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"In the deepest part of a compulsive
eater's soul ... is the realization
that recovery begins when we find one
another."
Anonymous
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Growing up in the deep South in the
1950's, I witnessed things I never
dreamed could happen. It taught me
lessons I have never forgotten. Little
did I think that someone like me could
ever be discriminated against. After
all, I was the right color, the right
size, the right religion and lived on
the right side of town.
Messages began to be taped early on in
that little girl's brain ... into the
psyche of that teenager who worked so
hard to achieve ... and into the young
woman who had the world by the tail. In
adulthood those messages began to play
... and food made the messages easier to
hear. So began the life of a compulsive
eater. So began discrimination because
of my weight.
Years later I would be grateful for my
life as an overweight adult. I would
look back and see that the God of my
understanding was preparing me to see
discrimination as a disease of the
soul. But what happened to give me
serenity and peace and contentment? I
found another compulsive eater. And then
I found another ... and another. And
recovery began.
ONE DAY AT A TIME . . .
I will overwrite those taped messages;
I will not regret the past;
And I will cherish my fellows forever.