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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We Can’t Quit
Like compulsive overeaters, normal eaters will sometimes find pleasure and escape from life’s problems in excess food. Compulsive overeaters, however, often have an abnormal reaction when we overindulge. We can’t quit. A normal eater gets full and loses interest in food. […]
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 […]
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 […]
Continue reading »Rationalization
I’ve been benefited from a dictionary definition I found that reads: “Rationalization is giving a socially acceptable reason for socially unacceptable behavior, and socially unacceptable behavior is a form of insanity.” ~ Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition (Kindle Locations 6428-6429). Good […]
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