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Post by DJgrrl on Oct 10, 2005 11:00:23 GMT -5
Here I am in Step 1 mode. I am ready to tackle my sickness with food. I already have a head start having been a grateful member of another 12 Step program for some time. Like that program. I am gratefull to EOR for being here to help me. I need th strength and courage to go to face to face meetings. I had always thought that if my life got better so would my compulsive eating. Well not so. I'm feeling better than I ever have in my life and it scares the crap out of me. My fear of success. I admit that I am powerless over food and that my life has become unmanageable.
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Post by Lin on Oct 10, 2005 11:13:41 GMT -5
I applaud you DJ for being READY! That is such an important step in tackling the problem!
I am a leader at a program called Weight Watchers. I lost weight on that program. But as you mentioned..it was very helpful to ahve a background in 12 step programs. I could use the best of both programs and intermingle them and find success.
That day I went to my first meeting i had hit my bottom. I was sick and tired of being the size I was and was totally ready to do whatever it took to get rid of those extra pounds. I had several "last straw" incidents and was READY.
Now as a leader I see people come and go within a couple of weeks...and i see members stay until they ahve lost 25, 50, 100 lbs...whatever is needed. It is that simple..that if they are not READY, they wont do the work. If they ARE ready, nothing will stand in their way of success.
Weightloss works like recovery in many ways. ODAT is one of those. If i overeat on our Thanksgiving next month, I will get back on my program the very next day. I wont tell myself I am a failure because of a "slip". ODAT it works.
Good luck to you~! If i can help in any way, let me know. (recipes, encouragements, etc>)
{_{{DJ}}} LIN
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Post by caressa on Oct 10, 2005 14:05:01 GMT -5
Thank you for sharing DJ. I had to share my story yesterday morning and I found myself admitting to my food addiction and how the 12 Steps work for all of my diseases.
It was nice to be affirmed by having someone else coming up afterwards and thanking me for sharing. She said, "She was telling herself that she was sober 20 years and yet in reality she had put on 100 lbs." There is sober and there is sobriety.
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Post by majestyjo on Oct 8, 2020 1:02:50 GMT -5
Like the "I'm ready" as I seemed to have had several bottoms with food. My problem has been water retention, when I get rid of the fluid u can look at myself with a more honest critical eye. I have always been very hard on myself. My service sponsor in AA said, "if you are as hard in newcomers as you are on yourself, to will drive everyone bank out the doors of the fellowship.
I noted that Caresses said diseases. I have only one disease, that of addiction. That addiction can take many forms, and is always trying to take me back to where I came from.
Just for today I choose not to use.. I choose not to use people, places, and things. One day at a time, show me how to live clean.
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