Victory Over Addiction Symbol Helps Alex overcome A Cheese Cake Addiction

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Fortunately for me, I saw alcoholism in my family as a child and all of the pain it caused my family, and decided never to go that direction. I did however; find that I had become addicted to sugar as a comfort in the form of cookies, candy, ice cream, cakes or most of all, cheese cake. I realized last year that when I was going through stressful times, I would binge on cheese cake. I would go all day long, not eating and then have not just one, but sometimes two or three pieces of my addiction. I justified that I really wasn’t eating that much, and after all, what could it hurt?

I began to gain weight from all of the fat content in the cheese cake, as the fat goes directly to your fat cells, and never leaves your body.  I would stress out and have a “tea party”, just like my grandmothers taught me when I was a child, and stop my day and go where the best cheese cake could be found. Soon, I realized I was 20 pounds heavier.

I prayed about what to do and was reminded by my Holy Spirit that I could use the Victory Over Addiction symbol in my prayers and I would be able to get my own personal victory over addiction. Years ago I had read that if a person goes without whatever substance is addictive to them for six weeks that they would be healed. After six weeks, the addicted person would have to “force feed” themselves the substance in order to begin the addiction again.

I decided to scan the three Hebrew letters of the Victory Over Addiction name of God for about ten minutes each day. I made myself not stop for a “tea party” for the first two weeks time and instead used that time to just scan the letters. In the third week I got weak and decided to just stop and have one slice of cheese cake. As I sat waiting for my “fix” to arrive, I thought how good it was going to taste and how much I loved my cheese cake.

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