March 17

"Abstinence is as easy for me as temperance is difficult." ~ Samuel Johnson


Deciding I'm going to have a binge tonight and then quit is like saying I'll be green-eyed today and go back to being blue-eyed tomorrow morning. As crazy as that sounds, it's what I did before I came to OA. Against all the evidence, I thought I could handle an occasional pig-out, as many noncompulsive people do. I stubbornly refused to recognize the difference between myself and the normies: I could not stop. As one OA put it, "First there was the Friday night eat-all-you-want plan, which quickly became the weekend plan, which quickly slopped over into Monday and Tuesday, which then swallowed up the entire week." 


For Today: As a compulsive overeater, it is far easier for me to abstain from overindulgence in food than to try to become a "normal" binger. 


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