Food Addiction Recovery – #11
In food addiction recovery you will only be as successful as you are honest with yourself— I promise you that is true. Honesty with yourself is essential in setting your binge food list and modified binge food list (see #31 & #32 for more detail coming later in this series – if you can’t wait then call me for what I mean here). As a food addict you also have to be honest in holding yourself accountable to the lists and honesty in the portions you eat at each meal. You can try to tell yourself that your one-cup portion is really only half a cup, or that the slivers of cake you eat don’t really count—but your body will know better. Compulsive overeating is something that will slip up on you even when you are watching.
In Food Addiction Recovery Don’t Debate When To Start
Start your plan right now. Don’t wait for a fresh day, a fresh week, or even a new year to get started. As a compulsive overeater waiting for the perfect starting line will simply delay progress you could be getting started on today. Putting it off for the right moment is simply a form of procrastination—and you can put things off indefinitely if you let yourself. Putting it off is the food addict conversation in your head talking to you.