Food for Thought: March 4th

Doing What Feels Good

Doing anything as long as it feels good is a trap. We like to eat for the sheer sensual pleasure of the experience, and we would like to continue long after our need for nourishment has been met. Once our appetites are out of control, we cannot stop, not even when the pleasure has turned to pain.

Unbridled, uncontrolled sensuality will destroy us. Rational knowledge of when to stop is not enough. We may know with our minds that we should not be eating, but still be unable to stop the action of our bodies. If we are unable to control our sensuality with our minds, then how is it to be done?

OA members testify that there is One who has all power, including the power to enlighten our darkness and prevent our self destruction. Through daily contact with this Higher Power, we develop spiritual strength which will control and direct our physical drives so that they do not control and destroy us.

Take my sensuality, Lord, and control it.

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

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 Why start doing something that cannot be satisfying, EVER? I eat for the sheer pleasure of the experience, which soon turns to pain & suffering.

It's like putting my hand on the stove burner, wondering if it will hurt? Yes, it WILL hurt and NO, I won't be satisfied no matter HOW much junk food I eat!

For today, I will not take that first compulsive bite, getting on a roller coaster ride that I may not be able to get off of.

For today, I put my Food Plan in God's hands.