"Elbees" (lbs.)

First day of each month--weigh day. I gave away 3.5 lbs. in the past month making my total in OA HOW 42.5 lbs and 102.5 lbs. down from my highest weight. When I came to the rooms of OA HOW in Sept, 2009, I had one purpose: to lose weight. I am succeeding in the physical recovery one day at a time. What I have learned in the rooms is that my emotional and spiritual recovery are equally as important to my physical recovery and it is my spiritual recovery that keeps me abstinent.

We will see that our new attitude towards food has been given us without any thought or effort on our part. It just comes! That is the miracle of it. We are not fighting it, neither are we avoiding temptation. We feel as though we have been placed in a position of neutrality--safe and protected. We have not even sworn off, instead the problem has been removed. It does not exist for us. We are neither cocky nor are we afraid. That is our experience. That is how we react so long as we keep in fit spiritual condition. Big Book p. 85