An 'A-Ha' moment of the day...

[Guest guest]

Hello Everyone,

I am new to this support group, but I have been reading all of your

posts and decided to share my Monday 'A-Ha' moment. I'm at the

point in the IE book where I am learning to make peace with food and

trying not to look at food as 'good' or 'bad', but rather how I

feel. So, here is my story:

I've been having this craving lately for peanut M & M's. So, I

decided to give myself permission to have them & to go to the

vending machine downstairs at work and get them. As I was at the

vending machine, I saw someone I knew and she was like, 'What are

you doing at that nasty machine?'. Then, I passed by a friend and

he said, 'M & M's?? Tisha...those are SO BAD for you', then I passed

by a THIRD person and she was like, 'Why are you going to eat ALL

that sugar now? We are having Mike's (our co-worker) birthday cake

at 3:30...what you can't wait???'. I didn't really have a pleasant

response to any of these people, so I said nothing (if any of you

have any insight to offer on how you handle this or what your

responses are, that would be really helpful).

The first thing I thought for all of them was 'man, these people

have a little bit of food issues' and I could totally relate to

where they are at and what they were saying. As I am learning to

heal these parts of myself, I see it so clearly in others. Funny

how people's stuff comes out and really has nothing to do w/ you at

all, but rather comes from their own issues w/ food, etc. I'm not

going to lie, it did bother me. I mean...three people in FIVE

minutes had something to say about what I was eating...and I didn't

even ask!

So anyway, I'm just going to sit here and slowly enjoy my

M & M's...thanks for listening!

Tisha