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10/31/2026

"I have had a spiritual awakening as THE result of the 12 Steps. Prior to program, I lived an unconscious life and was not at all aware of "the great reality deep down within us" (AA big book). My inner Higher Power was covered with negative emotions and excess food. As I followed a plan of eating--to stay conscious of what was going INTO my mouth and use the Steps to stay conscious of what was coming OUT of my mouth--I found my personal Higher Power. I call that power. Goodness, Health and Love. My consciousness of God consciousness, of what is good in myself, in others, and in the world. When I make time for daily reflection (Step 11), I experience that Higher Power as a loving voice that guides me to do the next right thing. I have tapped an unsuspected inner resource which I now identify with my own conception of a Power Greater than myself!"
Overeaters Anonymous (third edition), Page 51

10/30/2026

" I recently took my fifth Step with my sponsor. Driving home I felt an elated sense of freedom and joy. I felt cleaner and lighter. It was as if a weight had been lifted off my body. I shared out loud with my sponsor things I had never admitted to another person.
Writing about some of my past (in the 4th Step) was painful and I visited seasons of my life I'd not talked about or acknowledged for years . But the fifth Step was anything but painful. It was LIBERATING! Sharing with God and my sponsor the the exact nature of my wrongs was simply an exercise in HONESTY, something my disease says will bring consequences. The opposite is true!
The second blessing I received that day was a sense of HOPE: I don't have to fear my past and can overcome fears about the future!
Today I have 6 months of abstinence... and renewed sense of HOPE!.
--Taste of Lifeline, page 35

10/29/2026

" I have been a newcomer to OA THREE times over the past 20 years. The final time was 8 months ago after finally hitting bottom! Hopeless. I had no fight left in me. I SURRENDERED! I knew I needed help and God and OA were all that were left.
Having "tried" The program before without success, I knew I had to do things in a different way. This time I was WILLING to make an honest effort to work the Steps and the Tools.
The most pressing tool I needed was a sponsor. When I asked him if he would sponsor me, he said, "Eat three meals a day, nothing in between. Get a copy of the Big Book read to page 60 and call me.". Somehow I knew that was the road to freedom for me. That was 8 months ago and I am so grateful that OA is big enough for all sorts of sponsor/sponsee relationships.

Today I am a living, breathing, walking miracle of this program. My weight has gone from 230 lb to 180 lb and my triglycerides went from 374 to 129. The relationship with my daughter has gone from a roller coaster ride with me causing the seasick feeling to one with a level-headed sane mother who acts on life rather than reacts."
--Taste of Lifeline, page 102

10/28/2026

" The next part of my process was to become willing to SURRENDER a "God Bite", (a bite-sized portion of food that I left on my plate.) The God-bite forced me to become conscious of my Higher Power as I ate. I practiced surrendering a God- bite at EACH meal and I started praying for the WILLINGNESS to follow a food plan, not of my creation. That willingness came nearly 18 months after my return to OA. As a result, I went through something akin to a detox and by the grace of God, the mental obsession with food was lifted! I reached a normal weight having lost more than 220 lb in almost 2 years.
Despite the fact that I now look like a "normie" I have to remind myself, everyday, that I will ALWAYS be addicted to food!"
-- Overeaters Anonymous (3rd edition) page 71

10/27/2026

" I was desperate to be able to eat as much as I wanted without getting fat! I would fantasize about switching bodies with a thin person who worked out. I would take her body, binge uncontrollably, and then give it back a few months later. She would lose all the weight I had gained and give my body back to me so I could binge again. OR I fantasized that there was a magic pill I could take that would subtract the calories I ate,so the more I binged the less I weighed.
By the time I crawled into OA, I had already taken my First Step. I had tried everything and wanted to die! Life with excess food was intolerable; Life without it was unthinkable. Food had become my MASTER!
Believing in a Power Greater than myself that could restore me to sanity presented a real challenge. I believed in God but he was disgusted with my gluttony in a world where people were starving. OA friends suggested to me that I develop a NEW concept of God, One who could restore me to sanity around food. I was SO DESPERATE, I was WILLING to give it a try.
When I came through the doors of OA, I couldn't stop binging for 17 hours; I couldn't stop thinking about food for 17 minutes. By the grace of OA, I have not compulsively overeaten for over 17 years. Never once have I asked this "imagined" Higher Power for help that it has not come."
-- Overeaters Anonymous, 3td Edition pg 78 (excerpts)

10/27/2026

Exciting news for OA in Yuma, Az:

We are back to face-to-face meetings at the Yuma Center for Spiritual living Saturday mornings at 9:30 Yuma time, (781 S 2nd Ave at 8th Street, if you're in Yuma OR join by Zoom: Meeting ID: 890 5946 0135, no passcode).
Face to face for our Thursday meetings as well as zoom, location is Central Church of Christ, 651 W 28th St, Yuma every Thursday at noon, Yuma time. Zoom remains with log on:

8389 427 2100, no password.
Hope to see you all there ❤️

10/27/2026

Before I go to sleep, again snuggled in bed, I thank my Higher Power for the day's blessings and talk to Him about how the day went. Next I answer the following questions: Did I pray throughout my day?Was I abstinent? Was I as honest as I could be?? Was I kind, gentle and loving toward all? Am I harboring any resentments? Do I owe an apology or need to make amends? What fears did I experience and how did I react to them? What did I do right?
When I talk, my Higher Power listens. When I tell Him about my problems He takes care of them in His time, in His way. When I ask Him to show His will for me, He always does and my life is richer, fuller and more joyous. Thank you, Higher Power!
--Taste of Lifeline, page 58

10/23/2026

" Using the 12 Steps and the tools and then leaving the results to a Higher Power WORKS!
It sounds trite but it's SO simple and SO true. I have learned this TRUTH for myself through struggling with maintaining my abstinence for the past 3 years. One recent night I shared with another member that, "The food is still working for me. I'm just not desperate enough."

I hung up the phone and binged!

When my sponsor asked me what I needed to maintain my abstinence, I answered that I needed MORE contact with her, MORE contact with OA folks, and MORE service. So I've made afternoon phone calls every day for 3 weeks now, committing to myself that I will have no food after dinner and that if I decide to eat something I will call someone before doing so."
-- A New Beginning, pages 67,68 (excerpts)

10/19/2026

"For seven months I worked the Steps, getting all the way up to Step six. What I failed to do was build any sort of fellowship or support around myself. I SAT with my problems instead of talking about them, which led me to a one-day BINGE. The next day, my sponsor asked me what my program was lacking, and I knew the answer: FELLOWSHIP!
That was in November 2005 and I have been abstinent ever since. That one-day binge scared me to DEATH (!!) because, in those 7 months, I had already begun to experience the happiness, SERENITY, and PEACE others talked about in the rooms. I did not want to give it up that easily so I started staying afterward at meetings, making three calls a day, and letting others get to know me.
I also started working the Steps over. Step one showed me that I am NOT a NORMAL eater and that, when I try to be, my life is completely unmanageable!
Step 2 made me teachable. Step 3 meant making a COMMITMENT! I committed to asking for help with life and not trying to do it alone anymore!"

-- Overeaters Anonymous, 3rd edition, pg 63

10/18/2026

" I went to my first OA meeting in February 1985 because I was 5 ft 2 and 1/2 in tall and weighed 285 lb. I knew it wouldn't take much to get to 300 pounds... and I was TERRIFIED!

I remember listening to those who shared at that first meeting and thinking that I didn't belong there. People were talking about feelings and I was there for a diet. By meeting's end, I'd already decided that OA was not for me. Then someone came over to me and told me not to judge the program by this one meeting and to keep coming back. GOD BLESS that person!

Week after week I kept coming back. I didn't comprehend the Steps, didn't use the tools, didn't understand abstinence and didn't believe I was a compulsive overeater-- but I DID keep coming back. Slowly I began sharing.

After one year it occurred to me to ask someone to sponsor me. I was READY to work my program. I lost over 135 lb! How? I wrote, read, meditated, did service, and went to meetings!"
--A New Beginning, page 123

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