There is a spoiler alert on this one. I just finished reading Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol. If you haven't read it yet, you might not want to keep reading. The book is wonderfully well written - tight, suspenseful, action packed. A mystery based on religious symbols set in D.C. There is so much in this novel to consider and one of the many points is that the human body - every person - is and ought to be a temple. That we can do great things if we focus on the positive and look inward to find a higher power.  When I am not binging, my life is so much better on every level. I am able to focus on the people around me, am able to enjoy conversations, am able to be calm within any moment. When I'm binging, all of that disappears in the desperate need/compulsion for food. It's hard to hear what someone else is saying to me if my brain is busy asking 'where's the food? what do I have? When can I get it? Is there enough? Who's watching? Can I get to the store?' It's hard to accomplish anything with this freight train of an addiciton blasting its way through every part of my life. 
I've written recently about not exercising and I still haven't begun. And I've slipped with my eating program as well. I think the two go hand in hand. When my body isn't being used, isn't feeling toned, my defenses are weakened. There's an old familiar pattern returning and I hate to see it back in my life - it's this pattern where I wake up, plan to have a great day, last a few hours and then make a poor decision about food. And the day caves in on itself and at the end of the day I lay in bed and hate myself for what I haven't done (exercise) and what I have done. (eat.)
Back to the book - if I were to view my body as a temple and truly believe that, how could I continue to abuse it? I would never walk into anyone's place of worship and desecrate it - even if I strongly disagreed or even hated the belief system of that particular religion. And yet I desecrate my own temple daily.
    So, a new and public re-commitment to my plan. Time to take care of my temple.