Principle Assets I received a short-notice invitation to go to Nashville for the SOAR8 (Region Eight) Recovery Convention so I packed my bag, my food, and my water and headed straight into a very full weekend of recovery. The theme of the assembly was “Tune into the Principles.” As a newcomer to OA, I was at first not familiar with the Principles … Read More
Pleased to Believe I just attended my first and second ever OA meetings. In 2013, I lost 80 pounds (36 kg) in seven months using powdered food, veggies, and prescribed medicines under a bariatric doctor’s care. That diet was not sustainable, and now I’ve gained all the weight back, plus 10 pounds (5 kg) more. I knew all along that I could not … Read More
Losses and Gains I’ve lost 40 pounds (18 kg) in a little over a year. I’ve made it; I weigh slightly less than my goal weight. But I have these funny feelings in my stomach: delight, shock, wry amusement, and a teeny bit of disappointment. I am definitely delighted to wear a bikini and cry crocodile tears that none of my clothes fit. They … Read More
Fortune Telling Who would have thought, when I entered my first OA meeting six months ago, that my life was going to change in every conceivable way? After almost forty years of yo-yo diets and spending most of my adult life on diet pills, I was about to discover my weight problem had nothing to do with willpower. What an eye-opener that … Read More