"'When you eat one, you want more,
then two, then three, then pretty soon four.'" - A New Beginning, page 4
I heard at meeting once that we are suffering from a disease of more. We want more food, more happiness, more attention, more perfection, more love, more respect, more more more. But one thing I desperately wanted more of was peace and serenity, and I knew that there was no way for me to reconcile that desire with the desire for more food. So the food had to go. But that was easier said than done!
One of the biggest impediments to my abstinence, however, was always the fact that I could see others eat sugar and fast food and pizza and all those other things I loved with impunity. But Dr. Bob worded it best: "I used to get terribly upset when I saw my friends [eat junk food] and knew I could not, but I schooled myself to believe that though I once had the same privilege, I had abused it so frightfully that it was withdrawn. So it doesn't behoove me to squawk about it for, after all, nobody ever had to throw me down and pour [sugar] down my throat." - The Big Book, page 181 (Dr. Bob's Nightmare)
