Eating Disorder

[MajestyJo]

Saturday, January 4, 2014

You are reading from the book Food for Thought

Three Meals a Day

For most of us, abstinence from compulsive overeating means three measured meals a day with nothing in between. Before we joined OA we often ate one enormous meal, all day long. Through this program, we find the discipline to eat according to our needs rather than our self-destructive cravings.

Unless a doctor has told us differently, we do not need more than three meals a day. As we practice this pattern, we retrain our overgrown appetites and learn to function in the real world. We can eat with our families instead of secretly snacking and bingeing.

We plan our three meals for the day, write them down, and report them to our food sponsor. Then, instead of nibbling here and there and thinking about food all day, we can forget about eating except when it is time for a planned, measured meal. As we acquire disciplined eating habits, we find that other areas of our lives become more ordered and productive. Freed from the bondage of self-will and impulse, we are guided by the sure hand of our Higher Power.

I am grateful for the order and sanity OA has brought into my life.

New awareness and reality, made it hard to stay in my denial. I was eating 2 meals a day, then when I went to the diabetic clinic, I was told 5 times a day. I found that my once a day eating with a small brunch put on weight. I had to make my portions smaller and have healthy snacks.

I had to stick close to the program and my God or I would have been grazing all day long. Some is good, more is not always better.