MickeyB_2013_11_10
Mill Creek OA 100 Pounder Speaker Meeting · Paul Gadebusch
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Show Notes
You’ll enjoy Mickey B’s entertaining story of hope, stretching a lifetime of compulsive eating from his childhood in Ireland to his adulthood in America. Mickey shares a number of interesting things that occurred in his life that led from food insanity to his current abstinence and maintaining 60 pounds of weight loss:
What it was like to grow up in the middle of the Irish war
What terrible thing was communicated to him in boarding school, why it affected him for many years, and the unusual thing he did after it happened
His extreme patterns of eating, occasionally over 12,000 calories is sitting
What his emotional state was like after he binged
Other types of compulsive behavior he used to deal with binging
Crazy things he believed
How he “audited the class” at his first attempt in OA
What it took for him to rejoin OA
Something he had to learn that most people know how to do already
Why he jumped into a trash bin for “legitimate purposes”
The expression he used to hate that he uses all the time now