Anonymous, member since 2001, identifies as a compulsive overeater, century person, and relapser. Anonymous share from the Tuesday evening Century Meeting includes the following themes: completing graduate school • new grown-up job • OA didn't give me my life back; it gave me a life period • addiction: sacrificing the future for immediate gratification • 140-150-lbs weight-loss • 18 medical & psychiatric conditions cured by good nutrition alone • on 8 medications when entering OA at age 28 • gifts of abstinence • new edition of OA 12/12 • identifying in OA • 8 years of abstinence after 7 years in relapse • 12 Steps of OA in a nutshell • healthy selfishness • life between the ages of 4-13 • Bizarro World 12 Steps (Steps -1 thru -12) • using Tools of Recovery ("Step 0") as a newcomer • Tools helping with food; Steps helping with everything else • physical recovery (black & white) • emotional recovery (colorless) • spiritual recovery (grey) • 1 act of perfection (food) leading to thousands of forms of grey • new girlfriend: zero catastrophic thinking & very little people-pleasing A century person is an individual who has lost or needs to lose 100 pounds or more.
