For Today: July 21st

Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.

Hippocrates

Go to meetings, Read the Big Book. Get a sponsor.  Go to any lengths.

All that? When will I have time for my life?

Make time. Compulsive overeating is a killing disease.

But I’m not that bad.

No, not yet.  But this illness is progressive; it gets worse, never better.  Abstinence is a new life, not in theory but in practice.  It means following suggestions, listening to someone who knows more than I do about living abstinently.  It means reading: “Rarely have we seen a person fail who has thoroughly followed our path.”

If I want abstinence, and a better life, I have come to the right place.

For Today:  I have taken the first step.  God help me to stay on this new path toward physical, mental and spiritual recovery.

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By the time I came to OA, I was plum OUT of excuses. Yes, it WAS that bad. Yes, I WAS that extreme. Yes, I was brought to my knees yet AGAIN from the killing disease that tormented me for 40 some years. 

I had to accept the fact that MY way was NOT working. My crazy diet schemes & attempts to control the disease were bringing me up empty handed time & time again.

OA was my port in the storm. Yes, I was just 'that bad' and ready to accept a whole new LIFE. I had to change from the inside out and the steps would help me do that.

I didn't ask myself "when will I have time for my life?" because the life I had wasn't the life I SHOULD have had. I was involved in all the wrong things...in essence, I was WASTING my life.  So I allowed OA to take OVER my life & recreate it. Make it better. OA helped me develop a REAL life; one with purpose & service & peace of mind.

I used to think I didn't have a life because I was fat.  Turned out, I was fat because I didn't have a life.

OA changed all that, thank God, and I will keep my program #1 on my list because without it, I am back to living a life controlled by a disease.