Tiredness and food
Sometimes it’s only when I log on here that I get to know how ‘sober and abstinent’ I am. This morning, I thought I was fine and dandy. Slept well, needed it, in the course of a busy weekend.
Read the recent posts, got a lot of help, made a few replies, and by the time I was done, I had slowed down enough to see that I am actually very tired.
I love to dance and hear music, and that ‘s part of the rich tapestry of life, but I also know that my current success in OA is down to the fact that I keep close to the basic elements of the suggested programme – my meals are regular and EQUALLY important to me, I get enough sleep!!!
When I’m sleep-deprived, the foodie monsters come calling, and they try to tempt me back. I don’t like them, they know I’m tired, and that I don’t have the strength to keep batting them away.
So I’m grateful to this forum. OA tells me that awareness is a tool. But I need some action too. I’ll go to my OA meeting, I’ll go to my festival too, keep my commitments, eat my abstinent meals, but I’ll curtail some of the later stuff. I’ll get home early, and not get completely shattered. If I’m shattered and tired, there’s a good chance I’ll overeat.
That’s how I used to operate. Overeating for ‘energy’. Which was actually delusional. Because bad food does NOT give me energy. It actually makes me more exhausted.
So thank you everybody for this wonderful forum. Hope you all have a 'restful'l Saturday.
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. . . I'm the same way. If I'm over-tired, I'm in danger of eating everything in sight. I also have a great deal of difficulty telling being hungry from being sleepy, especially if the clock says it is not time to be sleepy. Just keep fighting the good fight, Chickie . . . the rewards will come your way.
