With our heads, we know that food is not the same thing as love. When this fact sinks into our emotions, we are released from our obsession with food. In order to reach this point of emotional development, we need to abstain physically from compulsive overeating. As long as we are physically addicted to refined sugars and starches and binge foods, we do not have the perspective necessary to move away from our emotional attachment to these foods.
#####ROSIE.....oh i know exactly why i was so bad with *munchies* junk food binges i would do!!!! it was to fill the emptiness/ to numb my pain/ to comfort me....with no arms to hold me, i stuffed myself ...i would get drousey and take a nap afterwards.....i know now that that action only temporarily numbs my pain/ anger/grief and that it does not cause the pain to go away...it just gets drousy for a bit, temporarily put to rest, only to come back again and again, and i think worse in its try to get me to *deal and heal*......i am much better with my eating now!!!! WAY better....now i listen to my IC...not numb her....i ask myself "ok why are we.............?"......i threw out all my junk stuff that i was known to abuse.....my addictions are chocolate ( organic M&M's were the worst)....fritos and cheetos are another weakness.....i find that drinking TONS of water .......i take one quart (i do 2 qts. per day) my *cleanser* is 1 QT water (bottled) 2 oz. maple syrup (natural. organic) try 1 oz if you can stand it....AND about 2 oz lemon (organic) and i shake it up/ sip it/ cleanse myself.....WAY less desire to binge....i mean it makes me feel like i am having a *treat* w/out all the crap....maple syrup, the REAL stuff is very good for my body....good nutriants, the lemon causes cleansing ..it draws the toxins so they are flushed out of the body.....when i do this??? i have NO body odor hardly....my skin looks great.....and it kills the urge to *cheat*......the calories in the maple syrup are gong to tally out way less than the binging on a bag of fritos/ cheetos, and the chocolates......the weight is already falling back off........as an athlete, i am fortunate, along with good matabolism, i am even more fortunate but this recovery caused me to be 15# overweight.....a first for me.....i was always *saw blade* thin......15# may not sound like much but it is for me......it is unecessary!!!!!!
It is easy for babies and children to confuse food with love. As they mature, they learn to discriminate between the two. If we are compulsive overeaters, we need the OA program and a spiritual awakening to bring clarity to our confusion. We have much emotional and spiritual growing up to do.If our early needs for love was not satisfied, no amount of food will compensate. It is by giving love that we are able to fill our inner emptiness, and it is through our Higher Power that we are healed and made able to love........May we remember in our hearts that food is not love.
#######ROSIE....well for me it was the only thing that made me feel like i was getting any comfort....B4 i learned about nurturing myself....taking care of me etc....yeah, food / drink was the thing.......my early needs for love were STARVED!!!! i don't remember my mom holding me much/ loving me much.....my aunts and uncles did, but they wren't with me each day....and the touching i got from him????? pure revulsion!!!! i didn't want to be touched by ANYone after that started....and i craved it deep inside.....i drank and ate to comfort me!!!!! thank God i burned calories like a 5 alarm fire, cuz they way i ate??? i would be a REAL "mama moose"......i am older now, so i have to "watch it a little" but still, i crammed all kinds of stuff in my *pie hole* to feel comforted....now??? i try to talk to me...be NICE to me....cuddle my stuff toys.....and yes, reaching OUT....giving love, and getting it back..... nope!!! food is NOT love!!!! i know what i have to do....and i am doing it........thank you DONE
