For all of us, however, the days of controlled eating grew fewer and farther apart, until at last we came to OA, looking for a new solution. ~ The Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions of Overeaters Anonymous (Kindle Locations 68-69)

Sure I could lose weight — expertly!
I was great at it for a while,
obsessive compulsive on the diet du jour.
But then with some success I delivered
a prize well-merited, starting the downhill slide.
Again and again, weight creeping up,
Up and down, yo-yoing forever,
but the time for diets becoming abbreviated,
the binges a way of life. Until finally, enough!
When I walked through the doors
of Overeaters Anonymous, I came as expert,
stayed as hopeless, powerless, surrendered.
And with that start, it clicked, I became new,
and finally found a way to like me no matter what,
and that got rid of the stuff that once seemed to matter.