Chile Thanks!
LynnCS Thanks!
dlee That's great to hear!
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I went to OA on Friday night. It was a bit different, because the 2 people that normally lead the meetings weren't there. So they had one of the guys that's been attending for over a year lead. We had a new person there, he mentioned that he and his GF were following Fuhrman. I'm not overly familiar with the Furhman, but I thought it was a little more plant based that, just eat a huge salad before SAD meals. I did explain about the McDougall plan to him after the meeting.
I'm just not understanding how this OA thing is supposed to work. I was rereading the steps tonight, I'll go ahead and list them for those that haven't seen them:
1. We admitted we were powerless over food — that our lives had become unmanageable.
2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5. Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.
9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it.
11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these Steps, we tried to carry this message to compulsive overeaters and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
I guess my question is, at which step should the compulsive eating stop? If you were struggling I mean. Step 7? 11? 12? Step 12 to me sounds more like a follow up, something to keep working on. Kinda like the Star McDougallers that continue to use the forums.
I still don't have a sponsor. What I do have though is 24 days of abstinence! Which from what I hear in the meetings is a lot better than many of the people who have been going longer.
Happy Sunday,
May the Force be with you!