My Biography

Then, horrified by what we were doing to ourselves with food, we became obsessed with diets. We spent hundreds of dollars on weight-loss schemes, we bought all sorts of appetite-control drugs, we joined diet clubs and spas, we had ourselves hypnotized and analyzed, we had major surgery on our digestive systems, we had our ears stapled or our jaws wired shut. All of this we did willingly, hoping we could someday “have our cake and eat it too.” ~ The Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions of Overeaters Anonymous (Kindle Locations 149-150).

Funny, how I felt all alone,
terminally unique, a freak,
devoid of willpower, abject failure.
Then in desperation I stumbled in,
found the rooms of recovery,
heard others tell my story, owning it...
and suddenly knew I was of a group,
not one-of-a-kind, and with my army behind
I could take on the world.