What is a lifeboat? A ship’s boat, designed to be readily able to rescue and maintain persons from a sinking vessel. For a compulsive overeater, what is the equivalent? What is necessary to stay afloat on rough seas of Recovery? The nine tools are a Plan of Eating, Sponsorship, Meetings, Telephone, Writing, Literature, an […]
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Finding Your Sponsor
To find a sponsor, look for someone who has what you want and ask how he or she is achieving it. Simple enough if you know what you want. Do you need someone old enough to be your parent, a […]
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A flyer had been published by Overeaters Anonymous, To Anyone Starting an Overeaters Anonymous Group and a nacent Lifeline Magazine had begun, but otherwise Alcoholics Anonymous literature was used…until fifty years ago when, as our founder wrote, “I envisioned myself and […]
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10. Overeaters Anonymous has no opinion on outside issues; hence the OA name ought never be drawn into public controversy. I guess you’ve noticed we don’t agree on politics, federal, state or local, and cannot discuss the subject. Possessing guns […]
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From the diet pills prescribed for a thirteen-year-old me through plus sizes, high school and college band uniforms requiring alteration, the fabric between my legs wearing out first, clothes bought in special stores, dieting for forty-eight years, gaining more than I […]
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