For Today: November 11th

Mingle your joys sometimes with your current occupations.
Linnaeus

We OAs can be very somber indeed.  To be sure, compulsive overeating is a serious business, but so is alcoholism---and there is a great deal of joy and laughter at AA meetings.  AAs love a good joke, especially when it on themselves.

Oh, it is entirely true that fat is no laughing matter, and God knows we've been ridiculed enough.  Still---it's good to laugh, to blow away that "heavy does it" attitude when it descends on me like a thundercloud.  

For Today:  Joy and lightheartedness are never out of place.

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I choose to laugh these days because, God knows, I've cried enough over the years, thanks to my disease of compulsive overeating.

I look back at my life and I can tell you how much I weighed and what size I wore at any given time.  I charted my success as a human being by a number on a scale and a number on the inside of a dress tag.  Wasting all that valuable time and energy, obsessing about my size and what to eat or not eat.

I am a compulsive dieter.  And truly, there is nothing funny about THAT.

Embracing abstinence has relieved me of my obsession with ME.  Once I stepped out of my own way and allowed God to take over my life, I was finally able to laugh at MYSELF.  Giving up the 'heavy does it' attitude has enabled me to lighten up and to laugh.  Every moment of every day does not have to be spent contemplating my weight, my food intake, or any diet related matter.

Today, I can laugh at myself without hesitation.  In spite of all the suffering, I allow myself to experience JOY in the JOurneY of life.

For today, I will laugh, I will dance, I will experience the freedom of not eating whatever I want.  For today, I will stick to my food plan and enjoy LIFE, one moment at a time.