Recovery Working the Program No Disrespect By admin Posted on November 1, 2018 2 min read 0 Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Google+ Share on Reddit Share on Pinterest Share on Linkedin Share on Tumblr “Don’t dwell on any real or imagined pleasure you once got from certain foods. Change the channel!” (Before You Take That First Compulsive Bite, Remember . . .) Even after years of not eating my trigger foods, I have the habit of not going down supermarket aisles that contain the non-foods I used to worship. If by chance my husband buys some for himself, I don’t allow them in any cupboard that I open ten or twenty times a day. I put those things somewhere away from my sight and tell my husband where they are. At first, he didn’t understand, and he still finds it a bit strange, but thankfully he has accepted my request. My not dwelling on the foods I used to abuse is me respecting my dis-ease, my dis-order. I used to be disrespectful of my trigger foods, which led me to disrespect all kinds of other foods. For me, I know I can’t have just one bite or one portion of my trigger foods (which have sugar as their primary base). Yes, of course, I felt the loss at first, but it did become a feeling of surrender, acceptance, and freedom. In no official dietary guidelines do I see my trigger foods listed. I do not need them to live a strong and healthy life. It is quite the opposite, and I am in gratitude for “mutually respectful” living. — Barbara W., Canada
