Mill Creek OA 100 Pounder Speaker Meeting

First 10 minutes of recording failure. recording starts @ 9.40 into pitch. First few notes about it It all started with a new years resolution to loose weight.  In November I joined OA. Richard Burton is my higher Power. My anger issue got much better. I did not want to make amends. A half gallon of ice cream did never got its lid put back. I began to consider what others a might be going through....

Before; I was extremely shy, no social skills, compete introvert. My grandmother made three bowls of M&Ms for me and my sisters. I always compared who had the most until I found the 1 lb bag. I really discovered amazing food in college and there was no monitor. I studied and 'mastered' Bulimia. Food and alcohol were my paired vices.  I joined the beverage program but still purged to handle my food...

OA - Topped out at 285  I have tried to use exercise to outrun my compulsion. I tried fasting. diet pills, protein shakes, all failws quickly. In 2014 I came back for the third time and embraced OA Recovery adjacent. I finally embraced the concept of red light foods and held to it... for 4 years. A workshop called 'Sober Eating' really buttoned up my current recovery, I have a sponsor, I have serv...

Tech issue this week, No promo details. A great speaker and has spoken several times in the past year.

I am not a 100 pounder so I would compare (I'm not that bad)  in the beginning.  I used food to anesthetize myself and it worked in my youth. I was known in my family as a sneak eater. Somewhere I knew it wasn't all about the food but I still thought it was about the food. I was a sneak eater even when I didn't have to. Holidays were a time when I didn't have to sneak. But I still did. Relationshi...

Grew up in a small town. Married and unmarried at 19. Married once more in 2014 until present. I called OA and the conversation just calmed me. She is still my sponsor today. I cleaned my pantry of any foods I would be sad about loosing.  I learned alternative ways of handling my emotions rather than binging. I lost 80 lbs.got pregnant and lost that weight. Maintenance has been a challenge. The tr...

Skinny until 15. My family was full of chaos. Food was my friend for home and school. I was always hustling to get money to buy what I wanted. I was a very unskilled thief. I was over 260- was prescribed diet pills and made it down to 190. Food was only one of the bad choices I made which cost me my marriage.  In mid 30's I got almost to 300. First introduced to How and it worked for a while as a...

When moving, I would clean the refrigerator with my mouth. They asked me to read at my first meting. What I read did not resonate with me. I was told to 30 in 30 and being an over achiever I complied but still didn't really get the program. and it didn't last long. I finally asked God for help to get home with eating and it worked. My eyes, ears and heart began to open. I did the steps in a week a...

I began my journey onto my food addiction at 18 years old I always felt different and like I didn't fit in.  Food was my friend. My pattern was binge and purge I left home at 20. I married my 'project' to change my behavior. Each of my pregnent was a major weight gain followed by dramatic  weight loss. Started OA in '88 but abstinence didn't start until I did treatment in '90 Multiple long term re...

Free from binging and purging from Nov 1986 thanks to God I did all the nasty things overeaters do. No normal suggestions helped at all. When I am talking, I am not learning. I have fallen in love with my Higher Power. and I believe he returns the favor. My God was big enough to help me with the IRS. Not all my dramas have happy endings but I do get through them and stay abstinent.

i had to take the first step before I joined OA. I knew I had a problem. I have a daily reprieve. I wake up and the work starts. Te 12 steps are about Ego reduction. Self help books, workshops or pictures did not help. I went to my first meeting,saw God on the wall and walked out. I did not come back for a year. I had amazing weight loss in the first 9 months. and realized I was on my way out with...

I was pretty normal as a child, athletic 6'4".  Eating did not kick until my thirties going up to 360. I had a family and kids, seemingly normal, however on my way home for a family dinner I would stop at multiple drive-thrus to pre-binge before going home to eat another dinner with dessert.  I could hide the nags but not the smell. A diagnosis of diabetes and a need to  inject insulin sent me to...

I put bows in my hair to keep focus on my head and not my body. I did well with pay and weigh programs, therapies, diets, everyone worked once. I wanted to have my jaw wired shut. I got up over 300 lbs after grey sheet helped me loose 40  lbs. I did not understand the concept of alcoholic foods. I bounced in and out of multiple 12 steps programs searching for the perfect program, the perfect spons...

3 Factions OA. Strict, Loose and in between. They all can work. The trick is to find what works for you. I am a compulsive eater and compulsive dieter. I think I have lost over 2000 lbs I quickly realized OA was much more than a weight loss program. My current weight loss that I have maintained for 14 years is over 100 lbs and I am not looking for it. Even after attaining my target weight I was no...

Growing up we did not have a lot of food so we ate all we could when we could. Stayed thin through college and marriage until my first child. Then it was on. I was tricked to going to my first meeting unwilling to acknowledge my issue initially. Embraced the program slowly. Did not get a sponsor until after a year. I managed a food plan because of my health issues not because has surrendered. Toda...

Even with multiple physical and mental issues it was in these rooms I finally felt safe. I couldn't deal with my diagnoses and it took it toll bringing me into 3 programs. I would rather be an addict than have a mental issues. I had to write a letter about why I hated OA. Pretty revealing. Eventually I stopped blaming everyone else and accepted responsibility for my action. thus started my real re...

In program almost 40 years. Both parents into their own addictions. I could manage my food, it wasn't that bad . . . until it was that bad. 7-11 Was my downfall as i promised to start over every day. I was leading a double life as psychotherapist and food addict. In the beginning  (first 10 years) I made the group my Higher Power. so I left the program because I wanted to have a normal life. Back...

I started early 3 or less. There were no boundaries and no safety. I just wanted to be loved but food  gave me that feeling. I was a 'chubby' kid and felt shamed even at the doctor's office. I was 6 with my  first diet. It became a way of life proving my unworthyness. Food became the cause and the solution of my shame. My dad dies when I was 16. He was the only one who i felt loved me unconditiona...

Started with sweetened and condensed milk and our family was a member of the 'clean plate club' When I left home at 17 it was Game on!  I was not connected to my body and always shocked when I saw a reflection. When my husband left I stopped drinking but food took over.  At 60 I went to my AA sponsor about my weight and they suggested OA  in 2012 (287 lbs) I got a food plan from a nutritionist.  I...

Feb 11, 2020  398 lbs  I was still not ready to 'surrender' I fell and needed fire department to get me up.  Then I was ready. I have maintained a 185 lb weight loss. Spirituality - Humbug. It was about the weight in the beginning. I worked the steps and learned about me. One step at a time. I ended with a very strict food plan but could do it for one day . . .at a time. I made it back to the top...

Condensing 43 years into a 20 minute talk I was eating anything I could as long as I can remember. Rather than a defect my eating was a defense. I took massive amount of diets pills. and YoYoed on the heavy side of the Yo. I married and got pregnant. the doctor said my my weight could harm the child. I did not care. Gave birth at 300. In 1981, at 329, I planned to eat until died . 6 Months later I...

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I was an obese baby.  First diet at 5 years old. In my family compulsive overeating was our life. There was never any leftover candy in our house  Fat was  not a problem, it was who we were. I learned to diet and was successful, for a minute. As I was loosing weight I would think about what I was going to eat at the end of the diet. 1st time in OA I lost weight, broke abstinence and put all weight...

I came in to OA in 1975 at 25 years old, 340 Lbs. and have been in 50 years. I lost jobs because of my weight. They could do it and told me so. Started with grey sheet food program. You guys spoke honesty and I did not know that language.  I had a huge issue with the spiritual components of the program. I was sure we didn't meditate in La Hambra, CA. Today I sponsor, do service, travel, and have a...

Originally in OA in '88.  I had a problem with lookalikes. Sugar free type alternatives to red light foods. At events I would click the disposable cameras so I was always behind the camera, never in front, I experienced the progressive nature of the disease. 5 year  first relapse, 3 years second, then 1 year Embracing Step one perfectly is required to eliminate the first compulsive bite I wore scr...