Eating Disorder

[MajestyJo]

Wednesday, January 29, 2014
You are reading from the book Food for Thought
Love Has No Calories

Moving through the Twelve Steps develops new ability to love. When pride and guilt are reduced, we can relate more genuinely to those we care about. OA gives us tools, which we may use to escape the prison of self.

Our false defenses begin to crumble. As we learn to accept and love ourselves by the grace of God, we can reach out to others and give to them. Overeating destroys us; loving makes us strong. Growing in the program, we love more and give more. In return, we are given new joy and satisfaction.

Loving more may begin with the simple act of writing down the phone number of a fellow OA member and calling sometime during the week. It may mean taking five minutes to fully concentrate on what a child or a friend is trying to say. Food is no substitute for interpersonal relationships. We need to nurture the ones we have and build new ones as we become less dependent on eating and more committed to loving.

Teach me Your love, dear God.

One of the reasons I used was because I didn`t feel lovable. I was so isolated in my disease that I could not find it within myself and used food and other substances to stuff the feelings. I wanted comfort food to make it all better. I thought it was a way of showing myself love. What was a comfort, became a necessity.