When I use the tools daily I notice that I feel happy, joyous and free! Even so, I don’t practice the tools perfectly. My 12-step program for food addiction suggests certain tools. The love of the fellowship and, through the fellowship, the new relationship I have with a Higher Power brought me to sanity when I desperately needed it.Īnything worth doing well requires daily practice. The 12 steps continue to give me good orderly direction. Not only did I lose the weight, but I’ve kept if off, one day at a time, ever since. This was a completely different experience than all the diets I had tried for so many years.

In January 2007, at 6 feet tall, 230.4 pounds and age 51, I started participating in a very strong 12-step program for food addiction that changed me as a person, gave me a refreshing spiritual foundation, provided a structure that created all new habits, and stoked me into an engine for losing 75 pounds (95 pounds down from my top weight of 250). I hope you'll join me in this kitchen and let me know what's cooking with you. alive… still making progress … still not perfect … finding a new way forward in a growing community of women and men who share a lot in common around food and life. I am deeply grateful for all the kindnesses, large and small, offered to me in recovery. In January 2011, at the age of 55, I began my recovery from a multi-trauma accident, 36 fractures, damaged lungs, and post traumatic stress.

In January 2007, at the age of 51, I joined a 12-step program and began my recovery from food addiction, losing 75 pounds in the process. You are invited to keep coming back to A Cup of Kindness to share your experience, strength and hope fears, doubts and insecurities and to pick up information, inspiration … and have a little fun! This is the kitchen where we talk about food, life, and recovery-a spiritual path to healing and peace.

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