Food for Thought: January 14th

Willing to Go to Any Lengths

To achieve success in this program, we are willing to go to any lengths. We want to stop eating compulsively more than anything else. We are willing to take the steps, which led to success for hundreds of others who have gone before us.

When we put abstinence first in our lives, then we are willing to experience periods of hunger and craving as our appetites and our bodies adjust to the new food plan. We are willing to eat according to need, not greed.

In times of stress and difficulty, we are willing to go to any lengths to stay on our program. This may involve going to extra meetings, making more phone calls, spending more time reading the literature and meditating. Whatever it takes to keep us abstinent is what we are willing to do.

Most important, we are willing to turn our lives over to the care of God, as each of us understands Him. As we let ourselves be led hour-by-hour and day-by-day, our lives fall into place, and we are given inner joy and serenity.

I pray that I may always be willing.


From Food for Thought: Daily Meditations for Overeaters by Elisabeth L. ©1980, 1992 by Hazelden Foundation.

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Going to any lengths........for me, means that I must keep the house clear of any & all trigger foods. I cannot keep junk in the house and NOT eat it.  I will wake up at 2 am to do so............such is the nature of my disease and I KNOW that.............so I keep my house an abstinence-friendly zone. 

At work and out of the house, I ignore off plan foods & pretend they don't exist. I will not check to see what's new in the vending machines, or what's in the big box on the lunchroom table...........because I don't need to know. I have my meals planned out, and I eat them at certain times during the day, and that's ALL I need to focus on.

When I put abstinence first in my life is when I am willing to eat according to need, not greed.  If I veer off course, then there won't be enough food on earth to 'satisfy' me because I'm not eating from hunger but from greed............and to fill an emotional void...........which cannot BE filled with food (or any other addictive substance)

For today, I pray for the willingness to keep my program my #1 priority.