We ate to sate the fears, the anxieties, the angers, the disappointments. We ate to escape the pressures of our problems or the boredom of everyday life. We procrastinated, we hid, and we ate. ~ Overeaters Anonymous. The Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions of Overeaters Anonymous, Second Edition (p. 6). Overeaters Anonymous, Inc.. Kindle Edition.

Are you hiding?
I did for years,
with the ludicrous idea
that if I ate myself into morbid obesity
I could escape!
by making myself huge?
by taking up my allotted space
and a lot more as well?
Nobody claims the ways we escape…
or did before we found the rooms of recovery
made sense or were even sprinkled with logic?
How do you attempt to escape?
How’s that working for you?
How can you truly escape?
Many of us have found release
from anxiety, anger, disappointments.
You can as well.