"I started reading the "Big Book" at home, and in every instance where it used the word "alcohol," I crossed it out and put in the word "food." As I read this book, my life began to unfold in front of me. I cried and I laughed, because, for the first time, I understood so much. That night, while reading the "Big Book," I saw and heard what I'd denied about myself all my life. I could hardly wait for the next OA meeting, so I could ask the people there if they, too, grasped what this book said. I was on fire with excitement. At last I was real, and I was alive. That was 150 pounds ago, and my weight has not wavered more than 10 pounds in the almost ten years since." -Overeaters Anonymous, Second Edition, Pg. 69
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A Compulsive Overeater
5/21/2013 02:15:18 pm
I didn't really grasp the big book until it was read to me word for word, page by page. When I read it myself without hearing another COE's experience, it just didn't sink in. Now that I sponsor, I make every attempt to meet a sponsee and read the Big Book together, stopping and sharing the stories of how I was, what changed and how I am today. To share what relapse has been like - why I too was just like that idiot who kept jaywalking and being run over. To share what it is like to feel freedom from the bondage and also what it takes to keep that freedom. For me the Big Book should be shared with another COE...I must surrender to the fact that I need others to remember my disease. Your comment will be posted after it is approved.
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