My Assessment of Overeaters Anonymous

Plain and simple this program is not for me. The whole concept of the program is essentially that you are a compulsive overeater and there's nothing you can do about it. That doesn't quite sit right with me, I don't really believe that there's nothing you can do about it. I have not, however, done any sort of 12 step program before, so possibly if I had this make more sense to me. Take a program like weight watchers for example. Their philosophy is that you have this problem but there's no need for it to affect your life negatively. This means that if you want to have that piece of cake then you can, you just have to know that it will affect the rest of your day as far as how much more you can eat. I like the idea of changing my lifestyle rather than accepting it to be unchangeable. I do believe that compulsive overeating is a serious problem, I don't know if I would say disease like overeaters anonymous said it was. That being said I believe that with the right amount of willpower strength and determination you can do anything. I believe that it's an illnesses of the mind, like depression and anxiety etc. you wouldn't tell someone with depression "well you're screwed you're gonna have depression no matter what you do, so you need to stop doing all the things that make you sad". That's what they told me last night in overeaters anonymous. One lady spoke about how she loves sweets, but she cannot have them anymore because that's her trouble food. I don't want to deprive myself of things that make me happy, food is one of them. I need to change my lifestyle so I know what healthy moderation is. I need to retrain my mind to know that taking a smaller piece of cake isn't going to kill me, and that taking that smaller piece a cake versus the huge one is going to be better for my body. Why should I avoid anything with sugar in it for the rest of my life, I think that's improbable. Maybe I'm not ready for the first step, and who knows I could have some huge epiphany later down the road. But right now I don't really believe their philosophy. I'm not going to tell myself I don't have control. I made myself this way and I myself can turn it around, I can accept that I'm a compulsive overeater but I won't accept that there's nothing I can do about it. Logging out!

Ms.Jess