from other rooms, or who don't grind up food in the garbage disposal for fear of eating it, or get it back out of the garbage so they could eat it. Of course, my binge eating was just a cover-up for the larger issue: Trying to fill the emptiness.","author":"S.A.R.K.","tags":["binge-eating","eating-disorders","feeling-empty","humor","inspirational","psychology","self-help"],"id":5681,"author_id":"S.A.R.K."},{"text":"When we are true to ourselves, all that is toxic and burdensome simply falls away.","author":"Dina Hansen","tags":["anxiety","binge-eating","food-addiction","self-confidence","self-image","stress"],"id":153564,"author_id":"Dina+Hansen"},{"text":"As I searched for food perfection, and as I gained weight, I began to realize that the race for perfection in anything was the path to destruction.","author":"Rachael Rose Steil","tags":["anorexia","binge-eating","binge-eating-disorder","eating-disorder","eating-disorders","memoir","running","self-help"],"id":177900,"author_id":"Rachael+Rose+Steil"},{"text":"Eating disorder recovery becomes possible when you keep making the next right decision over and over. With time, these decisions become automatic.","author":"Brittany Burgunder","tags":["anorexia-recovery","believe-in-yourself","best-choice","binge-eating","binge-eating-disorder","binge-eating-recovery","bulimia-help","bulimia-recovery","choose-the-right","decisions","eating-disorder","eating-disorder-recovery","eating-disorders","ednos","healing","never-give-up","possible","recovered","recovery","recovery-inspiration","recovery","trust"],"id":312305,"author_id":"Brittany+Burgunder"},{"text":"Locking away appetite, anger, the fullness of life, anorexia helps cover up whatever struggles inside. With its controlling bouts of bingeing and starvation, of trance and half-life, it becomes a shield to fend off despair and longing and what most of use would see as ordinary responsible behavior.","author":"Carol Lee","tags":["anorexia","binge-eating","eating-disorder","mental-illness","unhealthy-coping"],"id":379690,"author_id":"Carol+Lee"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":5,"pages":1}}