Sunday, March 18, 2012

Food For Thought: March 18th

A New World

Being abstinent puts us into a new world. Instead of trying to cheat ourselves and get away with it, we learn to be straight with ourselves and others. Instead of escaping problems, we learn to face them honestly. Instead of despair, we feel self-respect and a developing self-confidence.

As we get rid of our obsession with food, we get in touch with our feelings and abilities so that we are able to function calmly and efficiently.

All of this does not happen overnight. We take the Twelve Steps under the guidance of a program sponsor. We work our program every day. We continue to use the telephone and go to meetings so that we may learn from other members.

Above all, we maintain contact with our Higher Power, since it is by His grace that we have entered this new world.

Thank You, Lord, for leading me to a new world. 

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In my old life, my goal was to escape my problems & issues by overeating & drinking.  In the end, the problems were still there, only they were worsened by my excessive behavior.  Plus, I felt rotten about myself FOR escaping! Which led me back to the excess.  Round & round I went, like a hamster in a wheel, running but never getting anywhere.  One day, I found myself at rock-bottom, and there was nowhere left to run.  

That's when I had to face the Truth. The 12 steps helped me do that; face the truth, put some plans into place, and see them through, no matter what.  The people and relationships I had neglected (including the bad relationship I had with myself) had to be addressed if I was to find recovery.


When I have no self-respect, I have nothing. All the money in the world can't buy it for me, and all the stuff, and all the running away......just brought me back to me.  And I was somebody I didn't like.


Nowadays, I put one foot in front of the other and face my life and my problems head-on.  There is nowhere to run that allows me to escape the Truth.

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