Mill Creek OA 100 Pounder Speaker Meeting

The weight swings should have been a clue.

Picked a lock to get the food, weighed on a meat scale, up and down for 40 years, and more until OA brought him back God, as he understans him.

Compulsive overeating trumps, everything, booze, drugs, excersizer AND wil power untill OA was the ace.

She learned in OA she had accepted 4 big lies. 1, I will start on Monday 2. I will just have a little bit from the bag/package. 3. It doesn't show so no one will know. 4. I can do it myself.

Loosing the weight was not enouigh to make the perfect life. A 200 pound weight loss, although remarkable, could not fix her. It took the steps, honetsty, doing the work,calls and a solid sponser she was willing to listen to in order to achive real recovery.

It took Mike long time to "Get it". For years he dabbled in OA Waving the banner of sobriety convincing himself they were different. He tells his story with humor and emotion and comapssion everyone can identify with.

Food became a safe place during an uncertian, unsafe and challenging childhood. Eventually it stopped working. OA is now offering a great life.

Growing up with no life skills Victor turned to food. He found personal and emotional accptance in OAand learned tools for living for the first time.

OA nd the members will always be there for you.

Don't quit before the miracle(s)

Relapse may be part of alot of our stories. Tim recounts his on again off again relationship with OA. There is hope for everyone

Long term success may be based on always going to meetings no matter what. It worked for Cynthia.

Delightful share about maintaining 200lb loss!

Maintaining 150lb weight loss, happy joyous and free!

Kari shares about recovery, relapse, gaining weight eating abstinent foods, and maintaining 150 pound weight loss while living the active peaceful life she always dreamed.

Holly shares how she lost 140 pounds and gained her life.

Dorrie shares her spirituality in recovery.

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12 principals

Mickey shares his experience, strength and hope.

In this very open and honest share, Ken expresses the value of, as he calls it, his "tribe", the people within OA. Starting out as a child of two holocaust survivors and being a gay man, Ken has had a lot to confront in this world. As a leader in a popular "diet" program, he says anyone go on a diet but it was the people of OA that taught him how to care about himself and each other.

Ellie steps up as a backup speaker for a great pitch on transitioning from a voice that spoke negatively to her about her body to a higher power that has taken care of her, continues to take care of her and allows her to have the positive life she has today.

Deanna talks about how she removed the laws of the food from her image and tapped into the power of a positive self image.

Hear how Holly overcame the control of her mother, husband and food through the support of these rooms and the OA program.

Over 30 years abstinent, Alice tells us how this program is not just about food, its what has made her a better wife, daughter and mother.

Hear how Elaine talks about why she still needed OA after she thought she had gamed the system with bariatric surgery.

Katie reveals how E+R=O help you avoid your next binge.