Mill Creek OA 100 Pounder Speaker Meeting

Once she really 'heard' The Doctor's Opinion" she realized htere is No way but OA. Circumstances don't cause my syuffering. How I think about  my circumstances does.  

Born a compulsive overeater,  Every diet program worked for while OA always treated me better than I treated myself.

Sugar addict birth to death but today not active at it. Really good dieter... Every goal was a rebound. Lied to avoid invitations and maintain isolation. The beginning or recovery was when I learned to love myself no matter what I weighed.  

Childhood Dancing, Track, Drill kept is at bay.  Abstinance is fragile and often taken for granted. A sliver leads to a slive which leads to a slab which leads to a slob.  Now I go to meetings to speak and listen. It has to go both ways.

Mom loved sugar, Dad loved snacks, I loved sugary snacks. Today I do my part (Meetings, outreach calls,etc) God does his part (the results). It seems to be out working well. 

Finally arriving at OA with heart disease , and diabetes he follows direction and his whole life got better, 

My mom thouhgt freezing the Ding Dongs woudl stop me... She was wrong. Incredible membership benefits of OA include, friendships, support, help and a healthy life. I can pass as normal but you all know they truth. What a relief.

Food was an effective tool to avoid the pain of being picked on.   

Born a compulsive eater any recovery can be fleetinmg without a higher power to depend on. What can I say, it works.

Sugar in his baby food stopped his crying. Eventually he found every diet worked ... for a while.... Once. A journey from Food to allcohols, to food to OA to God.  

Some times we put on out best face. Tim put on his most honest sharing his recovery on a 'Bad' day. We could identify completely. 

Speed may not be the best solution for overeating. Googling AA for fat people does bring up OA. OA Led to a lifelong solution for compulsive overeating. as offering relationships which may be approaching friendship.

Franks always remembered what food did FOR him forgetting what it did TO him.  Meeting atendance, even with commitments, does not equal recovery.  But it helps

OA is the only hope for long term abstinence and health Fred had found. and he has tried it all. 

The weight swings should have been a clue. 

Picked a lock to get the food, weighed on a meat scale, up and down for 40 years, and more until OA brought him back God, as he understans him.

Compulsive overeating trumps, everything, booze, drugs, excersizer AND wil power untill OA was the ace.

She learned in OA she had accepted 4 big lies. 1, I will start on Monday 2. I will just have a little bit from the bag/package. 3. It doesn't show so no one will know. 4. I can do it myself.

Loosing the weight was not enouigh to make the perfect life. A 200 pound weight loss, although remarkable, could not fix her. It took the steps, honetsty, doing the work,calls and a solid sponser she was willing to listen to in order to achive real recovery.

It took Mike  long time to "Get it". For years he dabbled in OA Waving the banner of sobriety convincing himself they were different. He tells his story with humor and emotion and comapssion everyone can identify with. 

Food became a safe place during an uncertian, unsafe and challenging childhood. Eventually it stopped working. OA is now offering a great life. 

Growing up with no life skills Victor turned to food. He found personal and emotional accptance in OAand learned tools for living for the first time.