I finally managed to go to confession and actually tell the priest about my eating disorder.
I don't feel any better now with my ED, and it's not like eating has become easier or anything. But I feel reassured in my faith (not that I feel any closer to God than I did before) and I realised that I need to spend more time with God. Thank God for that.
I am scared of lent. Today at mass the priest read out the bishop's letter for lent, and it was all about how we should fast in let. It really scared me, seeing that I had just been to confession and now I'm being told to fast during lent. It would be so easy to fast for me and such a good excuse to stop eating altogether once more. But I think this would be just what I shouldn't do. I really want to get better at the moment and so I think fasting is probably the worst thing I could do right now.
Still, I need to make a decision how I want to mark lent this year. I really want to take up my prayerlife again and attempt to go to mass and adoration, and of course to confession more often.
I thought about giving up chocolate or meat, but then I realised that I don't eat much of them anyway because everytime I crave either of them in the end I can't eat anything because I start thinking about how fat they are going to make me. So I guess I won't give up any type of food this year. Maybe I should talk to a priest about this. After all, fasting is a really important part of lent.
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