Just For Today....

My name is Kristy. I am a Compulsive Overeater. I want to take one day at a time. I want to recover from eating too much and from my food addiction. I have been binging 2 weeks and have been unable to stop. Today I want to try to regain my control. I will not go on a crazy diet, and I will not weigh myself. I just want to focus on eating in moderation, and excercising my body. My body needs activity, and my body needs just the right amount of food to nourish it. "I don't do extra food today. Food is not my god. I won't go there. Food is the sympton of "I didn't do what I want, and this is what I do to make up for it." "

Here is my plan for today:

Food Plan:

Breakfast: 2 cups acorn squash; 1/4 cup walnuts, 1 small box raisains

Lunch: Grilled cheese sandwich ( 2 slices bread, 2 slices cheese, mustard), 3 cups salad with 2 tablespoons dressing, apple

Snack: 1/2 cup cottage cheese, sugar free oranges, 1/2 english muffin

Dinner: Smart One's Veggie Lasagna, 3 cups salad with fat free Italian dressing

Snack: 1/2 cup frozen peaches, yogurt

1600 calories


Body Plan:
Workout-1 hour treadmill, 200 crunches, 80 crunches on ab machine, 40 crunches on ab ball.

Mind Plan:

Attend OA meetings. Read OA stories.

"If I am not the problem, there is no solution"

"I don't need the extra food to save myself anymore. I choose recovery".

"Dear God, save me from being Angry-at myself and at others."

"God, Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, To change the things I can, and the Wisdom to know the difference. Amen."

"One day at a time..."


The Twelve Steps of Overeaters Anonymous
1.We admitted we were powerless over food — that our lives had become unmanageable.
2.Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
3.Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
4.Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5.Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
6.Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
7.Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
8.Made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.
9.Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
10.Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it.
11.Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
12.Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these Steps, we tried to carry this message to compulsive overeaters and to practice these principles in all our affairs.