In medical school, we doctors are never taught about overeating, certainly not as a disease. So we are prejudiced against it. Overeaters Anonymous is very successful with cases that haven’t responded to conventional kinds of treatment. This success is often […]
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I Dare You
Rarely have we seen a person fail who has thoroughly followed our path. ~ Alcoholics Anonymous, page 58 It’s right there, the Big Book dare. You doubt it? Fine! Prove it wrong. Thoroughly follow our path! How, you ask? Admit you’re […]
Continue reading »My Story
You want to know about how miserable I was at 300 pounds, how I hated me? You want to know how I returned to a fast-food place until a cashier knew what I would order? You want to know how […]
Continue reading »The Circuit Speakers
Sometimes I grin about my iPod, how little music, how much recovery populates that square inch of comfort and fills my dreams. Joe and Charlie, Chuck C, Patti O, Clancy, John A…. They drone on as I sleep, but just […]
Continue reading »The Old Days
Sometimes the “good” worms into my thoughts – no, not thoughts. My gut, my archival memories, the illusive patterns perhaps once a source of pleasure, later compulsion, habit, obsession – bestowing pain as a sadistic surrogate for comfort. The Old […]
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