Food for Thought: March 8th

"Normal" Eating

The idea that we will one day be able to eat spontaneously, like normal people, is a delusion. We compulsive overeaters tend to think that once we lose our excess pounds, we can go back to "normal" eating. Not so.

It is our experience that once a compulsive overeater, always a compulsive overeater. There is no way we will ever be able to eat spontaneously without eventually getting into trouble. When we reach our desired weight, we continue to eat three measured meals a day with nothing in between, and we continue to avoid entirely our personal binge foods.

When we accept our permanent need to abstain, when we accept the fact that we can never return to what we thought was normal eating, then we can stop making irrational attempts at experimentation which always fail. By accepting our disease and learning to live with it, we become sane and free. We see that our new eating plan is really very normal. It was the old compulsive overeating habit which was abnormal in the extreme.

Thank you, Lord, for sanity.


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AMEN AMEN & AMEN!!!!!!!!!!!


The truth is, 'normal' people in our society overeat. They order fast food from drive-throughs, they snack all day long, they eat gigantic portions in restaurants, and they are obese as a result.

I have changed my definition of 'normal' to mean 6 small, healthy meals a day at 8, 11, 2, 5, 7 and 10 pm.  I eat nothing in between, and I work my plan one day at a time. This is MY version of normal, and it keeps me thin & healthy.

For today, I will NOT fall into society's trap of what constitutes 'normal' eating. It's taken me 55 years to see that I AM NOT a 'normal' eater and will never BE a 'normal' eater.  Thank God for showing me the truth, so I can avoid more experimentation.....................