Overeaters

The support group meeting of Overeaters Anonymous at 10 a. Grabbing for the potato chips or Snickers bar as a quick and convenient way to, in the words of Keith Ayoob of New Yorks Einstein College of Medicine, get that 30-second vacation from whatever is bothering you. There are, of course, two major problems with each of these forms of emotional eating. What and why and how you eat is fundamental to your health and happiness. Milk and cookies eating, because when you were a child, you were comforted with food. Second, it leaves the actual underlying cause of your overeating unaddressed and ongoing.

For today: My joy in recovery is multiplied in direct prop