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deeek · 07-04-2014, 08:20 PM

Very thought provoking questions and ones I need to answer myself. I qualify for 3 fellowships and am seriously considering going to OA. Lately my addiction has manifested itself in Food. I won't eat all day but the moment I put something in my mouth I am binging for 30 min. From a healthy meal to cookies, ice cream , popcorn. It's bad. I am quite over weight. Seems I just switched addictions. I am not bullimic.

I have listened in on a few OA meetings over the phone and honestly I am completely overwhelmed by their strict food plan. I can't even imagine cutting out sugar. But then again I thought that about alcohol too at one time and now I never think about it anymore. I guess like alcoholism and addiction to drugs it will only happen when I am truly ready and in enough pain. I am pretty close to that bottom, just feeling deprived if the truth be known.

I am going to go feed on the word. There's a verse in Matthew 4:1-11 when Satan is tempting Jesus in the Desert .

Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. And after fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. And the tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread.” But he answered, “It is written,

“‘Man shall not live by bread alone,
but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”

07-04-2014, 08:20 PM	#2
deeek Member Join Date: Jun 2014 Location: Tampa Florida Area USA Posts: 42	Very thought provoking questions and ones I need to answer myself. I qualify for 3 fellowships and am seriously considering going to OA. Lately my addiction has manifested itself in Food. I won't eat all day but the moment I put something in my mouth I am binging for 30 min. From a healthy meal to cookies, ice cream , popcorn. It's bad. I am quite over weight. Seems I just switched addictions. I am not bullimic. I have listened in on a few OA meetings over the phone and honestly I am completely overwhelmed by their strict food plan. I can't even imagine cutting out sugar. But then again I thought that about alcohol too at one time and now I never think about it anymore. I guess like alcoholism and addiction to drugs it will only happen when I am truly ready and in enough pain. I am pretty close to that bottom, just feeling deprived if the truth be known. I am going to go feed on the word. There's a verse in Matthew 4:1-11 when Satan is tempting Jesus in the Desert . Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. And after fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. And the tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread.” But he answered, “It is written, “‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”