Thoughts after listening to an OA speaker

[JustWatchMe 7,117]

"You're going to feel so much better once you put down the food."

I thought this meant I would feel happy.

What I found instead is it means I "feel" better. I feel anger better. I feel happiness better. I feel resentment better. I feel fear better. I feel. I really feel. It's what I was running away from all the time.

I just have to feel it now. Not eat it.

Here's to living life and feeling the feelings. Sometimes they're wonderful, many times they suck. But today I'm not going to eat them.

[Alex Brecher 10,515]

"You're going to feel so much better once you put down the food."

I thought this meant I would feel happy.

What I found instead is it means I "feel" better. I feel anger better. I feel happiness better. I feel resentment better. I feel fear better. I feel. I really feel. It's what I was running away from all the time.

I just have to feel it now. Not eat it.

Here's to living life and feeling the feelings. Sometimes they're wonderful, many times they suck. But today I'm not going to eat them.

Great way to start off the new year. Cheers to feeling!

[Inner Surfer Girl 12,015]

Very well said. It is hard to explain when you are in the food, but being numb really sucks, especially in comparison to feeling your feelings.

I have never been to an OA meeting where I didn't hear something I needed to hear at that time.

[Jack 855]

"I just have to feel it now. Not eat it."

Well Stated!!!

Years ago on the old Lap Band Talk precursor of the present magnificent incarnation, one of the more experienced Bandsters posted to the effect that 'if your hunger isn't satisfied by a normal helping, you are trying to feed something else'.

Sure got my attention.

Happy New Year.

[Queen of Crop 1,104]

Wonderful statement....a few years ago I stopped thinking so much and started feeling...a much better way to live a full life! Here's to all of us who are learning to feel and trust our instincts.

Happy New Year my friends!