Halloween

[Webmaster 1]

Halloween for me was the most difficult holiday of all. I was a candy binger, so it was my favorite holiday. For the first few Halloweens, I didn't want to be around. I had someone else give out the candy. Last Halloween, I decided not to give out candy. I gave out glow-in-the-dark bracelets. It was a huge success, not only with the kids, but also the parents.

[TYGtoday]

Food for the Soul reading for HALLOWEEN, October 31st (p. 305):

Mask of Denial

Halloween is a day to wear a mask and to say "trick or treat". A day to collect and eat candy.

Before FAA recovery, every day was Halloween for me. Every day I wore a mask. I wore a mask when I went shopping for clothes, pretending I liked what was available in my size when really I would purchase anything that fit. I wore a smiling mask while behind the mask I was crying.

Every day I collected and stashed food, lying and denying the horror of my food addiction. I tricked myself into thinking I was fine and that everyone else was a little bit crazy. I kept my stash of sugar, flour, and wheat to myself. There was no sharing or caring. I would get cavities from sugar and high cholesterol from fat. And I was in fear of the almighty scale.

This Halloween there will be no tricks and no treats of the sugar variety. Instead, I will treat myself to recovery. Halloween has become a day of gratitude, in which I keep my memory green as to the horrors of my active food addiction.

For today, I treat myself to the good things in life that come from living in abstinence.

[nevertoolate]

BOO! WE ALL HAVE TO WATCH OUT FOR THE SUGAR MONSTER LURKING AROUND THE CORNER AT EVERY FAST FOOD PLACE.....THIS HALLOWEEN
marilyn, day 2, AGAIN EVERY DAY COUNTS

[here42da]

I know that this is already posted in other places, but thought it might be a good reminder here as well in this section on Halloween. I was grateful for the meditation reading found earlier in this forum taken from the Food for the Soul meditation book. I also enjoyed the sharing and many meetings of the marathon yesterday, and just wanted to share that that will continue today starting at 4:00 p.m. and will continue till midnight on the phone lines. Plenty of meetings and also plenty of opportunity for sharing e/s/h, or listening as well as time to get contact information from others.
here42da