What is my solution?

• Admitting that I no longer know what to do to fix myself. Diets no longer work. Exercise isn’t working or I don’t do it.
• Hitting a brick wall – that seems to be myself.
• Loss of pride enough to ask for help.
• Finding this fellowship where there are people just like me.
• Going to meetings.
• Getting a sponsor.
• Doing what my sponsor says, which includes adopting a food plan for today, making a plan of action for all kinds of circumstances in which I will find myself, like a football party for the Super Bowl, changing my behavior, which might include staying away from certain people, places, and things, working the Steps, whatever that means, going to OA workshops and retreats, putting myself and my needs first.
• Put down the food.
• I didn’t like my old life; the program of recovery means I will have a new life with new habits and new ways of thinking. I may even have new friends.
• I will spend time getting to know myself like I never have done before. “Ignorance is developed when we don’t know what we don’t know.” Joe McQ. from AA
• Do whatever is requested or required.
• Go to any lengths.
• Talk to other OAs constantly to learn who I am.
• Get rid of my secrets. In here, they are the same secrets everyone else has so they really aren’t so secret after all.
• Choose to do the next right thing.
• White-knuckle it and grit my teeth at the same time.
• Let go of suffering.
• Grab on to life and do it scared.
• Alternatively, I could just keep doing what I’ve always done and stick with the following:
• Desperation.
• Hopelessness.
• Misery.
• Pain.
• Disgust.
• Repulsion.
• Shame.
• Guilt.
• Surfeit.
• Abandonment.