OA is patterned after Alcoholics Anonymous, and in the language of 12-step programs, I am a "high bottom" addict: My life had not become unmanageable. Weight was never an issue in my career or in my marriage. I fit easily into airplane seats, and I came to OA wishing to lose just 20 pounds, not 100 or more. Yet after finishing a normal helping of pasta, I have another. Left alone with enough for ten people, I'd eat it all. A trigger goes off in my head or in my body or in my blood sugar-I don't know where it goes off, but I am rendered completely, utterly powerless.Īt those times, I am a junkie, a spasm of need and desire, wholly focused on ingesting that bowl of pasta (or doughnuts or ice cream). The OA program doesn't promote any particular diet, but wheat and sugar so pervasively spark compulsive eating that many members make abstinence from them the turning point in overcoming their addiction.įood has always been my drug of choice. I eat to numb myself, to deaden the feelings of.is it loneliness? Grief? Anger? Could those circuits have blown out by age 5? That's how old I was when I began stealing loose change to buy candy. Eating became my one-beat response to every feeling. "The reasons are unimportant," says the OA literature. This is hard for my psychologically oriented mind to accept. Over and over again, their conclusion is that only reliance on God, or our "higher power," as we individually understand that concept, "can restore us to sanity." But OA is filled with people who have hit a wall trying to reason out their eating. After spiraling out of control for two years after leaving, I've gotten it together, and I feel much better about my own choices while losing weight and getting healthy.I had entered the program determined to remain open to the spiritual language of 12-step work. I enjoy so many healthy foods that it works for me. Good things that came from it- I never eat things I don't like anymore, regardless of how healthy it is. I guess I just don't like being told what to do. I finally did break my abstinence after like 60 days because my stomach was upset so I ate chicken bouillon after being explicitly told not to. It was difficult for me to get through the prescribed amounts of veggies every meal, and I mostly hate salad lettuce anyway, so it just sucked.
Some people find comfort and success in it. 3 meetings a week, and 3 calls a day to the phone list not including your sponsor. Also, absolutely no wheat, flour, or sugar of any kind. You must know all foods you will be eating that day, and if you deviate, you are "breaking your abstinence". It is absolutely a twelve step program and supremely strict. I joined FAA for a few months several years ago. Have fun and don't forget your side of ranch and Diet Coke!
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