SWCTOA
  • Home
  • About OA
    • What is OA
    • Newcomers - How Do I Start?
    • Our Invitation To You
    • Twelve Steps
    • Twelve Traditions
    • Twelve Concepts
    • Tools of OA
    • Slogans of OA
  • Meeting List
  • Our Intergroup
    • WSBC 2023
    • What We Do
    • Speaker List
    • Intergroup Rep
    • Intergroup Bylaws
    • Seventh Tradition
  • Events
  • Links
  • Contact Us
  • SWCTOA IG Blog
  • Together We Can Resources
  • Special Focus Meetings
  • WSBC 2021

Holiday Straight Talk

11/16/2017

0 Comments

 
It was the first year we had the family over for the holidays.  With our house situated near a hospital and a fire station, we were accustomed to the occasional wail of sirens. But the sound of emergency vehicles racing by with increased frequency on this holiday was especially unsettling.  What was the reason?  Accidents?  House fires?  

The next day, I read in the newspaper that the emergency ward was busy tending to people who had decided to celebrate the holidays by taking a break from following doctors' orders "just this once."  Heart patients, who didn't want the side effects of their prescribed medications, didn't take them "just for one day"; diabetics ate too much sugar and made themselves dangerously ill; and alcoholics ended up sick or violent from out of control, celebratory drinking.

When I think I "deserve" to overeat during the holidays, I know I am in denial about the insidious nature of this disease. Sugar is my cocaine, my alcohol and, ultimately, my poison.  I fool myself if I believe I can magically turn the switch on and off at will.  The disease never takes a holiday.  My body reacts the same way to food as it did yesterday, as it will tomorrow and 365 days a year.

Do I really want to deprive myself of a sane and happy holiday?  I don't think so. Not his year.

This article appeared in Lifeline, November 2009, p. 18.  Copyright Overeaters Anonymous, Inc.
0 Comments

Your comment will be posted after it is approved.


Leave a Reply.

    Picture

    OA Members

    Lifeline Revisited: Check out some older articles from Lifeline.

    Archives

    March 2022
    January 2022
    July 2021
    November 2018
    September 2018
    May 2018
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    June 2017

    Categories

    All

    RSS Feed

Home

About

Services

Menu

Contact

Copyright © 2017 SWCTOA
  • Home
  • About OA
    • What is OA
    • Newcomers - How Do I Start?
    • Our Invitation To You
    • Twelve Steps
    • Twelve Traditions
    • Twelve Concepts
    • Tools of OA
    • Slogans of OA
  • Meeting List
  • Our Intergroup
    • WSBC 2023
    • What We Do
    • Speaker List
    • Intergroup Rep
    • Intergroup Bylaws
    • Seventh Tradition
  • Events
  • Links
  • Contact Us
  • SWCTOA IG Blog
  • Together We Can Resources
  • Special Focus Meetings
  • WSBC 2021