PLEASE NOTE: THESE WRITINGS ARE NOT APPROVED BY
O/.A. OR ANY OTHER PROGRAM.
”The Food Contrarian” Quotes for people recovering from or dealing with eating issues.
The 12 step movements are filled with proverbs, sayings and slogans that combine to provide kernels of truth. These single sentences thought provoking words became the keystones of Recovery. They are the concepts of the 12 step movement reduced to simplistic terms. ‘The Food Contrarian” takes these quotes and when appropriate adapts them to food related issues. They are a simple way of expanding your understanding with easy to remember words for your program. “The Food Contrarian is a helpful workbook for people who are in need of help With Food related issues.
In my 22 years of working 12-step programs I have found that
eating disorders dwarfed any other addictions. I am grateful that I was
able to pass through other addictions-- smoking, coffee, alcohol-- to
find the true addiction for me. The most dangerous disease to have
is the one that you do not know you have. This is most true with
food, as it manifests in so many ways-- overeating, under-eating
(anorexia), bulimia, and countless combinations.
The intention is that this collection of sayings, quotes, and thoughts
bring help to recovering people. From a simple laugh to helpful
insights.You are encouraged to read this in the spirit of taking what works and leaving the rest,. Many have found that when read on
a daily basis, they gain insight, confidence and courage to overcome
their specific problem(s).
COMPULSIVE EATER
1)
For the compulsive overeater putting your foot in your mouth
is bad; putting food in is worse.
2)
The dilemma is that we often try to feed the mind with food
for the body.
3)
No amount of money and no amount of food can satisfy
hunger that starts in the mind.
4)
The road to obesity is paved with compulsive bites and roofed
with empty calories.
5)
Mind/body food.
6)
The actual resisting of one’s persistence strengthens the
disease rather than diminishing it.
7)
Food fix. It’s any food you eat outside the food plan that you have.
8)
Best food trade-off: trading your food for spiritual and
emotional food.
9)
Eating a balanced meal is a start, eating a healthy balanced
meal is progress, eating a healthy balanced meal with the
proper portions is success.
10) It is not only what you eat that counts; it is also what you don’t eat.
11) Be good to yourself; the food you eat today is carried by your
body tomorrow.
12) Being fed up is what is needed to break the eating cycle.
13) It is better to eat the right food in the wrong amount than the
wrong food in the right amount.
14) The overeater eventually learns that more is not better.
15) For the anorexic, more is better.
16) It appears that the shortest distance is from the table to my stomach.
17) The truth is I have had many reasons for gaining weight, and
many reasons for losing weight.
2 TUCHY PALMIERI
“Then, without realizing it, you try to improve yourself at the start
of each new day; of course, you achieve quite a lot in the course
of time. Anyone can do this; it costs nothing and is certainly
very helpful. Whoever doesn’t know it must learn and find by
experience that a quiet conscience makes one strong.”
-Anne Frank
THE FOOD CONTRARIAN 3
COMPULSIVE EATER-CONTINUED
18) The diet progression: the seesaw, the yo-yo, and finally the
boomerang diet.
19) Spiritual and emotional anorexia leads to compulsive eating.
20) The solution to eating disorders may be corrected with vision.
The compulsive overeater sees things smaller than they are
and the anorexic sees things bigger than they are.
21) Immaculate ingestion- consumption without the normal
consequences.
22) Overeating is like pouring water over the embers of the
spiritual flame.
23) The bitter taste of relapse overpowers the food that is eaten
compulsively.
24) There are none so blind as a compulsive eater who cannot see.
25) When an overeater is compulsively eating he has fear and he
gets frozen in his tracks, when the overeater has a food plan he
has the courage to stand on high ground.
26) Compulsive overeater: acting like a banana.
27) Anorexic- string bean.
28) Failure to have a food plan is planning to fail.
29) Bulimic… any food will do.
30) The bread of life for the overeater: a giant sub for a snack.
31) The first apple kept God away, the second apple kept the
doctor away, the third apple started the overeater down the
path of pain and suffering.
32) Compulsive eating: letting the past disrupt the present so much
so that the future is shortened.
33) A sweet tooth often produces a bitter result.
34) Eat one day’s food one day at a time.
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