Sentence examples for fear gaining from inspiring English sources

I am no longer controlled by or fear food, and I no longer fear gaining weight.

What started out as healthy eating and being conscious of my diet turned into an extreme fear gaining weight and eating too much.

I see this a lot with women who have a perfectionist mindset around their body size and fear gaining even a pound or two.

(After all, 97percentt of women admit to having a disparaging thought about their body every day, and two-thirds of 13-year-old girls in the U.S. fear gaining weight).

It is a sobering reminder not to let fear gain the upper hand.

As the fear gains momentum, the vulnerable stranger morphs into a devil, crouching on their beds at night… and we know there's no hope for him now.

Such fears gained a national audience two years ago after the release of a documentary, Gasland, which showed flames bursting out of a home's water tap after fracking had been carried out in the area.

Already, food has been moralized by the fear of gaining weight: carrot sticks and low-fat yogurt are "good," cookies and chocolate are "bad".

Anorexia nervosa is characterized by low body weight, propensity for drastic undereating, intense fear of gaining weight or becoming fat (despite being underweight), and a distorted body image.

Some fear that gaining planning permission for developments would be more difficult and worry it could mean the end of the ­remaining slate quarrying.

The patient with anorexia nervosa has a distorted body image and an inordinate fear of gaining weight; consequently she reduces her nutritional intake below the amount needed to maintain a normal minimal weight.