"Hi, my name is Dawn and I'm a compulsive overeater."
I struggled to get those words out of my mouth at my first OA meeting. So much so, that one of the other members told me I didn't have to say it if I wasn't one. But I am a compulsive overeater and the sickness has worsened over the last few years. I needed to say it out loud. I have learned from the OA literature I have been reading that the compulsion to overeat is progressive. I am proof of that fact.
Can you tell by the expression on my face in the first picture that I was not thrilled about putting spandex on having my picture taken. These are far from flattering pictures! But I felt like it needed to be done, kind of like another way of admitting to myself that I have a problem.
I struggled to get those words out of my mouth at my first OA meeting. So much so, that one of the other members told me I didn't have to say it if I wasn't one. But I am a compulsive overeater and the sickness has worsened over the last few years. I needed to say it out loud. I have learned from the OA literature I have been reading that the compulsion to overeat is progressive. I am proof of that fact.
Can you tell by the expression on my face in the first picture that I was not thrilled about putting spandex on having my picture taken. These are far from flattering pictures! But I felt like it needed to be done, kind of like another way of admitting to myself that I have a problem.