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Post by caressa on Dec 6, 2010 7:35:25 GMT -5
If we do only what feels good and what is comfortable, we do not grow. If we do not stretch our minds, we vegetate intellectually. If we do not discipline our bodies, we become physically flabby and weak. If we do not exercise our goodwill, we stay emotionally immature.
To settle for minimum achievement is to miss the satisfaction of accomplishing more than we once thought possible. It is trite but true that we never know what we can do until we try.
- Food for ThoughtDidn't like the description of flabby and weak and yet in all honesty, it spoke to me for a reason. As they say, "The truth with hurt," even if it will set you free. I was told the failute is in the not trying. Trying and failing to meet my expectations is not as bad as not trying because I think I can't. For me, it is fear that takes over. I think of my mother dying at the age of 40 as a result of her food addiction. I don't want to follow in her footsteps although I have long outlived her. For me, to gain weight is to die. For my sponsor, to lose weight was to die. It depends on which way you look at it, an eating disorder is an eating disorder if you are not eating healthy. I can get complacent, cut myself some slack, but in the long run, it is me who pays and it is me I hurt. I can justify and rationalize all I want, but must remember that they are both part of my disease not part of my recovery.
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Post by caressa on Jan 5, 2013 6:11:42 GMT -5
This jumped out at me tonight. I am not sure that my "Comfort Zone" is a good place to be. I like not having any swelling, but when there is no swelling, I have more pain. I also notice that my thinking towards my food changes. I think I am thin, and I don't want to gain, so I don't want to eat. Yet for the most part, my food has nothing to do with it, unless I am eating a lot of salt and white. White turns to sugar and my pain increases. I had no pain when I started posting tonight and I had a snack before I started. Since I ate, I have been thinking food, but haven't had any, just made myself a cup of raspberry tea. As they say, "Just because I have been doing things for "X" number of years, doesn't make it right. Sometimes we have to take risks, take the next step, and stretch our boundaries, to get out of what has become an old pattern and behavior, instead of a true comfort zone.
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Post by majestyjo on Jan 8, 2021 20:12:07 GMT -5
My sponsor said a comfort zone was like a well worn pair of sneakers. When you buy a new pair but may cause some damage to the feet before they get broken in.
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