Eating Disorder

[MajestyJo]

Thursday, January 30, 2014

You are reading from the book Food for Thought

Eat Less, Enjoy More

Before we joined OA, we were eating more and enjoying it less. The more we ate, the more fat we had to lug around, and the harder it was to do anything, much less enjoy doing it. Feeling stuffed and guilty, we often did not even enjoy what it was that we were eating.

When our bodies are not overloaded with too much food and fat, we have energy for new activities. Our minds are sharper when they are not drugged with refined carbohydrates. Our emotions are more serene and positive when we are not full of despair and self-hatred.

Freed from the terrible compulsion to eat more and more, we have time and energy to spend learning a new sport, reading a story to a child, writing a poem. Whatever we choose to do, we enjoy it more when we are not overeating.

When we abstain, we feel good about ourselves. When we feel good about ourselves, we feel good about life.

May I understand that for me, less food means more enjoyment.

Tonight I was talking to a couple of people on the elevator. A woman comment to a young guy that he was big. He said, "I am fat." I told him of my cousin who told someone on our school bus many years ago, "I am not fat, I am big boned." On his way out, "I said you know it is what you eat, try to make healthy choices." I didn't tell him that it was about what was eating him, that caused him to overeat.