Hi, I am very new to FAA. I just joined about five minutes ago because I'm tired of food taking over my life. No matter how much I've tried, binging has always crept back into my life. I want that to stop permanently so I decided to join. So, I just wondered: does anyone have any good suggestions for how to deal with withdrawal? Is any one else new? Thank you for taking time to respond to my questions in advance!
WonderBread
I am pretty new - almost a month- my advise is to take it one day at a time- listen in to as many phone meetings as you can drink a lot of water & be kind to yourself
~WITHDRAWAL, DETOXIFICATION AND BEYOND~Originally Posted by wonderbread
A sponsor helps the food addict understand and deal with the initial experience of abstinence. While our bodies heal from the toxic substances we no longer ingest, we will run the gauntlet of emotions & physical discomforts. It is especially important at this time to be very gentle with ourselves. We will possibly have stomachaches, headaches or dizziness. We may feel totally wiped out and need to sleep. We might experience flu-like symptoms. We may experience none of these things. Be careful! This is just what our bodies must tolerate in order to detoxify. This is when many of us would pick up "just a little" non-abstinent food to get some relief. Remember, when we do that, we must start the detoxificationprocess all over again; we have only postponed the discomfort. The only way out is through
detoxification....
above quote is from our green book page 41...get yourself a copy of the book all the answers are in the book, it is a book to be studied...you can down load it or get a hard copy from the WSO below is a link! Keep coming back...Welcome to food addict anonymous glad you are here!!! Welcome home we have been waiting for you!
http://www.foodaddictsanonymous.org/catalog/13
http://www.foodaddictsanonymous.org/catalog/2
Here is a link to the phone meeting information, It was suggested to me to do 90 meeting is 90 days, Listen with an open mind and keep coming back , at the end of every meeting we answer questions and give out phone numbers, stick around collect numbers ask questions and make out reach calls ... keep coming back again welcome home!!
Alice abstinent food addict recovering in -PA
Welcome! I am fairly new also. I got abstinent on January 30. The things, in retrospect, that I either did or learned were very important when I first got here are pretty simple
1. Reach out to other food addicts. There were only 2 people here when I got abstinent. For a lot of complicated reasons I was unable to get any support from one, and the other offered everything he had. I reached out to the online meetings, phone meetings, and this forum. I reached out to people in other states. I needed the support and guidance from people to keep doing this thing.
2. Eat every meal as scheduled. I made excuses about being busy or whatever and didn't eat at the appropriate times. I only did this on a few occasions because I discovered very quickly that the food plan is laid out in such a way to deter hunger and cravings, and I was messing with that by delaying my eating. I finally learned to prepare plenty of food in advance, set a timer on my cell phone, and eat when it says to eat. It's much easier now.
3. Initially I had to avoid going out to eat or eating at other people's houses. I think it was about 6 weeks before I finally agreed to go out to eat with another abstinent person, and then I was scared. But I did fine - because I had support, I was prepared, and I ate what the food plan had set out for that meal and at the right time.
4. Finally, I had to get real honest with myself about what was addictive food for me and avoid those foods. I also had to rotate foods so that I didn't have too much of anything, or I could feel myself craving that too.
I hope this helps. I'm really glad you're here. The next person who comes in and asks for help you will be able to help now. That's what I love about this whole thing. Stick around. It gets better.
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