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 Power of Choice
Working my program has also given me the power of choice with regard to food. ~ Abstinence, Second Edition (Kindle Locations 2405-2406). I am powerless over food and my life has become unmanageable. That’s true! Always has been, for me, […]
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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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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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Because you are stronger now, after all the crap has happened, than you ever were back before it started. ~ Alysha Speer What’s the difference between agonizing about insults, dwelling on slights, having a pity-party for the mess you’ve been […]
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