Well, I'm testifying to the difficulty of this project. There's a reason I get stalled at this point in the quest: it's not possible to have a normal relationship with (some) food, at least not as far as I can tell at the moment.
As soon as I try to eat chocolate or sweets or fatty foods, the old cravings come back and then they stay. And it seems I have to go through withdrawal all over again to get rid of them.
So, what to do? Well, at the moment it seems the only solution is to stop eating those foods that give me trouble. This, of course, is the Overeaters Anonymous philosophy--foods to which you are addicted must be purged from your diet and avoided.
Many alcoholics believe they don't have to stop drinking alcohol completely. They think they can drink occasionally, normally, like other people who don't have a drinking problem. Some do succeed with that, but I wonder how many.
When I was trying to quit smoking years ago, I found that I couldn't just have an occasional cigarette. Having one meant having another and another until the habit was back. And I didn't have much of a habit to begin with!
So, I guess I need to process this information, see what I can come up with for a solution to the problem.
Sorry, Shirley, but I think there's little hope for getting to coping level 1 with most foods.
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