Twelve is a Magic Number: an OA Blog of Recovery

Friday, January 11, 2013

You are Worth Your Health and Sanity!

exercise to be fit not skinny
Posted by G.K. at 1/11/2013 10:56:00 AM
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G.K.
Hi, I'm G.K. and I'm a compulsive overeater. Well I am many things, but "compulsive overeater" is the label that gets me here. This blog is a record of my spiritual, physical, and mental recovery from food addiction as I follow the 12 Step program of Overeaters Anonymous (OA). I have been attending O.A. meetings since late-Sept. 2012.
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Healing the Soul Means Diving Deep!

The Twelve Steps of Overeaters Anonymous

  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.

OA/Recovery Links

  • Overeaters Anonymous
  • Alcoholics Anonymous (fundamental resource for anyone in 12-Step recovery)
  • A 40-Something Fool's Journey (a great OA blog, the author has been abstinent since 2009 and from the perspective of an atheist. Thoughtful, honest and extensive writing!)
  • Whatever It Takes (Blog of an OA member in recovery, the blog that inspired me to begin my own)
  • Dear Bee: Letters to My Eating Disorder (an excellent eating disorder blog!)
  • Mr. Sponsorpants (An AA Sponsor Blog, and a great read for anyone in recovery)

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