Scott T. (Relapse & Recovery Meeting, Apr 2019)
Scott, member since 2001, identifies as a compulsive overeater, relapser, and century person. Scott’s share from the Wednesday evening Relapse & Recovery meeting includes the following themes: 12 Steps in 2 minutes • the math & the science • recent milestones • 12-Step acronyms & slogans (see below) • gifts of relapse • ridding self of childhood Higher Power • G.O.D. = goals/outcomes/desires • god-blockers held me back from reaching my potential • process of gaining clarity • the negative side of early physical “recovery”
Acronyms:
FEAR: Forget Everything And Run
FEAR: Face Everything And Recover
DENIAL: Didn’t Even Notice I Am Lying
SPONSOR: Sober Person On Next Step Of Recovery
NUTS: Not Using The Steps
EGO: Easing God Out
EGO: Edging God Out
-ISM: I, Self, Me
-ISM: I Sponsored Myself
-ISM: Incredibly Short Memory
The 3 P’s: Pause, Pray, Proceed
GUIDANCE: God, U & I Dance
Slogans:
I stuffed my face before I faced my stuff.
OA is not for people who need it; it’s for people who want it.
When you don’t people please, people aren’t pleased.
The only time SUCCESS comes before WORK is in the dictionary.
When the food calls, tell it “wrong number.”
Meeting-makers make it.
There is a difference between “I can’t” and “I won’t.”
Stick with the winners. Win with the stickers.
This is Overeaters Anonymous, not Overeaters Analysis.
Food wasn’t the problem; it was the solution.
When you need to lose 100 pounds and you’ve lost 90 of it, you’re halfway there.
A newcomer can do any Step that begins with a 1 (1, 10, 11, 12).
Know — K.N.O.W. — your binge foods and triggers. No — N.O. — binge foods and triggers.
You ARE grateful; you’re just not satisfied.
I no longer have to look in the mirror and say, “Your diet’s working.” Instead, I say, “Your life’s working.”
I retroactively came to believe.
Be god or be-lieve in god.
There’s never a good time to pick up; there’s only an excuse.
The disease is like a used car salesman who can read your mind.
My recovery has been perfectly correlated to how much I’m willing to depend on other people; what that required is I find dependable people.
I’m an addict who craves the highs and the lows.
Hurt people hurt people.
Resentment is about the fear I experienced in the past. Anger is about the fear I experience in the present. Anxiety is about the fear I will experience in the future.
A meeting where anything goes eventually becomes a meeting where nobody goes.
The 12 Steps prevent us from suicide. The 12 Traditions prevent us from homicide. And the 12 Concepts prevent us from genocide.
I had to be a compulsive overeater to find god.
Note: A century person is an individual who has lost or needs to lose 100 pounds or more.
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