I no longer have to try to be “good.” God does it for me. ~ Voices of Recovery (Kindle Location 2000). How often I tend to report to my sponsor, “I was good” or “I behaved”? That’s a diet mentality, […]
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Compulsive
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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Food is not my problem. Food is my solution! ~ Brenda Q For years food was my problem. If I could just stay on the latest, the greatest, the sure-thing diet until I was skinny, the world would welcome me, […]
Continue reading »We Know the Rules
We are compulsive eaters. We have been for a while and so we’ve learned the diets, the tricks, the quick fixes, the mind games, the wardrobe gimmicks. We’ve joined programs, paid great sums, clipped plans from magazines, tried them, succeeded […]
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These are the products of my self-centered fear: negativity, anxiety, living in a future not yet formed with an ungrateful heart. I see only what my disease has taken from me — everything that I “deserved.” ~ Voices of Recovery […]
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