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 HUNGER VERSUS APPETITE                           

What's the difference between appetite and true hunger?  Hunger is your body's physical response to lack of food.  Your stomach may growl, you may feel tired, slightly irritable or even have a headache.

Appetite is more about the desire for food. It is the mental and emotional drive to eat, which can be affected by time of the day, food availability, social acceptance, stress and boredom. Tuning into your body's signals and eating when you are truly hungry is an important part of healthy weight management.

 

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I've been gone to long...

and we all seems to need a boost, so ponder over the following to get back on track.

The Twelve Steps of Overeaters Anonymous

1. We admitted we were powerless over food — that our lives had become unmanageable.
2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5. Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.
9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it.
11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these Steps, we tried to carry this message to compulsive overeaters and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

Permission to use the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous for adaptation granted by AA World Services, Inc



Cite:http://www.oa.org/newcomers/twelve-steps/