Tues.Food For Thought

November 8th, Cleaning Up Cleaning up after a meal and taking care of leftovers is a hard job for most compulsive overeaters. What makes it so difficult is our old habits of putting the leftovers in our mouths instead of in the refrigerator or the garbage. Once we decide that we will have nothing at all after our measured meal, the clean-up job becomes amazingly easy. If we are not spending our energy fighting the temptation to have a bite of this or that, the energy is available for the task that needs to be done. Cleaning up is accomplished with much less time and effort when we are not arguing with ourselves about what happens to the leftovers. In the past, we may have felt that cleaning up was a demening job. As we work our program, we begin to get more satisfaction from all the work we do, and we are less concerned about the relative status of the jobs that fall to us. There is satisfaction in cleaning up our lives by means of the OA program. May I not be too proud to enjoy cleaning up. Readings by Hazelden Meditation Series