IT'S A NEW PAGE!
HELLO!! AND WELCOME!!!
It's our new page. How about a story page? A story page where we can all share our stories of abstinence, of courage, encouragement, experience, strength and hope. Think of it as your share with rest of our intergroup. This is everyone's page. Answer this: what is one thing that you can teach us all? If you can answer that question then send your work to the webmaster via email.
HELLO!! AND WELCOME!!!
It's our new page. How about a story page? A story page where we can all share our stories of abstinence, of courage, encouragement, experience, strength and hope. Think of it as your share with rest of our intergroup. This is everyone's page. Answer this: what is one thing that you can teach us all? If you can answer that question then send your work to the webmaster via email.
Laura's New Life:
I am going to get the ball rolling for the shares page.
Hi! My name is Laura A. or Mama A. I am a recovering compulsive overeater. I am living proof that the 12 Steps and 12 Traditions work for us overeaters. We, as addicts having a problem with food, have learned to get at the nitty gritty of the very bottom of ourselves. We have learned to figure out our problems with food, what triggers us to eat what we eat, how we eat, and when we eat. For us, we have to get down to ingredients, ingredient combinations, tastes, textures, temperatures, and method of preparation it is that triggers us to the point where we cannot stop.
I remember well the early evening when it was as if I woke up all of the sudden. I was sitting in my comfy chair in my glorified tin can of a trailer. I had on my lap a box of crackers. It was almost instantaneous. I stopped. My hand was halfway inside of the box. In my mouth were crackers. I stopped. I stopped. I stopped and looked at my hand halfway out of the box and noticed my mouth full of crackers. I was full. I was overly full. I was stuffed to the gills. I was not hungry. So, I had to ask myself, "what am I doing?" I'm not hungry, so why am I stuffing myself with crackers?" Okay.
It was time to take a look at myself, a long hard introspection. I had a problem. I felt as if I came to the end of myself. I felt as if my life had become unmanageable and that I was insane. At this time, I had a boyfriend who was familiar with this phenomenon.
What did I do? I also had a friend from church who familiar with this problem. She knew about the overeaters version of AA. So what did I do next? I checked out Overeaters Anonymous on the web. I ordered some literature. I got a copy of the AA Big Book from my boyfriend which I read every word of the program. Within those pages, I read of scenarios and schemes that I knew about. The people that were talking of themselves and their problems with drinking. Those folks were me but only with food. Food containing fat, sugar, and white flour that is baked and of a certain texture.
I have been successfully abstinent for 9 years now using the 12 Steps, 12 Traditions, and 12 Concepts developed by the Alcoholics Anonymous. I am not saying I haven't slipped, I have, but I have gotten back and abstinent again. The program works. Going to meetings work. Keep going back to meetings until you believe it and believe in yourself. Keep going back to let others help you love you again. Until next time ........
I am going to get the ball rolling for the shares page.
Hi! My name is Laura A. or Mama A. I am a recovering compulsive overeater. I am living proof that the 12 Steps and 12 Traditions work for us overeaters. We, as addicts having a problem with food, have learned to get at the nitty gritty of the very bottom of ourselves. We have learned to figure out our problems with food, what triggers us to eat what we eat, how we eat, and when we eat. For us, we have to get down to ingredients, ingredient combinations, tastes, textures, temperatures, and method of preparation it is that triggers us to the point where we cannot stop.
I remember well the early evening when it was as if I woke up all of the sudden. I was sitting in my comfy chair in my glorified tin can of a trailer. I had on my lap a box of crackers. It was almost instantaneous. I stopped. My hand was halfway inside of the box. In my mouth were crackers. I stopped. I stopped. I stopped and looked at my hand halfway out of the box and noticed my mouth full of crackers. I was full. I was overly full. I was stuffed to the gills. I was not hungry. So, I had to ask myself, "what am I doing?" I'm not hungry, so why am I stuffing myself with crackers?" Okay.
It was time to take a look at myself, a long hard introspection. I had a problem. I felt as if I came to the end of myself. I felt as if my life had become unmanageable and that I was insane. At this time, I had a boyfriend who was familiar with this phenomenon.
What did I do? I also had a friend from church who familiar with this problem. She knew about the overeaters version of AA. So what did I do next? I checked out Overeaters Anonymous on the web. I ordered some literature. I got a copy of the AA Big Book from my boyfriend which I read every word of the program. Within those pages, I read of scenarios and schemes that I knew about. The people that were talking of themselves and their problems with drinking. Those folks were me but only with food. Food containing fat, sugar, and white flour that is baked and of a certain texture.
I have been successfully abstinent for 9 years now using the 12 Steps, 12 Traditions, and 12 Concepts developed by the Alcoholics Anonymous. I am not saying I haven't slipped, I have, but I have gotten back and abstinent again. The program works. Going to meetings work. Keep going back to meetings until you believe it and believe in yourself. Keep going back to let others help you love you again. Until next time ........
Something to learn from me - - -
Dear Readers, take it from me. Fits of anger are no reason to break abstinence, especially if and when you are angry with someone. Eating out of such circumstances DOES NOT punish them! It only punishes you!! Take it from me. I have had to learn this over a period of time. It does not work. It only hurts you more and more and more each and every time you do so.
I finally learned getting spitting mad at my spouse, does nothing to him. A normal thought that occurs in such moment, for a moment is all it is, is that you think your anger is against - you think of the anger as a dagger - it should hit its target. The truth? Are you ready for this truth? The truth is that having anger against someone is truly you giving them your power over you. So. Stop it! You can stop that right now!! No one can really MAKE you mad at them. You, my friend, you give them that power. Power over you!
Guess what? This very same principle, this concept, also works for and is true of your compulsive overeating. No one made you eat.
Okay. So, now what? Now comes the time for work. Working the program. Go back to the thought of this person that you are mad at. Why are mad? What triggered it? Let's look at really what is going on here. What is really happening, getting down to brass tacks? What was the very first thought that popped into your head and what did you think? Now, part of this work, at least for me, is I think back and ask myself, "How am I feeling? What sensations is my body feeling? Did I tense up all over or only different parts? Were my shoulders, back, abdomen tense? Did I clench my fists? Now how did you get over this moment?
You get the gist. What do you do? It's your turn now! Drop me a line at [email protected].
Dear Readers, take it from me. Fits of anger are no reason to break abstinence, especially if and when you are angry with someone. Eating out of such circumstances DOES NOT punish them! It only punishes you!! Take it from me. I have had to learn this over a period of time. It does not work. It only hurts you more and more and more each and every time you do so.
I finally learned getting spitting mad at my spouse, does nothing to him. A normal thought that occurs in such moment, for a moment is all it is, is that you think your anger is against - you think of the anger as a dagger - it should hit its target. The truth? Are you ready for this truth? The truth is that having anger against someone is truly you giving them your power over you. So. Stop it! You can stop that right now!! No one can really MAKE you mad at them. You, my friend, you give them that power. Power over you!
Guess what? This very same principle, this concept, also works for and is true of your compulsive overeating. No one made you eat.
Okay. So, now what? Now comes the time for work. Working the program. Go back to the thought of this person that you are mad at. Why are mad? What triggered it? Let's look at really what is going on here. What is really happening, getting down to brass tacks? What was the very first thought that popped into your head and what did you think? Now, part of this work, at least for me, is I think back and ask myself, "How am I feeling? What sensations is my body feeling? Did I tense up all over or only different parts? Were my shoulders, back, abdomen tense? Did I clench my fists? Now how did you get over this moment?
You get the gist. What do you do? It's your turn now! Drop me a line at [email protected].
HI!!! IT'S ME AGAIN! Who is me? I'm your fearless Lake Country Intergroup of Overeaters Anonymous Webmaster, of course. Come on everyone out there - EVERYONE. I mean every single person out there. I know for a fact that I am not the only budding writer or silently suffering shy quiet retiring person who feels a need to unburden themselves. I know because I like to write. Now, I am not saying I am good at it. But I am trying.
I love going to meetings and listening to everybody's share because I get to have the privilege of hearing the story of their addiction and how their life is going. Listening, quietly and politely, to other people's struggles is service. Yes, being vulnerable and nervous, and opening up about what you are going through presently is hard but it is worth it because it, too, is another way to serve others. Serving others in what ever way you can and performing needed service is important for your's and others' abstinence. That is why we have meetings. Because we have a common bond with our struggles with compulsive overeating, body image issues, binge eating, bulimia, and anorexia, and more - - all of these are all problems surrounding one thing ~ FOOD ~ at least when you sit and think about it.
SERVICE. Service is important and when you throw a lot of time and effort in it it keeps you so busy that you do not even think of food of any kind let alone actually pick some up and consume it.
SERViCE. When we SERVE, we please our Higher Power. Or, rather, for everyone who knows me knows that I call my Higher Power by the name of My/Our Heavenly Father. He also can go by Jesus and Holy Spirit. Sometimes I even use the moniker of GOD for him. BUT! But, that is Who I believe in, believe on, and believe for.
That's it for me today. I will keep writing and sharing. That reminds me, I probably need to write a little tiny something for the Lake Country Intergroup December newsletter.
NOW, IT'S YOUR TURN! Since you are reading this, why not just write up something quick and send it to me. my email address is in the footer. Thank you! Mama A., out.
I love going to meetings and listening to everybody's share because I get to have the privilege of hearing the story of their addiction and how their life is going. Listening, quietly and politely, to other people's struggles is service. Yes, being vulnerable and nervous, and opening up about what you are going through presently is hard but it is worth it because it, too, is another way to serve others. Serving others in what ever way you can and performing needed service is important for your's and others' abstinence. That is why we have meetings. Because we have a common bond with our struggles with compulsive overeating, body image issues, binge eating, bulimia, and anorexia, and more - - all of these are all problems surrounding one thing ~ FOOD ~ at least when you sit and think about it.
SERVICE. Service is important and when you throw a lot of time and effort in it it keeps you so busy that you do not even think of food of any kind let alone actually pick some up and consume it.
SERViCE. When we SERVE, we please our Higher Power. Or, rather, for everyone who knows me knows that I call my Higher Power by the name of My/Our Heavenly Father. He also can go by Jesus and Holy Spirit. Sometimes I even use the moniker of GOD for him. BUT! But, that is Who I believe in, believe on, and believe for.
That's it for me today. I will keep writing and sharing. That reminds me, I probably need to write a little tiny something for the Lake Country Intergroup December newsletter.
NOW, IT'S YOUR TURN! Since you are reading this, why not just write up something quick and send it to me. my email address is in the footer. Thank you! Mama A., out.