The Our Father for Overeaters

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy Kingdom come, thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.

Help me, good and gracious God to learn to eat according to the plan of your creation and for the health and joy you wish for my life.

Give us this day our daily bread

Help me to know and appreciate how you nourish me in the Eucharist and through the many acts of love and care I receive from the people you have put into my life. May my gratitude for these gifts help me to receive bodily food as a blessing as well, rather than a selfish luxury I grasp at apart from you.

and forgive us our trespasses

Forgive me for all the damage I have done to my body and soul through my gluttony and the bad choices I have made so far in life. Forgive me too for sinning against all who are hungry by my own greed, and for any good I have failed to notice was mine to do because I was preoccupied with food.

as we forgive those who trespass against us

Help me to forgive all who have enabled me in my overeating and bad choices, and anyone from whom I learned these habits.

and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.

Break the chains of my inordinate attachments, and help me to walk a vigilant path away from sin and its occasions in my life. Amen.