Eating Disorders - OA April 2014

[MajestyJo]

Saturday, April 26, 2014

You are reading from the book Food for Thought

Overcoming Sloth

Another of the seven deadly sins, which we do not talk much about anymore, is sloth. Webster defines it as laziness or indolence. It is our experience that the more we eat, the lazier we become. We procrastinate, we do not feel like undertaking anything difficult, and we avoid movement as much as possible.

Abstinence puts our bodies into high gear. With proper nourishment and without an excess amount of food to digest, we feel alert and alive. We find ourselves requiring less sleep and fewer naps. Lifetime habits of laziness do not change immediately, but if we are willing to become more energetic, our Higher Power will provide the motivation.

Sometimes the thought of a large task looming ahead of us is overwhelming, and we feel that we will never be able to manage it. Here is where the willingness to take one step at a time can make the difference. If we will begin, God will keep us going when the task is part of His plan.

Deliver us from slothfulness.

Heard someone say that procrastination was included in slothfulness. I forgot it until just now as I started to post. I was horrified, I was a great procrastinator. My motto was, why worry, it isn't going any where, it will still be there when I feel like doing it. Often put off until I had no other choice and I continued to run away from home so I didn't have to confront it. Because I would run away from home, no self care and no housework. As a result, I got addicted to service. I didn't have the right attitude or motive toward it, and my recovery got slothful.

I would have this don't care attitude, which spread into my eating habits and because of the guilt, I would stuff.