Eating Disorders - OA for May 2014

[MajestyJo]

Thursday, May 29, 2014

You are reading from the book Food for Thought

Quality, Not Quantity

We tend to be overly impressed with quantity. How much does it cost? How many friends do I have? How much can I include in my food plan? In a materialistic society, more is synonymous with better.

Before we found OA, we were eating more and enjoying it less. In fact, the more we ate, the more unhappy we became. Greater quantity did not bring better health or a better quality of life.

In this program, we are learning to place quality before quantity. We discover that smaller amounts of nourishing, high quality foods are more satisfying and make us feel better than vast quantities of empty calories. We become more selective about the way we spend our time, choosing the activities and companions that most enrich our lives, rather than trying to do everything and be everything to everybody. We realize more each day that the quality of our spiritual life is what gives us the inner satisfaction, which we sought but failed to find in quantities of things.

Show me how to live well.

One of the biggest lessons that I learned in recovery. Making healthy choices. Qaulity not quantity, allowed me to establish healthier eating habits.

I also found the same thing in the fellowships of recovery. Someone with 3 years could have quality sobriety, as someone who had 30 years. The program works if you work it. It is a one day at a program. The past and what you did, whether in recovery or before recovery, it is about choices in today.

[MajestyJo]

Friday, May 30, 2014

You are reading from the book Food for Thought

Be Good to Yourself


Stuffing ourselves with food which our bodies did not need was not being good to ourselves, nor did it solve our problems. Overeating simply added another problem to the ones we already had.

In the past, when we thought about diets, we may have considered them to be the punishment, which we had to undergo in order to get rid of the fat we had acquired. Taking that attitude was not being good to ourselves, either. It is one reason why diets invariably fail, since few of us are willing to endure punishment indefinitely.

The OA program is not a diet but a way of life. It is a way, which has worked because it is a positive plan, not a negative restriction. We determine what it is that our bodies need to look and function at their best, and we decide to eat that and nothing else. We are good to our bodies. We also consider what our minds, hearts, and spirits need to function at their best, and we decide that the love and care of a Higher Power is crucial. By working the Twelve Steps, we are good to ourselves.

Thank You for the life that You have given me to live.

Do for yourself what you would do for others. Just don't spoil yourself rotten, it could become an addiction.

[MajestyJo]

Saturday, May 31, 2014

You are reading from the book Food for Thought

Friends Are For Helping

Now that we have found our place in a fellowship of sympathetic friends, we no longer need to be lonely. We have friends who understand us, even though we may only know their first names. Since we are all compulsive overeaters, we share similar experiences and feelings.

Reaching out to others in the program helps us to better understand and accept ourselves. The new life OA gives us needs to be shared in order to be kept. Calling newcomers, sharing transportation, keeping in touch with someone who is having trouble - these contacts strengthen our defenses against old habits and prevent us from slipping back into lo neliness. The friends we make through OA are related to us by a deep spiritual bond.

When we are in trouble, we should not be too proud to ask for help. We cannot control this disease by ourselves. Our phone call to another member in time of difficulty is not an imposition but another link in the chain of mutual support.

May I be a giver and receiver of help and friendship.

My friend called the other night and I wasn't able to talk to her, because I was in too much pain and had to go to my bed. Later when I woke to post, I got the message "rose quartz" as to what she needed. She phoned while I was out and called her, didn't have time to talk long because I had to get ready to go to the sleep disorder clinic. Told her I loved her and told her to look up Rose Quartz on her computer. She had a rose quartz bracelet, so she can meditate with that.

They are still having court appearance of her son's murder.

http://www.healing-crystals-for-you....z-crystal.html