Eating Disorder

[MajestyJo]

Wednesday, January 8, 2014

You are reading from the book Food for Though

The Bottom Line

For everything worthwhile in life, there is a price to pay. The price is the bottom line. There is no free lunch. While we have learned that we cannot overcome compulsive eating without the support of our Higher Power and the OA group, we also know that OA is not a free ride to ideal weight maintenance. Each of us must look at the bottom line.

The price of freedom from compulsive overeating is the avoidance of all personal binge foods. It is the discipline of measured meals every day. We cannot have a new life of freedom from compulsion if we continue to cling to our old excesses. We cannot be free and overeat at the same time. We must be willing to pay the price.

As we move along each day in abstinence, we form new habits and we become accustomed to living without extra, unnecessary food. We begin to change in positive, constructive ways. One day at a time, in small installments, we pay the price of our new growth and progress. What we gain is infinitely more than worth the cost!

May I be willing to pay the price today.

The bottom line is I can't use safely. There are some things that are a trigger for me. As I shared with a friend tonight, food is an inanimate object until such a time as I choose to pick it up and partake of it. Even though it wasn't good for me, I ate a big brownie with icing and whipped cream. I chose to eat it any way. I can justify the whipping cream as dairy, the chocolate was dark and not harmful to my diabetes, when I honestly look at the sugar, it affects my blood sugar, the neuropathy in my feet, and my all round well being; no matter way I look at it, it was not a healthy choice.

Am I willing to pay the price? Do I have the willingness to change? Am I willing to pray for the willingness to be willing? Just for today I am, yesterday I wasn't, I had chocolate pudding and a chocolate bar. I didn't test my blood sugar, because if it was low, I did need something, but not the whole thing. Like everything else, more is good but not better.