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[draginja]

     Four months ago I was constantly binging and feeling terrible about it and yet I had no power to do anything to stop it.  I had a spiritual experience of coming to believe my higher power could restore mre to sanity with my food  and after that I was able to stick to a food plan.  I don't step on the scales every day.  I only weight once a week, but because I stick to my food plan I know that I am eating what is healthy for my body.  I don't feel the need to express spiritual sickness by the food that I eat.  I don't starve myself, but I eat exactly what is on my food plan.  I don't count calories and I am not obsessed with exercise (though I do try to exercise 4 or 5 times a week for about a half hour), though I have lost a large amount of weight.  I don't feel as though the goal is to lose weight however, but to abstain from compulsion in my eating behavior and to eat the food that is healthy for my body and soul.

I don't know where I am going to end up in terms of my weight.  For now I leave that to my higher power.  I know that in time all things will be revealed to me.  For now I am happy in the knowledge that I am free at last.  Free of compulsive overeating, free from dieting and purging and starving myself.  I trust that my higher power will show me exactly what I should be eating and when.

If we have what you want, I invite you to join us.  There are meetings in most areas and if there are not meetings where you are, there are phone and online meetings.  We are here to give you support.  Welcome to Overeaters Anonymous.  Welcome home.