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Mill Creek OA 100 Pounder Speaker Meeting

Speakers who have lost 100 pounds tell their stories.

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LaurieY_2022_08_14

Mill Creek OA 100 Pounder Speaker Meeting ·

2022/08/15

I was an outsider in my own family. I ate a lot at meals and more is secret. I discovered I judged others to feel better about myself. Sometimes I had hard time sleeping so I found meeting for 24 hours a day. I got recovery when I followed the program suggestions. I can find an abstinent meal at any restaurant. Today my life it full of 'Thank You God' moments.

31:20

KimberlyC_2022_08_07

Mill Creek OA 100 Pounder Speaker Meeting ·

2022/08/08

My mom threw lots of money at my weight. I came into OA for the diet. Today I will never diet again. At my high weight I was a physical and emotional wreck. First I wrote everything I ate, then three meals a day, incremental additions became my recovery. I thought my Higher Power was my servant. Eventually I reversed it. My weight loss was a by-product of focusing on my recovery. I no longer steal my children's food. Today rather than fixing everyone and everything My Higher Power helps me seek to

29:47

Sparky_2022_07_31

Mill Creek OA 100 Pounder Speaker Meeting ·

2022/08/01

Three legged program - Physical, Emotional, and spiritual. Today I am willing to wear red pants. I went to church and had a relationship with God, Not one I liked. Growing up I turned to food and as long as I didn't eat the last one, avoided trouble . My disease manifested as a single path to isolation. Today I am surrounded by loving friends and I believe them.

25:09

MichaelM_2022_07_24

Mill Creek OA 100 Pounder Speaker Meeting ·

2022/07/25

22 years in program. I am 5' 6" and was a shade under 600 lbs. I returned after a 6 week relapse with a renewed commitment leading into a spiritual change. . but not right away. Not only do I have a toolbox of recovery, I have learned how to use the tools and DO. I know my problems, OA offers me the solutions. I work the 12 steps AND the 12 traditions.

26:03

RevaG_2022_07_17

Mill Creek OA 100 Pounder Speaker Meeting ·

2022/07/18

My first psychic change was in 1973 - Before OA. I can still be willful, vindictive and have learned to make amends. There are other weight loss programs. This is a spiritual program. I eat my entire food plan and no more. Today I have a conscious and continuous contact with my higher power. My family relationships are less than perfect. So it goes.

28:56

LoniG_2022_07_10

Mill Creek OA 100 Pounder Speaker Meeting ·

2022/07/11

Abstaining member of OA for more than 36 years. and a recovered liar, sneak, cheat and thief. I was 340 LBS, miserable, my job in jeopardy and I could not stop. I bought the book so I could find the secret. OA didn't teach me how to eat. It taught me how to stop. . . for one day. Little by little I made different choices and avoided certain food. OA was working in my life. Once I was powerless over my addiction I was able to accept help from a higher power. I get to practice not eating compulsively

29:51

CindiW_2022_07_03

Mill Creek OA 100 Pounder Speaker Meeting ·

2022/07/04

Don't have any memory before food. I was over 400 lbs by 14 years old. This disease stole so much of my life. I have always felt bodily and mentally different from my fellows. Fear of what can happen to me only sent me deeper into the food. Today, working the steps, being free from my food obsession, my life is a constant miracle. I have lived in the same place long enough to have them raise my rent, What a gift.

31:00

RexA_2022_06_26

Mill Creek OA 100 Pounder Speaker Meeting ·

2022/06/27

I was stealing and lying about food as a young kid. Supplements, diets, all worked for a short time once. Got the 15 questions of OA in the military. Did a treatment center, Spiritual retreat and got a sponsor. Ended up more sober than abstinent. Left military, college on GI Bill - up over 300 lbs. Got back into OA, 4 years of abstinence but minimal recovery. led to relapse. Once I got back I got enrolled into Service at the Intergroup level and more but stilled bounced up and down. Today I have a

29:37

KaraM_2022_06_19

Mill Creek OA 100 Pounder Speaker Meeting ·

2022/06/20

Everything hopeful started tomorrow, Monday or 'on the first' I was my own worst critic. Lies I told myself about me. - Fat people are lazy, unlovable, ugly, have no will power, hopeless. Compulsive overeating is a lonely pass-time. I always wanted to be thin. I was not willing to do what I needed to do. 2008 I went back to OA through a convention. I surrendered with a prayer 'God, I can't do this alone'. I got a sponsor that weekend. I got abstinent 4 days before Halloween. If you are alive you

27:15

AmandaM_2022_06_12

Mill Creek OA 100 Pounder Speaker Meeting ·

2022/06/13

Came in at 16 but not a smooth trajectory. Food was my solution to escape from my reality. I would do anything to avoid my body being seen. I was banned from the Soup Plantation. I ended up growing up in these rooms which was very uncomfortable. Today . Abstinence is my only shot at a big, great life. I choose feelings over food. I have intimate, honest relationships with other people. I can get through anything as long as I don't try to do it alone.

22:47

Bridgette H_2022_06_05

Mill Creek OA 100 Pounder Speaker Meeting ·

2022/06/06

Needed a Dr.s note for my first go at Weight Watchers. I started as a Catholic and learned how to pray . . . for me. I didn't worship God, I worshipped food. I became super woman - alone. Finally a therapist got me to consider I was a compulsive over eater and got to OA. So I wanted to learn the food plan. The moment I actually said I was willing to go to any length, I had a spiritual experience. and my journey to recovery finally began for real.

27:23

BobL_2022_05_29

Mill Creek OA 100 Pounder Speaker Meeting ·

2022/05/30

I was over AND under-eater. I noticed odd behavior as a child picking my friends by their snacks. I only thought about what the food did for me, not what it was doing to me. I was different Bobs with different people as any good people pleaser. No clue who I really was. After a health scare I learned how to eat but could not do it. I heard of OA but it took 3 years to hit my bottom. In program I dieted successfully until one fateful binge night brought the reality of my disease and my need for a

18:03

ChrisS_2022_05_22

Mill Creek OA 100 Pounder Speaker Meeting ·

2022/05/23

Entered high school at 350, left over 500. First OA meeting was not my people, That was not MY problem. I lost 200 lbs by restricting and self will. That led to my relapse Upon reentry into OA I still struggled with the steps. Finally had a spiritual experience when I committed to going to my Father's wife's funeral. I still harbor the thought "I will never be satisfied' Today it is not as loud and I have tools to work towards an alternative.

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MaryleeD_2022_05_15

Mill Creek OA 100 Pounder Speaker Meeting ·

2022/05/16

* * There are some gaps in the first few minutes of the recording. * * My first time in I became Miss OA without doing any of the work. My resentments with my father prevented from embracing a higher power. So I left During my relapse I had Gastric Bypass AND started putting on weight. Back to OA. This time with a Higher Power. Meetings (4 a week), Big Book, I have a sponsor, do the steps and I do service. That is my program today. Every day I am the best person I can be. Physically, spiritually,

20:24

SueS_2022_05_08

Mill Creek OA 100 Pounder Speaker Meeting ·

2022/05/09

* * Missing 4 minutes of recording @ 3 minute mark. * * When I lost my abstinence I gained the weight. No amount of food could fill the hole in the center of my being.

28:09

MarkM_2022_05_01

Mill Creek OA 100 Pounder Speaker Meeting ·

2022/05/02

My biographical timeline is marked by food. I was a secret eater until I got found out. Pay and weigh worked dramatically for the weight but not for the 'me' I left the dynamics I grew up with when I went to college, But I took me with me. Back to secrets. College went from 175 to 0ver 300. Now to work. 3 Continuous fears. Not getting what I want, Loosing what I have, or Being found out. As my fears got bigger, my world got smaller and I was 525 lbs. It was a year after I asked God for help before

28:30

JackieB_2022_04_24

Mill Creek OA 100 Pounder Speaker Meeting ·

2022/04/25

Early on my life I learned how to keep secrets, and how to hate. Morbid obesity arrived in my 20s. While over 300 Lbs I was neurotic about what my son ate. I did not diet. Any weight adjustments were from changes in my activity. When I joined OA I resisted being told what to do. I lost 125 Lbs with very little recovery. Rich honest emotions are a gift of recovery.

27:41

PaulD_2022_04_10

Mill Creek OA 100 Pounder Speaker Meeting ·

2022/04/11

Paul D from Seattle Annual suggestion to diet and exercise got me started, for a minute. At one time I was taken to the hospital - FOR OVEREATING 4 Cs crisis, clarity, colliding opportunities, commitment to a spiritual solution, A multitude of health issues should have given me a clue about my problem with food. I discovered Buddhism was the religion of moderation - Poof I'm a Buddhist. I have studied OA, read ALL the literature, completed the steps and got involved in service. I have sent a

26:01

KenT_2022_04_03

Mill Creek OA 100 Pounder Speaker Meeting ·

2022/04/04

6 Months before I came into the program due to my health I considered suicide. Prior to OA I had no idea of how my life had become such a disaster. Oatmeal chicken chicken was not for me. My addictive foods became VERY clear to me. Established my recovery right out of the Big Book of AA. I have to understand it is not about lunch. It is about a fatal disease. Today I am a healthy member of OA and society trying to do my best and be of service. I favor sponsors with AA background and their that

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AndreaS_2022_03_27

Mill Creek OA 100 Pounder Speaker Meeting ·

2022/03/28

If I go back out I really will die due to my chronic health issues. A consistent food plan is my salvation. I share about my issues to let others know they are not alone. I have friends outside of OA and they are Real friends.

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