August 17

Diseases desperate grown
By desperate appliances are relieved
Or not at all.

William Shakespeare

It has been said that newcomers must spend as much time and energy getting and staying abstinent as they did in compulsive overeating.  “Half measures availed us nothing.”
   My mind tries to tell me that I am not that sick.  I am most certainly not insane, and I do manage my own life.  My only problem is I want to eat most of the time.  If I could just find a really good diet and lose weight, I’d be OK.
   Yet, somewhere in this rationalizing is a gut feeling that I need to be here, that there is a way out, that this program will work for me.

For today:  I want what I see in OA.  I pray for willingness to follow each step of the program and to believe that the food and the weight will be taken care of in the process.