Food for Thought: June 8th

Trick or Treat

Our devious minds have a way of enticing us with visions of sugar plum "goodies" which can trick us into forgetting that we are compulsive overeaters. What may once have been a treat is now, for us, poison. The so-called treat can trick us into taking the first compulsive bite, which we know is always our downfall.

We need to change our thinking so that we no longer consider refined sugars and starches and former binge foods to be treats. Eating them has caused us great unhappiness in the past, and we will not be deluded into thinking that another time will be different.

Through the OA program, we are gaining the self-knowledge which arms us against the assaults of temptation. Our enemy is clever. We need the protection of our Higher Power and the strength that comes from working the Twelve Steps.

Protect me, Lord.

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

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 Thought for the Day

Once an alcoholic, always an alcoholic. We always get worse, never better. We are never cured. Our alcoholism can only be arrested. No matter how long we have been sober, if we try liquor again, we're as bad or worse than we ever were. There is no exception to this rule in the whole history of A.A. We can never recapture the good times of the past. They are gone forever. Will I try to recapture them?

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I thought I would post the AA Thought for The Day today, since it is SO applicable to food addiction. No matter how long we have been sober, if we try sugar again, we are as bad or WORSE than we ever were. Once a food addict, always a food addict, no matter how much weight we've lost. We are never cured. Our food addiction can only be arrested, one day at a time, by sticking to a Food Plan of abstinence which contains NO trigger foods. We can never recapture the good times of the past. They are gone forever. Will I try to recapture them?

For today, I pray to treat my food addiction as seriously as I treat my alcohol addiction.