FOOD FOR THOUGHT - OA OCTOBER

[MajestyJo]

Saturday, October 11, 2014

You are reading from the book Food for Thought

Feeling Deprived

If I allow myself to feel deprived, sooner or later I will overeat or react with negative emotions. I am a human being, a child of God with the same rights as all of His other children. I have needs and preferences, which, if denied and repressed, will surface in a destructive way.

If those around me are eating a special meal and I eat leftovers, which I do not particularly like, I will feel deprived. I may become bad tempered and I may overeat later to compensate. I do not need to have what others are eating, if it is not on my food plan, but my meal should be pleasing to me. I do not need to have and do what everyone else has and does, but I can recognize my desires and preferences and satisfy them when doing so does not injure anyone else.

By overeating, I deprived myself of good health, peace of mind, self-respect, and an attractive appearance. By abstaining, I am making amends to myself for the deprivation. By working the program, I am learning how to satisfy my legitimate needs.

I trust You to supply my needs.

Just love that feeling deprived feeling, sure to take you to that next morsel every time. Doesn't matter whether it is wet, dry, powdered, and for me, I use to say, the flesh and blood variety, because I would look to a man and his attention to make me feel better, along with some chocolate. If he caused the deprived feeling, then it was more chocolate or some wine to go with it. I am so hard done by don't you know. Look at what HE DID TO ME! Nothing about me putting myself in the position to be deprived, looking for him to fix me, when it was my job in the first place.