Diary of a Food-FighterOA
“I joined a GYM!”
Over the years, I have joined a few gyms. I liked a couple but hated most. I never was one who enjoyed exercise (especially when done <GASP!> in public!!). The only thing I ever took-to was jogging, probably because it can be a pretty solitary thing, and that I did sporatically and obsessively. (Nowadays my feet …
Sweet & Lowdown
One of my most persistent food issues has to do with artificial sweeteners. When I first became abstinent, they were the least of my worries, but as my abstinence has changed and I have been better able to focus on the nutritional soundness of what I AM eating rather than the “monumental sacrifices” I have …
The Big Book’s “Food Plan”
The following is an excerpt from The Big Book, pages 133-134: “One of the many doctors who had the opportunity of reading this book in manuscript form told us that the use of sweets was often helpful, of course depending upon a doctor’s advice. He thought that all alcoholics should constantly have chocolates available for …
“…we will be amazed…”
Here are just a few definitions of the word “amazed” that I recently found online: …bewildered, greatly surprised, astonished, overwhelmed, awestruck, to be stunned by the greatness of a thing, tongue-tied, speechless,… I chose the ones that I thought best expressed my own sense of “amazement” at the magnitude of the conversion from hopelessness to …
