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Posted on April 19, 2016
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At times I suffer fear: Will I be successful at weight loss? Perhaps I have a diet mentality. During these times, I must remember the following:

“I” am not losing the weight.

  • Higher Power and Overeaters Anonymous are helping me lose the weight.
  • A healthy way of living is helping me lose the weight.
  • Cleaning up my side of the street is helping me lose the weight.
  • Trusting in a power greater than myself that I will not starve before the next meal is helping me lose the weight.
  • Being loving to myself, my family, and others is helping me lose the weight.
  • Getting to OA and AA meetings is helping me lose the weight.
  • Having an open mind and remaining teachable, honest, and willing to try someone else’s way is helping me lose the weight.
  • Calling another OA member when I suffer from “stinking thinking” is helping me lose the weight.

Since I’m not losing the weight and I’m getting so much help from other sources, then I will not have to keep the weight off. Doing the next right thing will keep the weight off, one day at a time.

We do not have to pressure ourselves to maintain success. It will just happen if we continue working a strong program. Abstinent with you for today!

— Edited and reprinted from The OA Steppingstone newsletter, Baltimore Area Intergroup, April 2005

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