Our lives became unmanageable when the car wouldn’t start, the computer broke down, or our checking account wouldn’t balance. We suffered from other people’s unmanaged lives or from bad luck. What alternative did we have? We ate to sate the […]
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Amateur
Overeaters Anonymous should remain forever non-professional, but our service centers may employ special workers. Tradition Eight “Amateur hour” can be a term of of derision. The Urban Dictionary says, “Something that is done sloppily, half-assed, or in an amateur manner.” […]
Continue reading »The Meaning of Abstinence
“The simple ability to eat and sleep normally and wake up glad you are alive, glad you abstained yesterday, and glad you have the privilege of abstaining today.” ~ Voices of Recovery (Kindle Locations 2336-2337). The diet mentality lingers long, making […]
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This may be a fine program but it’s not going to work for me, I know since I’ve tried everything, most of them multiple times… like Weight Watchers, Adkins diet, those candies, do you remember, Aids before that meant something […]
Continue reading »Three Kinds of Better
We come for the weight loss, for recovery of the body. That’s all we’ve sought our whole lives through, convinced once the body’s right everything else falls in place. We find when we come they speak of other recovery… of […]
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