Anonymous (Century Meeting, July 2018)

Anonymous, member since 2001, identifies as a compulsive
overeater, century person, and relapser. Anonymous share from the
Tuesday evening Century Meeting includes the following themes:
completing graduate school • new grown-up job • OA didn't give me
my life back; it gave me a life period • addiction: sacrificing
the future for immediate gratification • 140-150-lbs weight-loss
• 18 medical & psychiatric conditions cured by good nutrition
alone • on 8 medications when entering OA at age 28 • gifts of
abstinence • new edition of OA 12/12 • identifying in OA • 8
years of abstinence after 7 years in relapse • 12 Steps of OA in
a nutshell • healthy selfishness • life between the ages of 4-13
• Bizarro World 12 Steps (Steps -1 thru -12) • using Tools of
Recovery ("Step 0") as a newcomer • Tools helping with food;
Steps helping with everything else • physical recovery (black
& white) • emotional recovery (colorless) • spiritual
recovery (grey) • 1 act of perfection (food) leading to thousands
of forms of grey • new girlfriend: zero catastrophic thinking
& very little people-pleasing A century person is an
individual who has lost or needs to lose 100 pounds or more.