I'm NOT in Overeaters' Anonymous - and I think that, for me, making that kind of commitment would be a self-destructive thing. Because I get really perverse about things if I think I'm NOT supposed to do them.
It's great if that works for some people, though - I'm not dissing it. But for me, I don't think that approach would be successful.
That said, I'm Low Carbing (basically doing Atkins) and I'm choosing to avoid sugar, flour and starchy vegetables. But I've not set myself some kind of 'You May Never Have These Things Again' commandment; it's more that I thought I'd see whether it HELPED to cut them out, and I can so definitely see that it helps me to control my weight AND, astonishingly, since I'm not eating them I'm also not CRAVING them. Which makes things easy - I don't feel that I'm denying myself things. I'm choosing to eat other things instead, because they make me feel better, and they help me lose weight.
I think it's pretty important to find an eating plan that you can enjoy, and feel satiated by. Because I don't know about you, but I want this to be IT. I've had enough of being fat. Being fat is just miserable as **** in a whole array of different ways. I would rather be healthy and attractive and flexible and strong and hot than have that cookie or that piece of cake; I CAN have the cookie or the piece of cake, if I decide that they are more important to me than losing weight. But so far, they really aren't.
Um.
Hope that you don't mind me replying? Since I'm not on the OA plan? Just followed the link from the main board, because the word choice caught my eye. It's a very different paradigm of weight control from the one I'm following, and I was intrigued. But I wish all of us success, using whatever method works best for each of us!
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