FOOD FOR THOUGHT- OA/AUGUST 2014

[MajestyJo]

Thursday, August 14, 2014

You are reading from the book Food for Thought

Rationalizing

We compulsive overeaters are experts at making excuses for taking the line of least resistance. Before we entered this program, we could always find a reason for eating. How many times did we say, "Just one little bite can't possibly hurt"?

It is hard to say no to ourselves and to other people, even though we may realize that saying yes would be hurtful to our health or our integrity. We think up reasons for going along with what other people want us to do, rather than "rocking the boat" by standing up for what we know to be essential for our recovery.

Often we convince ourselves by rationalizing that all is well when it is not. Our emotional and spiritual health requires that we examine honestly our behavior and our relationships. When they are not right, we need to take action to correct them.

By Your light, may I see clearly.

Seems to me I was justifying about justifying a few days ago.

We don't have to give a reason for being, and I thought I did. I thought I had to justify my existence, those old tapes were hard to erase. How can you make a new tape when you don't have a clue, you can't know what you have never been taught.

Saying what we think someone else wants us to say, leaves us with no identiy and we live our life through others and lose ourselves.