So, I am leading my first Overeaters Anonymous retreat. I don’t recall if I wrote about this before. I was approached to do this service back in October of last year. I was hesitant. I had never been to a retreat much less lead one. The retreat chairs trusted me, said I had what they [...]

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I didn’t start this week with the intention to become caffeine free, it’s just happened that way. I’m on vacation. Monday, I woke around 5:30 and puttered around the house until 8:30 when the strong desire to sleep returned, so I slept, until 11:30. Nice. Then, I just puttered some more until early evening when [...]

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Not the best night’s sleep and up again (not by choice) at 5am. I watched a little TV. I love the “How it works” kinda shows. I got to watch them make fried plantain chips. How cool is that? Had breakfast about 5:50a and hit the supermarket before 7a. After that, off to the local [...]

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I’m in Albany, capital of the great state of New York, attending, as a visitor, the Overeaters Anonymous Region 6 Assembly. This event happens each spring and each fall to discuss region business, participate in various committees and a workshop. I’ve been attending this almost since I got abstinent. I love coming here. More hugs [...]

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Sometimes I wonder if it’s a gift to feel emotions.  I know it’s a gift to abstain from eating compulsively, but these feelings, these I would like to be able to do without. I’ve been going through some things which are not appropriate to outline here, which sometimes made me feel as though someone had [...]

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This is a bit old, and in direct contradiction of what you might expect coming off the bacon story, but it seems, prepared foods are getting healthier by reducing the amount of salt they contain: Getting companies on board is the most important part: according to the NYC Health Department, 80 percent of the salt consumers eat [...]

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This is one of those things I suppose I already knew. My first time in OA I ate a lot of meat and, since my food plan allowed 4 ounces of pretty much any non-cheese protein, once in a while, I piled on 4 ounces of Bacon. Very crispy, very snappy, bacon. My logic was, [...]

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Nothing especially important happened today, except that on Monday evening, I was too tired to write. Therefore, here’s some history from Wikipedia, so don’t believe any of it: Events 1111 – Henry V is crowned Holy Roman Emperor. 1204 – Constantinople falls to the Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade, temporarily ending the Byzantine Empire. 1250 – The Seventh Crusade is [...]

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I was shopping for some staples when I came across a piece of ginger much larger than I needed.  For what I hope is an obvious reason, I had to get it. I got another smaller piece too. I haven’ t had the heart to use this yet. I stocked up on a number of items in [...]

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Earlier this evening I heard on our local NPR station that the periodic short fiction competition deadline was this evening at 11:59 local time. Until that exact moment, it never occurred to me to enter. After that exact moment, I did laundry, read e-mail, finished tomorrow’s post, ate dinner and wrote 582 words (maximum 600) [...]

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