I was in OA a number of years ago. To me it was a two-edged sword. While I thought the philosophy was right on the money, at least for me - being powerless over food, giving it over to your higher power(whatever you perceive that to be), basically following the 12 steps of AA, only geared to food instead of alcohol of course.
You pick a sponsor and you "give" your food for the day to him/her over the phone.(that can really help to keep you honest) You're given a series of questions to answer, one a day. The questions are designed to help put your overeating problems on display for you to look at and get ideas on how best to cope. I enjoyed the assignments, but my main difficulty was having to read them to my sponsor over the phone. I felt inhibited by that; I wasn't as honest as maybe I would have been otherwise. But it's hard for me to "share".
I'm not even sure if they still have those procedures today. It's worth checking them out to see if it suits you. Hope that helps a bit!
Gerry
ps. One other positive aspect is the support structure is really good
I was a member about 30 years ago. Like gerry said the concept was good. I didn't have to answer questions tho. I did have to call my sponser to give her my meals but only for the first 21 days. By then you are over your sugar cravings. They had 2 really good food plans to follow and one was sorta low-carb. BUT when they started telling me that I shouldn't hang out with people that had been my friends since childhood and are still friends to this day I quit. :-)Stephanie
No, but...a lot of community centers around the country have meetings for this group, and if they exist in your area chances are you could go to a "trial" meeting and see if you like it.
I was in OA a number of years ago. To me it was a two-edged sword. While I thought the philosophy was right on the money, at least for me - being powerless over food, giving it over to your higher power(whatever you perceive that to be), basically following the 12 steps of AA, only geared to food instead of alcohol of course.
You pick a sponsor and you "give" your food for the day to him/her over the phone.(that can really help to keep you honest) You're given a series of questions to answer, one a day. The questions are designed to help put your overeating problems on display for you to look at and get ideas on how best to cope. I enjoyed the assignments, but my main difficulty was having to read them to my sponsor over the phone. I felt inhibited by that; I wasn't as honest as maybe I would have been otherwise. But it's hard for me to "share".
I'm not even sure if they still have those procedures today. It's worth checking them out to see if it suits you. Hope that helps a bit!
Gerry
ps. One other positive aspect is the support structure is really good
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