Would it feel like getting
a mop and a bucket?
Would it look like a diet book
or a membership to the latest,
the greatest – purportedly —
new program? Is abstinence
willpower? A diet?
A list of dos and don'ts?
Abstinence in Overeaters Anonymous
is the action of refraining
from compulsive eating
and compulsive food behaviors
while working towards
or maintaining a healthy body weight.
"The action of refraining."
How is refraining an action?
Action: the fact or process
of doing something,
typically to achieve an aim.Sounds like "just doing it."
Wouldn't that be a gift?
Eating right, a fact, a process?
Not an agony, a choice, a decision,
an excruciating source of failure?
That kind of abstinence...
yep, that's a gift, and more like
your heart's desire
than a mop and a bucket.
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