Stop Baby Girl: You Cannot Reason a Binge
When the thought of binge eating comes to Jacki A., she turns to writing to remind herself of her inherent self worth.
Readings
Returning from Relapse, I Did a Step Ten Inventory and Started Working Step Eleven Daily
“I though God had forgotten me in my relapse,” says Hafeze from Gilan, Iran. She later realized that God was simply waiting for her to ask for help. When she came back to OA, she was blessed with a better understanding of the disease and how to find recovery.
It Took Four Years of Surrendering and Working the Steps. Now I Have the Gifts of Food Neutrality and Equanimity
“Now when I see cake, I can walk on by. It doesn’t call my name,” says Susan from New York USA. What an amazing gift of abstinence and recovery.
Now Hiring: A Big God
Jacki shares a writing exercise placing a help wanted ad for her personal Higher Power. In OA, we need a Power that is greater than our problem with food, and we get to choose for ourselves the nature of this Higher Power.
I Couldn’t Bypass My Emotional Recovery
Weight-loss surgery (actually 2 surgeries) was not a magic bullet for Anonymous who writes after having joined OA in the last few years. Not only did she gain weight in the process, but when she lost weight, she “struggled with the comments abut the weight I was losing and the flirty attention I was receiving.” With OA, she has found emotional recovery and a sensible plan of eating.
I Became Abstinent After Looking More Closely at My Compulsive Eating and Changing My Definition of Abstinence
I’ve been in OA for well over fifteen years now. It wasn’t until my thirteenth year in this wonderful program that I was able to be abstinent. It took me this long, simply because I had given myself definitions and forms of abstinence that I could not reach. For the longest time, I would not … Continued
It Is Truly Never Too Late to Come Back to Overeaters Anonymous
Can you find recovery from compulsive eating later in life? Nancy from Texas USA came back in her mid 60s after 30 years of relapse with compulsive eating. “That first meeting when I returned to OA was a ‘God moment’ for me,” she says, “and I’ve had many more God moments since.”
To My Higher Power
What does it feel like to be willing? It might feel so good that you can’t help but pray “make it stay forever . . . just for today.”
A New Dimension of Unease: Traveling and Working the OA Program
Mary was very excited about her trip to Italy, but she had also became very anxious about it’s world-famous food culture, a prime attraction for tourists. How to manage this? She found simple and powerful answers from her sponsor and OA-approved literature. Her sponsor’s reminder? “I’m pretty sure God is in Italy.”
I’d Always Had an Abnormal Relationship with Food. When I Started Searching for Help, Overeaters Anonymous Saved My Life.
“Before OA, I had tried every diet, every exercise, every new ‘thing’ to lose weight. What I hadn’t tried was fixing myself from the inside out.” Join Agnes, a compulsive overeater, as she shares how OA helped her find a workable plan for freedom from her food behaviors.