KelleyS_2026_01_25.mp3
Mill Creek OA 100 Pounder Speaker Meeting
I was always tall/big and felt fat. I always felt different. 1st Diet in 8th grade. thus started the yo-yo of thin and not. Everyone diet worked once. with diminishing results when repeating it. I got to 125 lbs overweight while binging AND purging. I have been in OA for 43 years and never left, but do not have continuous abstinence. I did several OA variations which also worked initially. Finally I heard the message of putting down the food to work the steps to get a relationship with God. Food first, then steps. then recovery. After 30 years I finally got a year. I thought 'I got...
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CarrieN_2026_01_18.mp3
Mill Creek OA 100 Pounder Speaker Meeting
Top Weight 305. Snacks I picked up at 7-11 were my friends. Coming into OA this time I got a sponsor and got direction which I followed. After a week I noticed a silence in my mind. My psyche is tuned to crave a certain type of food and MORE of it. Reading the Big Book of AA I discovered an explanation of why I was different that other people. I have an understanding and a relationship the a higher power. I was never hungry when I was in the food. Now I do get hungry. and I don't panic I have a group of recovering friends. we support each other and it makes a difference in...
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RichB_2026_01_11
Mill Creek OA 100 Pounder Speaker Meeting
Started as obese kid. At 11 I was in a UCLA program for obese kids. Diagnosed but no solution. 235 @ 13 yrs old My roommate binge buddy went with me to to OA when I was 19, never been on date and just scared. After 16 years I had a single fork of a dessert. I was up 100 Lbs in 6 months. I gained weight on the Weight Watcher's snack bars. No repercussions (medical, emotional or physical) stopped me from overeating and getting close to death. My current food plan has to reflect the damage I have done to my body. I surrendered and have succeeded rather that white knuckling it and failing. I...
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CK_2026_01_04
Mill Creek OA 100 Pounder Speaker Meeting
I had to be the grownup during my childhood in a very unsafe environment. I had the illusion I needed to be in control of everything.. I felt I was in control when I had my food. I ran my life using the CK program with disastrous results. After 3 major losses the food was not enough.. Oct 24 I cried out for help. And meant it. Gave up the CK program and started using the OA Program. Gave up illusion of controls and had way better results I do a daily 10th step. Not perfect yet. I began to realize I do have affect on others and can choose to do no harm. 2025 was a year of my understanding and...
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GenieB_2025_12_28.mp3
Mill Creek OA 100 Pounder Speaker Meeting
Maintaining 120 lb weight loss, 36 years abstinent Born in rural PA. Dad a coal miner. Grew up doing farm work. I was always fat. Gained and lost over 700 lbs prior to QA, down 30 up 50, down 40 up 70 on and on. I had a lucrative job allowing me to seek the answer to my compulsive eating. I could change my food, for a while. size 4 to 22. I was the same miserable woman with my nose in everyone's business regardless of my weight. I could manage my weight (for a while) but never my life. I ended up in OA and it was incredibly rigid. I got a sponsor and did what they said, did the steps,...
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DonnaA_2025_12_21.mp3
Mill Creek OA 100 Pounder Speaker Meeting
In OA since 1987 I got a sponsor right away. I was happy a higher power worked for them but it couldn't for me. I have lots or sponsors and each gave me something I still carry. My first inventory was through OA HOW. all 170 questions. I Since then I have done the steps lots of times and lots of different ways. 2017 I was sure I had it down and did not need the program so I stopped listening for about a year and a half. I found I have to find at what really works for ME and then do that, no matter what! In HOW I was sponsoring in 30 days but you could only teach what you...
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Noel_2025_12_14.mp3
Mill Creek OA 100 Pounder Speaker Meeting
Grew up where food was love. At 8-9 I was eating noticbley more than others, My being active helped it stay 'manageable' In my teens I thought 'they were out to get me' and rejected any suggestion of moderation. I ended in OA directed from another 12 step program. I got a sponsor but I knew better than him. I started doing it my way with the expected outcome. When I came back with more issues I didn't trust anyone, did it my way to 300 lbs. The shame kept me away. 10 years on my own, Back to OA I was so done. Got a sponsor who is still my sponsor today. I embraced the steps...
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LynnS_2025_12_07.mp3
Mill Creek OA 100 Pounder Speaker Meeting
I didn't fit in the world or in my clothes How can I get it, hide it, eat it, get more? Even at 11 I had stretch marks I lost my first 100 in weight watchers became a poster child for the program but my life was still lacking and finally the yop yo began for the next 20 years. At rock bottom my higher power slipped me into OA and I was relieved of the obsession. I stopped fighting everyone and everything. I had a couple of periods of relapse I had to white knuckle it - - like a dry drunk.
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ToniaG_2025_11_30.mp3
Mill Creek OA 100 Pounder Speaker Meeting
I was in denial of my compulsive eater all my life. My dad committed suicide wen I was 8 and blamed God and everyone else. Today I have freedom from the bondage of food. I would measure every part of my body and it was depressing. I have relapsed many times but never left the program. The steps are the foundation of my program. Making amends was super important (details in talk_)
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GeneK_2-25_11_23.mp3
Mill Creek OA 100 Pounder Speaker Meeting
I do service when I am asked. My mom thought her value was based on her cooking and our enjoying it. I was a body builder and could eat alot - always wanted more than my share. I had a black hole in me I was trying to fill with food. I can into OA and wanted to get by. My men's group has been my foundation for 12 years. I never experienced the honesty I heard there. I surrendered to the 'fact' I was a regular compulsive eater and did what was required to handle it (recover) and started using the tools of OA as suggested. A gratitude list helps me get back on tack.
info_outlineStarted as obese kid. At 11 I was in a UCLA program for obese kids. Diagnosed but no solution. 235 @ 13 yrs old
My roommate binge buddy went with me to to OA when I was 19, never been on date and just scared.
After 16 years I had a single fork of a dessert. I was up 100 Lbs in 6 months.
I gained weight on the Weight Watcher's snack bars.
No repercussions (medical, emotional or physical) stopped me from overeating and getting close to death.
My current food plan has to reflect the damage I have done to my body.
I surrendered and have succeeded rather that white knuckling it and failing.
I have to ask 'What would a loving person do?' and then work to act that way.