I Took Step One!

[MML]

With encouragement from the :bowl, I found an OA meeting and went Saturday! It felt so GOOD to go and actually say out loud "I am a compulsive overeater."

Shame and fear just melted away as I listened to other OA members talk about things that I have always tried SO HARD to keep a secret from anyone (including myself).

I am working on step one this week which is: I accept that I am powerless over food and my life has become unmanagable. I thank all the :bandwagon fishies in the :bowl for caring enough to share!

You've helped me so much already!

:peace :love :clover

[kareliz]

RIGHT ON, MML!

I just want to congratulate you for having the courage to attend an OA meeting! Yeah!

I hope this is just the thing for you. Let us know what you think of OA and how its going for you.

I'm giving you a cyber-high-five!

kareliz

[ARTgrrlOne]

:stars :hugon MML :hugoff :stars

Congrats! :balloons I'm glad you've found some thing you're comfortable with! Keep it up! :yay

:love
Ally :sun

[CurveeCurls]

What a step MML! That makes me so happy for you. I know that my first OA meeting was an amazing experience. Of course I sobbed and fell apart all over the table, but I couldn't believe that there were actually people in this world that felt the same way I did about food -- insane!

I think the most important thing is that OA and its members offer so much hope. It really is a magical thing to see this program at work and working in so many people's lives. It gives me a great sense of hope for recovery. I hope you get the same message. Keep goin back!

Lotsa :loveLove!:love

~Curls

[MML]

Hi, Kareliz, Ally and Curls!

Thanks for your support!

Each day I am so HAPPY and amazed that I am able, with the help of my HP, to be relieved of my food obsessions insanity!

Reading the OA literature is revelatory and I've felt some sadness reading it, but it is giving me a new vocabulary and is also "naming" a part of my life that has been unexamined and hidden for so long.

Peace!

[Allison LHF]

Wow! I'm so so proud of you for taking that first step! I can't imagine saying those words, especially not to others. Maybe if I could say it out loud to MYSELF first...(Can I be in OA by proxy? :sarcasm ) Anyway, congrats again and keep us posted on your progress.

:bounce Allison :bounce

[LizE]

YAY!!!!!

Great job!! Congrats and keep us posted!

LizE

[MML]

I'm back from vacation and did really well sticking to my three meals a day -- good choices, not eating alone, eating until full -- until the next to the last day at my Mother's house.

She had baked a pound cake for hubbie and me and I had declined it through the week. She kept making comments about the cake she "baked just for me that I wouldn't touch". I would just smile at her and thank her for making it and say that my husband loved it. I felt really strong and in control.

Finally, I decided to have one piece for dessert to make her happy (my insane rationalization).

I ignored the fact that I am powerless over food. I thought I could handle it. After supper I stood in the kitchen and ate all the crumbs on the cake plate and then finished the cake in "secret" when my mother had gone to bed. I came home and binged on chocolate chip cookies.

Today is a new day. I accept that I am powerless over food and my life is unmanageable. I believe that God can restore me to sanity.

I'm glad to be back from vacation and visiting the :bowl. Thank you for your support - I need it!

:peace :love :clover