FOOD FOR THOUGHT - OA OCTOBER

[MajestyJo]

Tuesday, October 7, 2014

You are reading from the book Food for Thought

Old Anxieties

The causes of our past anxieties may no longer be operative. Compulsive eating behavior, however, brings back these anxieties in full force. Our weight may be normal, but we are never safe from the danger of personality disintegration brought on by a return, however slight, to compulsive overeating habits.

If we are to maintain our sanity and our sobriety, we must continue to abstain completely from all patterns of thinking and behavior associated with overeating. We have become new people. Daily we grow stronger and freer from old fears and anxieties. The new behavior, which gives us this new freedom, is abstinence. Without abstinence, we will again be overwhelmed and incapacitated by irrational fear and anxiety.

To be alive is to experience a certain amount of anxiety. We will never be completely rid of all fear. As long as we are abstaining, however, and relying on our Higher Power instead of ourselves, we will be given the confidence and serenity we need.

I turn over to You my anxieties.

We will never be completely rid of all fear. As long as we are abstaining, however, and relying on our Higher Power instead of ourselves, we will be given the confidence and serenity we need.

There are healthy fears, they are manageable with God at our sides when we walk in faith and stay clean and sober. Sobriety is clean and sober and I look at my food addiction the same way as I did my alcohol abuse. I didn't have soundness of mind when I used food to deal with my feelings and issues at hand. The thoughts of more were applicable to food, pills, alcohol, attention, etc. always feeling like I never had enough.

Fear is a normal feel, it is how we handle it that makes the difference. Eating a carton of ice cream or a bag of chips is not the solution. God answers knee-mail.