STEP ONE -- readings from Food for the Soul

[TYGtoday]

Food for the Soul, p. 196

Set Your Sights on Recovery

For today, I surrender to Step One and admit that I am powerless over my food addiction. I pray to my Higher Power for the courage and the commitment to follow the FAA food plan. I do not listen to my disease and try another feeble attempt to control. I resign from the debating team and focus on recovery.

With surrender to Step One, I acknowledge that I have a biochemical disease. I have a daily reprieve. As I answer the Step One questions, I do not beat myself up for what I did in the past. I can leave the past in the past, realizing that my actions were sincere attempts to be well. By admitting my powerlessness, I open many new doors filled with countless miracles.

With sugar, wheat, and flour out of my body today, I accept that I have this disease without shaming or blaming myself. With this understanding that I am who I am, I can now focus on the present.

For today, I regard food only as nourishment so that I can focus on using my gifts and talents for a higher purpose.

[nevertoolate]

THANK YOU SO MUCH, TVG, FOR PUTTING IN ALL THIS GREAT, INSPIRATIONAL MATERIAL. : )
Marilyn in Ohio

[TYGtoday]

THANK YOU SO MUCH, TVG, FOR PUTTING IN ALL THIS GREAT, INSPIRATIONAL MATERIAL. : )
Marilyn in Ohio

You're very welcome, Marilyn ~ my pleasure!

[lynni]

Thank you TYGtoday! I enjoy these posts on the 12 steps!

[TYGtoday]

Thank you TYGtoday! I enjoy these posts on the 12 steps!

I'm so glad you like the readings, lynni. I love the Food for the Soul book of daily meditations, because it was written by recovering food addicts in FAA for other food addicts. Only another food addict knows what it's been like, and when they share their journey of recovery with me in these readings, I find continuing hope for myself. Keep coming back, lynni, and share YOUR experience/strength/ and hope with us!

[TYGtoday]

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[TYGtoday]

This is the reading from page 19 of Food for the Soul. It's the daily meditation for January 19th:

THE MIRACLE OF RECOVERY

How did this miracle of recovery happen for me? Perhaps it all started when I realized God wanted to show me a way out of addiction. I used to think that my weight was too unimportant to bring to God. Now I know that nothing is too small for God to heal.

Food addiction is not too small a thing to talk to God about. This disease affects every area of my life, and I am powerless over it. I need to tap into a Higher Power to stay in recovery. Talking to and sharing my heart with my Higher Power is an extremely important tool for spiritual growth.

I can talk to God by writing a dialog. I tell God what my worries are, and then I write what I think a loving God would tell me. I can write my Step One this way, and indeed, every Step this way. This type of writing allows me to see and to accept that my life was unmanageable before FAA and that I could not control my behavior while eating addictive foods.

I ask for help to understand the true meaning of powerlessness. Powerlessness does not mean hopelessness. Accepting reality, surrendering denial, and following the program means that I am giving myself to my Higher Power for healing.

For today, I talk to God and in return am given the strength to stay abstinent.

[nevertoolate]

This is exactly what I needed to read today, thank you so much for taking the time to put all this info in.
Marilyn in Ohio