Food for Thought: February 28th

Conserving Resources

In this fight against compulsive overeating, we need all the strength we can muster. We can learn to conserve our energy for what is important, rather than wasting it on non-essential activities.

An extra hour of sleep may do more for our program than an hour spent reading a novel or watching television. We have to guard against compulsive overactivity as well as overeating. Often, we tend to push too hard to complete something which can just as well wait until tomorrow. If we are tired, we are less able to resist temptation.

Choosing the foods, which will provide us with necessary proteins, vitamins, and minerals, is a vital part of maintaining energy. To take care of our bodies is to nurture the most valuable physical resource we have.

Conserving our resources often means saying no to people and activities, which drain them unnecessarily. Only we ourselves, with the guidance of our Higher Power, can decide how best to use the strength and energy we have.

Teach me to conserve the resources You have given me.

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

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Compulsive overeating is a disease of excess............it touches all aspects of life, not just eating. We go to extremes............we overdo EVERYTHING. Exercise, shopping, cleaning...............we are extremists. We're either compulsively busy or compulsively sitting around doing nothing.

The best thing we can do is plan............plan our food intake, plan out our day, and plan out as much as we possibly can.  Left to our own devices, we usually go to extremes and get ourselves into trouble!  If I fail to plan, I plan to fail!

For today, I will stick to my life plan and my food plan. I will not go overboard or behave compulsively, with God's help, and I will act 'as if' I am a together person! :)