I know I’m a compulsive overeater, that diets don’t work…for me. They work fine as a plan of eating but the diet idea, the willpower, the weigh-in-front-of-people-for-maximum-humiliation, the attagirls, the rewards you can add back in that for me start […]
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I Do Believe It
…I had to get into the risky world of the unknown, the spiritual realm, where there are no guarantees. Scary? You’d better believe it. Rewarding? I do believe it. ~ Voices of Recovery (Kindle Locations 2785-2786) I’m the kind who would […]
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If you can make good picks at all-you-can eat buffets and stop when you have had enough, If you can see your eyes with thoughts that treat with love and not lambast with words too tough, If thoughts of body […]
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The false self is like any other living thing, it does’t want to die. ~ Miranda All life hangs in there. The mosquito cannot know you’re trying to squish her but dips and dives and avoids most swishes. The animals […]
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I identify as a compulsive overeater, recovering, and a sugar addict. I didn’t create the language, but it’s mine. Compulsive is an adjective describing an irresistible urge, especially against a person’s conscious wishes. Addicted is an adjective as well. So […]
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