Cups & Scales is an inspirational picture book with text and
illustration used by members of Overeaters Anonymous and
others with eating disorders, about weighing and measuring food
and emotions, plus information to contact people and groups who
weigh and measure food, including people in Compulsive Overeaters
Anonymous-HOW; Cups & Scales Forum; Food Addicts Anonymous;
Food Addicts: The Body Knows Online Discussion Group; Greysheeter's
Anonymous; Overeaters Anonymous HOW and 90-Day meetings; and
Recovery from Food Addiction. Contacts are willing to be your phone
buddy or to sponsor you. You get access to phone meeting numbers,
websites, and email addresses to contact people who weigh and
measure.
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This serious picture book with humor will delight. The artist
Mercedes McDonald works in true concert with the editors
to create a picture book that gently instructs. Like Aesop's Fables,
the attitudes of the cups and scales strike lightning quick insights.
They show the trickery we can play and the shifting thoughts that
can lead toward or away from right action - with food and with life.
Cups &amp; Scales does for the problem eater what the popular Stools
&amp; Bottles does for the alcoholic. It looks at the attitudes. The
cups and scales are characters; the illustrations are in full color.
Over the years a practice has grown up where many people
weigh and measure their food as part of a personal plan of
recovery from compulsive overeating, food addiction, anorexia,
bulimia, emotional eating and other eating disorders. There
are many women and men recovering who DO NOT weigh and
measure their food. The authors take no position on weighing and
measuring food. There are many strong feelings about it. This
book is neither endorsed by nor sponsored by any organization.
Here you will learn about weighing and measuring food and
emotions.
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It is not the cups and scales or weighing and measuring that
makes my recovery. It is my perspective toward the cups and
scales and life that helps make life manageable and joyous.
Cups &amp; Scales have more to do with a spiritual program than at
first look.
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What do I bring to food and life with my attitudes -- toward
quantity, big eyes, magical thinking, fear, ruts, starting
something with hope, self-nourishment, moving forward. My
perception about an activity affects the act itself - fear, self-pity,
wanting it to be more than it is, fighting it, getting tired of it,
getting clarity about how it is helpful, trying a new experience.
Often my actions affect my well-being for the day. When I am
at peace with my food and my emotions, I can be at peace with
others. When can I be on a "dry drunk" even when using cups and
scales to weigh and measure food?
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What do cups and scales have to tell me?
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Let's look.