Eating Disorders - OA JULY 2014
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The void within, needs to be filled with spiritual food. |
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The hunger isn't always physical. I found that when I share food with others, if I have enough for one, I have enough for two, I am filling up with spiritual things. |
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My disease is an allergy (I don`t react to food like others do) and obsession of my mind. Even when I am not eating or using food, I am think of it, and it becomes my whole world. It is about getting, and getting more what ever is on my mind. For me it is chocolate brownies, and I had to turn them over to my Higher Power to have the obsession taken from me. |
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The same things is that things may appear all negative, but I think if I look, I will find some goodness there. Maybe because that use to be me. I also find that a lot of the recovery stories are all cheer and no reality. It took me three years to realize that life and reality sucked! It is about how I choose to live my life, facing all things as they are, not just as I would have them be. My eating habits are not good. My God and I are working on them, some days are better than others. When I work with my meditation cards, they have a negative and positive side. A friend who introduced me to them said, "If you get a card upside down you need to look at the negative side." Later I told her that I leave all my cards upright, and it is up to me to look at the positive and negative and take ownership, for what is in reality. Most days it is positive, but on other days, I really need to read the negative and what I need to do to change. Try to keep my mind positive. I really have a problem with someone who says they prepared for the worst case scenario, and when it didn't happened he was happy and grateful. This is hot positive, what I put out I attract. There is a really good chance all that negativity will heap itself onto me and I will have to deal with it. I am not my disease, but I can still act out in it today, I have a choice. I am grateful that the person that was is no more. What is good for someone, may not be good for someone else. It is all energy, that can be exchanged, released, accepted, and it passes, and can be different an hour from now, a day from now, or even a year. That is why it is a one day at a time program. Sorry for the long post, something I feel very strongly about. |
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I do know what I should do, it is up to me as to whether I do it or not. |
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So much of our pain is triggered by tension. Tension is a big trigger for Fibromyalgia, that is one of the many reason I have to work this program daily and on all aspects of my disease. So many years I stuffed my feelings. |
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I must never forget, my recover is about today. It isn't about what I did in the past or plan for tomorrow, it is about today. |
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My goals is to wake up each morning and ask my God for His Care for today and give thanks at night. |
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A part of that growth was changing the old patterns and behaviours that affected me in today and break the habits, a lot of which were a result of my addiction. It was that hunger and void within me that I wanted to fill and it could only be filled with spiritual things to make the pain go away. |
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When you turn your day over to the care of the God of your understanding, the good orderly direction is there. Don`t discount it. Contempt prior to investigation, leaves us blocked and we limit our God as to how He can work in our life. |
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When food takes over my thought patterns, I am in my disease. It is about me getting honest with me. |
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If I take an easy wrong, the consequences have hard results and makes right even harder. |
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http://www.darachweb.net/SongLyrics/LochLomond.html |
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Don't jump to conclusions, just because you did the first 3 Steps or all 12 of the Steps, doesn't mean you are finished. It is a living program. The 12 Steps are applicable to all areas of my life, those I know and those I haven't discovered yet. |
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A friend of mine says that she goes to take some pills, she thinks of me, and takes them anyway. The same thing when I go to eat brownies, should I or shouldn't I, yesterday and the day before I walked by them. Last night I made some. :( |
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This was especially true for me, I had so many depths of feeling so deeply buried it took time to surface. I was also told it was okay to work the steps and take off the top layer as long as you go back and do them again. As I healed, I became more aware and I became more honest. This is a disease of perception. |
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When I came into Treatment, I was told that thoughts of suicide was being cowardly. I chose to live! |
Friday, July 25, 2014
You are reading from the book Food for Thought Gifts The OA program is a gift to us from our Higher Power. Without it, we would still be bogged down in compulsive overeating with no solution in sight. Our fellowship gives us the hope and love we need to sort ourselves out and begin to live a new life. Recovery through abstinence is the gift, which we are offered every day. In order to receive it, we need to be sincere and earnest in our efforts to work the program. We can count on God's support if we are willing to go to any lengths to stop eating compulsively. With gratitude for these gifts from our Higher Power, we are able to give back what has come to us. We share our program and give our time and abilities where we see a need that we can fill. The more we give, the more we receive. God's abundance is inexhaustible. We thank You for Your gifts. |
Saturday, July 26, 2014
You are reading from the book Food for Thought Doing God's Will For a long time, most of us tried to achieve happiness by serving our self-will. We figured out what we wanted from life and then went about trying to attain it. When our efforts were frustrated, we turned to food and overeating. The idea of giving our self-will to God and following His direction makes us fearful. We fear that we will lose out and be unhappy. We are reluctant to give up our illusions of autonomy and power. We wonder if there really is a Higher Power who can direct our way. We pray for guidance and then forget to listen for the response. When we are willing to trust a Higher Power in even one small area of our lives, we begin to see results. As our faith grows, we become confident enough to relinquish more and more of the concerns, which by ourselves we are unable to manage. The more we work this program, the more sure we are that our peace and happiness lie in serving God, rather than ourselves. I pray for courage to follow Your will. |
Sunday, July 27, 2014
You are reading from the book Food for Thought OA Unity When we come into OA, we are amazed to find so many other people with the same problems and difficulties. We are even more amazed at the stories we hear of the successful solution of these problems, which have defeated us for so long. We are united in our common illness - compulsive overeating - and we are united in our common program of recovery - abstinence and the Twelve Steps. What we could not accomplish alone, by our own efforts, becomes possible through the strength of the group and the Higher Power. Each of us is responsible for the life of OA. We each have a role to play and an area in which to serve. If we do not do our part, the organization as a whole is weakened. By our service to the common goals, our own program is strengthened. "Letting someone else do it" will not work. Saying yes when there is a job that I can do is what maintains OA unity and my own recovery. May I contribute to OA unity. |
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A women in a Fibromyalgia study with me, invited me to her place to taste her home made wine. She was quite offended. She said, "A little glass of wine won't hurt you." I was about 8 months sober. Her little glass of wine could have put me back on the vicious cycle of more, with alcohol, pills and food. They all went together hand in hand. |
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