FOOD FOR THOUGHT- OA/AUGUST 2014

[MajestyJo]

Wednesday, August 13, 2014

You are reading from the book Food for Thought

Be Prepared

We need to be prepared for times when we will be tempted to eat the wrong kind of food. This may mean eating our planned meal before going to an event where the right food may not be available. It may mean adjusting our meal schedule so that we can wait to eat until after an event where the wrong kind of food is served.

In the past, we may have used the excuse of not hurting someone's feelings in order to rationalize a deviation from our food plan. No hostess should expect a guest to consume food to which he or she is allergic. We alone are responsible for what goes into our mouths. If we are faced with food, which will activate our illness, it is better to be hungry than to eat what makes us sick.

When we are willing to go to any lengths to maintain abstinence, we can find a way to deal with dangerous food situations. "No, thank you" is a very useful tool.

May I be prepared for times of temptation.

Like the "No, thank you." It speaks volumes as long as I continue to say it. I can only continue to do so, with the courage and strength that comes from my God.

We go through a grieving process when we lose the foods that we can no longer eat. Self-justification and rationalize are a danger. For example, me saying I can have it is made of chocolate. It is the amount of chocolate and the type of chocolate that I tend to stretch the truth on.

I also needed to be prepared for my disease slipping in, I don't have to physically pick something up, but I can be obsessive and compulsive about certain foods and think my way into eating.

I can allow my emotions to build without dealing with them and applying my program. Just because I have a feeling, doesn't mean I have to act on it. Old behaviours, I don't like this feeling, I don't want to go there, and we reach out for something, anything to stuff it and make it all go away.