So true, but not there in today, I bought another honey bun. :(

The Link to the original source at Hazelden. This link can be followed for the daily reading.

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Nothing changes if nothing changes. Again, I need to pray for the willingness to be willing to change.

From the book: Food for Thought
Jan. 5

Less Food, More Energy


When we have used excess food as a crutch for years, we think we need it to "keep up our energy." We have become especially dependent on the refined carbohydrates, sugar and flour, to give us a quick pickup when we are tired.

The truth of the matter is that the pickup, that sharp rise in blood sugar we got when we ate refined sugar and flour, was soon followed by an even sharper letdown. We ended up more tired than when we began! Excess food of any kind makes us groggy and lethargic.

When we eliminate the wrong kind of food and eat only the amount, which our bodies need for optimum functioning, we are amazed at the supply of energy we suddenly have. Jobs, which we have put off doing for years, begin to get done. We feel good. Instead of spending unnecessary time for extra eating and digesting, we have that time to use in productive, enjoyable activity.

Try it and see.

Lord, strengthen my body to serve You.

Recently posted a picture that said, "When is enough, enough." This quote says there is never enough. I know that is true for me, some is good, more always seemed better. Not a good way of thinking. Something that I had to take to my Higher Power and ask for help to change.

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From the book: Food for Thought
Jan. 14

Willing to Go to Any Lengths

To achieve success in this program, we are willing to go to any lengths. We want to stop eating compulsively more than anything else. We are willing to take the steps, which led to success for hundreds of others who have gone before us.

When we put abstinence first in our lives, then we are willing to experience periods of hunger and craving as our appetites and our bodies adjust to the new food plan. We are willing to eat according to need, not greed.

In times of stress and difficulty, we are willing to go to any lengths to stay on our program. This may involve going to extra meetings, making more phone calls, spending more time reading the literature and meditating. Whatever it takes to keep us abstinent is what we are willing to do.

Most important, we are willing to turn our lives over to the care of God, as each of us understands Him. As we let ourselves be led hour-by-hour and day-by-day, our lives fall into place, and we are given inner joy and serenity.

I pray that I may always be willing.

From the book: Food for Thought
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Be Not Anxious


If we are conscientiously working the OA program, we may leave the results to our Higher Power. To worry is to insult God. When we admit that we are powerless over food and that our lives have become unmanageable, we can then ask for and receive strength and power beyond ourselves. When we turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understand Him, we are free to live without anxiety.

At first, we are awkward. We turn over our problems and anxieties one minute and take them back the next. We forget that the Twelve Step program has worked for countless other compulsive people--alcoholics and drug addicts as well as overeaters. Doubting God's strength, we fall back on our own weakness, and the result is trouble.

Through our contacts with OA members, we can see lives changed and people made new in body, mind, and spirit. These examples are convincing testimony to the efficiency of our Higher Power. The more we trust His will for us, the more He is able to work miracles in our lives.

Take my anxieties, Lord. I pray that Thy will may be done.

This is something I don't do well. I try not to look ahead, but I do like to make healthy choices when I go grocery shopping. The problem is that when I am hungry, I don't want what I have. A little gratitude may help with this and a little prayer for some guidance from my HP wouldn't hurt.

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February 1, 2014

You are reading from the book Food for Thought

Learning

In this program, we never stop learning. It takes time to absorb the OA way of life. Some of us start with great enthusiasm, expecting perfection all at once. When we do not achieve it, we are sometimes tempted to give up and go back to the old, self-destructive way of eating the wrong kinds of food in the wrong amounts.

One of the most important things we learn in OA is patience with ourselves. We seek progress, not perfection. We work for it one step at a time, one day at a time. Our Higher Power accepts us and loves us as we are right now, today. By turning our lives over to Him and humbly asking for guidance, we become receptive to His teaching.

As we grow - slowly -we learn from our mistakes even more than from our successes. We are willing to be again as little children, and we are willing to accept suggestions and help from those who have had more experience and time in the program. We do not have to continue to make the same mistakes over and over again. We can learn the new way of life if we will walk into it patiently and slowly.

Open my body, mind, and heart to Your teaching, Lord.

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From the book: Food for Thought
February 2

Giving Thanks

I am a grateful compulsive overeater, abstaining just for today. I am thankful for my life, for the chance to grow and solve problems and love and enjoy what is beautiful. I give thanks for the insights, which have come out of struggle and despair.

I am thankful for OA. Without it, I would still be isolated in a hopeless attempt to control overeating my way, by myself. I give thanks for the serenity and joy which increase daily as I follow the OA program. I give thanks for the love and support, which come to me from fellow members.

Especially, I am thankful for abstinence. By choosing and accepting this gift, I enter a new world of freedom. No longer am I driven by compulsion. I give thanks for the work and play and love which abstinence makes possible.

Accept my thanks.

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Self honesty is one of the hardest things we are asked to do in recovery. I know I had a lot of rationalization and justification that got in the way of me being truly honest with me.

I love the slogan, "Let it begin with me." It helps to keep me honest.

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Like this. Dependent on my program. Depending on the tools of the program to see me through each day. Dependent on the God of my understanding to show me the way.

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This is different than my "It is okay to just be." We need to be ever working on ourselves and being the best me I can be in today. Today is just another day to practice my program, with the hope that I can do a better job than yesterday. We can slip without physically picking up. As it says, we can slide into old behaviors and patterns. I was a great rationalizer and justifier, but it doesn't cut it any more. I find myself out too often.

The butterfly says, "Transform your life into a better way of being."

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As my friend says, "Don't forget to take your QTIP with you. Quit Taking It Personal, remember they are acting out in their disease, or you allow them to take your power and you are acting out in your disease.

We often think of street drugs when we hear about getting clean. We don't think about cleansing our body, mind, and spirit, and that it applies to food, which can be a mind altering substance.

Old Tapes are killers, no matter where they are rooted and where they come from. They often start with family, pastors/priests, and the sages of old who are suppose to be in the know. They don't understand about addiction and they don't see it in every day things like food, work, computers, etc.

I need to erase those old tapes and make new ones. I must remember that I am the one who pushes the play button. I have freedom of choice. I do have other options, like erase, reject, stop, instead of listening to same old messages that keep me sick and stops me from healing and moving forward with my life.

I have to remember it isn't always about what I am eating, it is about what is eating me. Relationships can be killers. I can eat myself into oblivion. Some say they are binge eaters! What does binge taste like?

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