Not everyone needs or wants to know that I’m saving a place for God, and that’s just fine. ~ B., Misti. If You Leave Me, Can I Come with You?: Daily Meditations for Codependents and Al-Anons . . . with […]
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Eventually
The “diet” began at age thirteen with diet pills, I meandered through “chubby” clothes the 1/2 tag, slacks wearing out first at the inner thighs, chiding comments from Mother and others, called in Red Rover by the description, “Let Fat […]
Continue reading »A Long Time Ago
I had no use for me, could not imagine your liking me because surely I knew me best and if I believed I had no merit you couldn’t help but see it, too. But that was a long time ago, […]
Continue reading »To Those Who Think Most Often of Food
How many diets have you begun? Have they ever been successful, so you were content six months after the last day you dieted? Can you take one from a serving dish of your favorite food, leaving the rest? Do you […]
Continue reading »Fat Albert Remade
Hey, hey, hey. My name is Albert and I’m a compulsive overeater. I’ve been in program eighteen months, and I’ve surrendered two hundred pounds. I also lost the defacto first name of “Fat.” I’m still jolly and lead the junkyard […]
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