My recovery story

My name is Amy and I am a compulsive overeater, food addict, and multiply addicted. I am gratefully abstinent today and in recovery. Today is my ______th day of consecutive abstinence. I have _____ years, _________ months, and ________ days.
I wanted to tell you a little bit about my food plan. Everyone here probably knows the definition of abstinence, which is refraining from compulsive overeating. My abstinence & food plan are very simple; I refrain from eating my binge foods. That means I don’t eat any manufactured, refined, or processed sugar. I only eat sugar in its natural form, for instance, fruit. I don’t eat syrups for instance, especially high fructose corn syrup. I started my abstinence refraining from eating wheat because I had previously discovered in an earlier attempt at abstinence that wheat was very addictive for me. It triggered me to eat volume and other high fat/high sugar foods. I did eat flours made from non-wheat substances. As time went on I discovered that my body preferred not eating flour of any sort. It was just too much sugar flooding my system at one time. I never would have started out wanting this kind of food plan and would have thought life without flour and sugar to harsh a food plan but now I welcome it because it has given me freedom. I do not eat cheese as it is a highly addictive substance for me nor do I eat dessert of any kind, other than fruit. I have a secondary food plan in place which is like a weight loss addendum. Because I have weight to lose I limit how much I eat with caloric limits and measuring foods that are high in fat although they are healthy and not on my binge/trigger lists. I want to stress that my food plan will probably not work for most people. But I am willing to share anything about me that might possibly help another coe/fa. I happen to be a vegetarian, but that is for spiritual reasons. The bulk of my diet is natural and raw foods consisting of vegetables and fruits, eggs, soy, beans, raw & unsalted nuts & seeds.