Mon. Food For Thought

November 21st, Moods We used to allow our moods to determine what and how much we ate. If we were feeling good, charged up with enthusiasm, we were usually able to focus our energy on some activity other than eating. Perhaps being in a particularly good mood made it possible for us to stick to some kind of diet for a few days. When the bad moods struck, we invariably turned to excess food for consolation, and we attempted to make the bad moods go away by eating to excess. Any sort of psychic distress became a signal for food. Then, to, some of us found ourselves overeating in times o*******n, because we had no other way to express our joy. When we are committed to abstinence, we have a rock-like foundation for our eating habits which no shifting mood can destroy. No matter how we may feel at a given moment, we abstain from eating compulsively. Moods change and pass away, but abstinence remains. Make firm my commitment to abstinence. Readings by Hazelden Meditaion Series