"Be patient, because real change takes time. I used to Google things like 'How to lose weight in a week,' but the world just doesn't work that way. If you want to lose weight, you've got to work for it. If you want to get stronger, you've got to work for it. Any other way isn't going to be healthy, and it's not going to last."
"I don't think there's going to be a day when I don't think about food or my body, but I'm living with it, and I wish I could tell young girls to find their safe place and stay with it."
"It's going to be okay. No matter how hard your rock bottom is, you can rise above it and you can come back."
"I know my past will always be a part of me, but I don't want it to define me. . . . I'm excited to live in the present and looking forward to the future."
"Stay strong, be brave, love hard and true, and you will have nothing to lose."
"I think it's important that I sit here on this stage and tell you at home or you in the audience or you right here that if you do go through this, you, yourself, can get through it. You can get to the other side. It may be bumpy, but you are a 10 out of 10. Don't forget it."