I don't know if those things work, where you do, like, this crash

In the simple yet deeply thoughtful words of Amanda Peet, we find a wisdom that transcends the fleeting world of diets and beauty: “I don’t know if those things work, where you do, like, this crash diet or crash starvation. It’s just not something I’ve ever been into.” To the casual ear, it is a statement about food and health. But beneath its plainness lies a timeless truth — a lesson about balance, patience, and self-respect. It is a rejection of the illusion of quick fixes and an embrace of what the ancients would have called moderation, the sacred harmony that sustains both body and soul. For Peet speaks not only of nourishment but of life itself — that anything built on haste and desperation cannot endure.

The origin of this quote comes from Peet’s reflections on the pressures of fame and physical perfection, where the demand to conform often leads people toward extremes — starvation disguised as discipline, punishment mistaken for self-control. In the world she inhabits, where appearances are worshipped like idols, she dares to stand apart and affirm the virtue of steadiness. Her words are an act of quiet rebellion against the false promise of crash diets — those violent fluctuations of will and desire that harm more than they heal. What she rejects is not only a method of eating but a mindset: the belief that transformation can be achieved through force rather than consistency, through denial rather than understanding.

The ancients knew this truth well. **Aristotle