Tag: 12-step recovery
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Understanding Step 1: Powerlessness Over Food
Here’s the beautiful paradox of Step 1: the moment we admit we are powerless over food, is the moment we start getting our life back. When we stop trying to dominate food, food slowly loses its power over us. Mental peace becomes possible. Eating becomes simpler. Life expands beyond obsession and self-criticism.
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Appley Oats
These Appley Oats are a quick, grounding, whole meal designed to support abstinence and consistent nourishment. Especially on busy mornings or vulnerable days when you just want something warm and nourishing – and quick.
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Weight-Loss In Food Addiction Recovery: Releasing Instead of Losing
If you have ever been trapped in that “classic” diet cycle, you know the obsession well – calories, scales, goal weights, “before” and “after” photos. The pursuit of control becomes it’s own kind of addiction. In food addiction recovery, the goal shifts. It’s not about losing weight anymore. It’s about quieting the food noise. And…
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Roasted Spaghetti Squash
Roasted spaghetti squash is one of those quiet heroes in food addiction recovery. Simple. Dependable. Deeply satisfying without lighting up old cravings. No Sugar. No Flour. No substitutes pretending to be pasta. Just real food, prepared with care.
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Year-End Reflection: Cultivating Recovery in 2026
As 2025 comes to a close, its the perfect moment to pause and look back on the past year. For those of us in food addiction recovery, Step 10 of 12-step recovery offers a gentle yet powerful way to reflect, take inventory, and set ourselves up for growth in the year ahead.
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How To Handle Holiday Parties Without Losing Your Abstinence
Holiday parties can feel like an alternate dimension when you’re a food addict in recovery. The music is loud. The dessert table looks like it’s being spotlighted from heaven. Someone is always trying to hand you a plate of something “you just have to try.” The smells alone can feel like an ambush. It’s a…
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Why We Organize Our Recipes By Food Type (And Why It Matters So Much In Food Addiction Recovery)
You will not see the usual “breakfast”, “lunch”, “snacks”, or “dinner” categories. Instead, everything is grouped by simple food types: proteins, starches, veggies, fruits, dairy, and healthy fats. At first glance, it might seem unusual or overly simple, but there’s actually a very real and very recovery-centered reason behind it.
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When “Sugar Season” Hits: How Food Addicts Can Protect Their Recovery During December
December is an intense month for anyone who has ever used food to cope, soothe, celebrate, numb, or survive. But with the right tools, the right spiritual support, and a steady connection to your recovery, you can get through “sugar season” with peace, confidence, and clarity. And your abstinence in tact.
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How To Navigate Thanksgiving As A Food Addict In Recovery
The holidays can certainly stir up powerful emotions – nostalgia, family tension, loneliness, comparison, and fear of missing out. Yes – combine good ‘ol FOMO with endless desserts, casseroles, and those “just taste this” moments, and it’s easy to slide back into old behaviors if we are not spiritually prepared. That’s why this holiday requires…
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The Pink Cloud In Food Addiction Recovery
The “pink cloud” is a term borrowed from addiction recovery circles, describing the euphoric state that often comes in early sobriety – or in our case, early food abstinence. It’s the high that comes from finally breaking free from the obsession. Your body detoxes from sugar and flour, your mind clears, and for the first…
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Finding Balance: Weighing Yourself in Recovery
Recovery asks us to trade control for surrender, obsession for balance, and fear for honesty. So how does that translate when it comes to stepping on the scale? Can we use the scale without letting it use us?
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What I Eat In A Day As A Food Addict In Recovery
In this post, I’m sharing what I eat in a typical day as someone living in abstinent recovery – not as a diet, but as my lifestyle – a daily rhythm that keeps me grounded, clear-minded, and connected to my Higher Power (and my hunger cues). This is not about perfection, or dieting – this…