I BELIEVE I WAS born a compulsive overeater. When I was eighteen months old, my parents found me on the floor, sharing a bone with our labrador retriever. At age three, I discovered “trick or treating”: the next time Mom […]
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Irreducible
I know many words, useful tools they are. This one discovered today intrigues, inspires. Irreducible. Impossible to transform into or restore to a desired or simpler condition. Bare bones, essence, quintessence. The root, the core. Our commitment to abstinence first […]
Continue reading »THE ONLY REQUIREMENT
3.The only requirement for OA membership is a desire to stop eating compulsively. ~ Third Tradition, Overeaters Anonymous If you want to be in the flock, you belong. Our flock is made up of people with problems with food. We’re […]
Continue reading »Often I Wished I Had Her Body
My older sister was tall and thin, could reach top shelves flat-footed, fit clothes from the rack, provided they covered her knees. I lacked inches in height, had excess in girth, wore “chubby” then, in an allegedly “kinder gentler” age, “plus […]
Continue reading »The Anonymity Wave
Remember what we say each time a meeting ends. “Please remember our commitment to honor each other’s anonymity. ‘What you hear here, whom you see here, when you leave here, let it stay here.’” To which we respond, “Hear, hear!” […]
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