AS BILL SEES IT, Question 4c

Have you learned to make the right choices to aid your recovery?  What are they?  Have you become willing to go to any lengths?

The choices I make today are totally different from the ones I made 4 years ago and those are different than the ones I made when I started in fellowship.  These choices I feel are right for me because today I'm walking on a spiritual path with God (HP).  When I started in fellowship, I didn't want anything to do with God or a Higher Power.  I didn't trust anyone or anything.  I was in control and I wasn't ready or willing to relinquish this control.

 Today I choose:

• to have God (HP) in my life and to ask for his directions and help in everything I do.
• to pray in the morning (talk to God) and meditate (listen for God).  I also converse with God during the day; I talk to him about what I'm doing.  I ask for his help.
• to eat abstinently - with a weighed and measured food plan. 
• to practice patience, love and tolerance in all of my relationships and to apologize right away when necessary.  
• to reach out to the still suffering compulsive overeater - in whatever way I can (service); sponsoring, phone calls, email, blogging, newsletter, abstinence and meetings (or whatever God deems necessary).  
• to be honest in all my relationships and most of all, to myself.
• to do my daily disciplines that aid my recovery; use all the tools every day (literature, writing, phone calls, meeting, anonymity, service, plan of eating, sponsorship), 10-step, affirmation, God moment, and benefit of being abstinent.
• to do whatever is necessary to aid my recovery.  I have often said that if my sponsor asked me to go stand on the corner naked, I would (I might balk but I would do it)! 

There are several people I have in my life who support me in my recovery and know what my guidelines are for the kind of life I want to live.  They have my permission to point out anything they see me doing that may conflict with this.  My disease is cunning, baffling and powerful; I need to pull out all the stops to fight it. 

GO TO ANY LENGTHS?  You bet I will.