Week 7: Step 1 | More About Compulsive Eating - Part 1 of 2

Our prayer for this week: God, please enable me to set aside everything I think I know for an open mind and a new experience. Help me see the Truth about my mental obesession before I start to overeat or undereat.

In this Chapter we look at how most of us were unwilling to admit that we were real compulsive eaters. We are still looking at what goes on in the mind with respect to compulsive eating (incl. acting out with food, body obsession and food behaviors) without excess food or trigger foods in my system. Where eating excess food is concerned, can I see that I am mentally different from my fellows?

• Why is it, that when i stop for any length of time, I cannot stay stopped on my own power? 
• Can I see that I have lost the power? choice? control?

These words are interchangable. Do I believe the delusion that I am like normal people? The belief that I am like normal eaters, even when abstinent, has to be smashed if I am to recover. No one - not even science- can make a normal eater out of a compulsive eater.

But there is a solution...