At the bitter end, food is the companion, the obsession, the all in all. Don’t look at me! Don’t see the fat, the pimples, the disarray, the too-small clothes. Just leave me alone with my binge. Wait! It may […]
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You’re Welcome
God sends no one away empty except those who are full of themselves. ~ Dwight L. Moody You Pharisees and teachers of the Law of Moses are in for trouble! You’re nothing but show-offs. You lock people out of the […]
Continue reading »Nothing Normal About It
Wake up, get on the scales before breakfast, naked. Eat the breakfast you serve the family. Garb a cappuccino and apple fritter on your way to work, dump trash at recycling center a couple blocks from work. Run in and […]
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People with low self-esteem fear love…. They doubt another person’s ability to appreciate them, because they don’t see the worth in themselves. ~ Kylie Scott, Deep Fear of love. I want to shout. “Not me,love is good, nothing to fear!” […]
Continue reading »The First Addiction
After twenty-four years in the program, I began to see that self-hatred was my first addiction. ~ Overeaters Anonymous, Third Edition (Kindle Locations 869-870). Some of us were chubby toddlers, never healthy body weights, some ideal weight into our twenties then […]
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