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Old 05-20-2014, 02:56 AM   #20
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You are reading from the book Food for Thought

Goals

In the OA program, our ultimate goal is not to be able to follow perfectly some diet or other. It is not even to arrive at a certain number of pounds by a certain date. Our goal is nothing short of becoming a new person, the person God intends us to be. Now that is a goal worthy of a lifetime's work!

We begin with the desire to stop eating compulsively. For a while, that may be goal enough. Sooner or later, we discover that in order to stop eating compulsively we need to rely on a Power greater than ourselves, and in the process of developing a relationship with this Higher Power, our goals change.

As our spiritual awareness increases, new possibilities are opened to us. As we experience God's grace in our daily lives, we become less self-centered and more centered in Him. Little by little, our willfulness is absorbed by His will and we are more sensitive to His direction. Our mood changes from one of despair to one of hope, and we grow in willingness to follow wherever our Higher Power leads.

Lord, direct my goals.
My goal was always to lose weight. Because my mom died so young, as a result of her disease, I went through most of my life thinking, to gain weight was to die. My sponsor was the opposite, for her, to lose weight was to die because of anorexia.

In today, my goal is to make healthy choices. My goal is to live life without the compulsive/obsessive nature of my own disease.
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