1. ODAT – One day at a time.
2. Recovery is a journey, not a destination.
3. Don’t eat no matter what!
4. There are no special days.
5. If nothing changes, nothing changes.
6. What others think of me is none of my business.
7. Identify don't Compare.
8. Practice an Attitude of Gratitude!
9. Bend your knees before you bend your elbow.
10. Formula for Failure: Try to please everyone.
11. We're responsible for the effort not the outcome.
12. In OA, we don't carry the compulsive eater, we carry the message.
13. I am perfectly imperfect.
14. Live and let live.
15. It’s not the extra string bean that counts; it’s the decision to take it.
16. Bloom where you are planted.
17. Be as passionate about the program as you were about the food.
18. The program steps and tools are suggested; we also suggest that you don’t jump from an airplane without a parachute.
19. I can't, God can, I think I'll let Him (Steps 1,2,3).
20. Circumstances do not MAKE us who we are, they REVEAL to us who we are.
21. Too blessed to be stressed!
22. Don't quit before the miracle happens!
23. Just another bozo on the bus.
24. We're all here because we're not all there.
25. Compulsive Overeating is an equal opportunity destroyer.
26. Have a great day, unless of course you have made other plans.
27. Perfectionism is the purest form of self-abuse.
28. The world record for abstinence? 24 hours!
29. Make use of the telephone therapy.
30. I don’t have an eating problem; I have a thinking problem!
31. YOU may be the only Big Book that someone reads today!
32. You can DO what you want, or you can GET what you want.
33. It's not what you're eating; it's what's eating you.
34. I have met wisdom and I have met kindness, and kindness is better.
35. Compared to me, I am spectacular.
36. The pen is mightier than the food.
37. Forgive easily - as if your life depends on it.
38. To keep it, you have to give it away.
39. Powerless does not mean helpless.
40. MY best thinking got me here.
41. While I'm sitting in a meeting, my disease is doing push-ups in the parking lot.
42. Trust God, clean house, help another compulsive eater.
43. Pray for those who hurt you; they need the prayers and we need the practice.
44. Resentment is like drinking poison and hoping the other person dies.
45. One bite too many, a thousand not enough.
46. Half measures availed us nothing.
47. Easy does it.
48. We will love you until you can love yourself.
49. OA is not something you join; it's something you live.
50. We can be positive that our overeating was negative.
51. Take the mess to your sponsor; take the message to the meeting.
52. Acceptance is vital. It is what it is.
53. In OA there is no final exam and no graduation.
54. Unity does not mean uniformity.
55. G.O.D. = Good Orderly Direction. E.G.O. = Edging God Out.
56. Take the cotton out of your ears and put it in your mouth.
57. OA adds years to your life and life to your years.
58. Trying to pray is praying.
59. Humility is acceptance of ourselves and others as equals, never above, never below.
60. Compulsive eating does not drown our problems, it irrigates them.
61. Keep your abstinence first to make it last.
62. If you turn it over and don't let go, you will be upside down.
63. Serenity is not freedom from the storm but peace amid the storm.
64. When you do all the talking you only learn what you already know.
65. The person with the most abstinence at a meeting is the one who got up earliest.
66. H.A.L.T. = Don't get too Hungry, Angry, Lonely or Tired. (or bored!)
67. Nothing pays off like restraint of tongue and pen.
68. When you try to control your eating, you’ve already lost control.
69. S L I P = Serenity Losing its Priority.
70. You don’t have to like it; you just have to DO it.
71. Many things can be preserved in sugar; dignity however, is not one of them.
72. Humility is not thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less.
73. We came to OA to save our butt, and found that our soul was attached.
74. Happiness is not getting what you want; it’s wanting what you get.
75. “And acceptance is the answer to ALL my problems today.”
76. Spiritual Awakening - a “personality change sufficient to bring about recovery”.
77. Nobody ever found recovery as a result of an intellectual awakening!
78. H O P E = Happy Our Program Exists.
79. Don’t take yourself too darn (read damn) seriously. (Rule 62)
80. Your Big Book is your sponsor too.
81. Some OAs are so successful they turn out to be almost as good as they once thought they were.
82. Abstinence delivers everything that food promised.
83. Being 'willing' to do something is not the same as 'wanting' to.
84. Every recovery from overeating began with one abstinent hour.
85. O.A. has a wrench to fit every nut that walks through the door.
86. How does one become an old-timer? Don't overeat and don't die.
87. The answer is in the steps and the directions are in the Big Book.
88. Anonymity is so important it’s half of our name!
89. I can do something for 24 hours that would appall me to do for a lifetime.
90. It is not the experience of today that drives people mad, it is remorse of yesterday and the dread of tomorrow.
91. Be nice to newcomers; one day they may be your sponsor.
92. Guilt is the gift that keeps on giving.
93. There is no magic in recovery, only miracles.
94. Try to be grateful and resentful at the same time, you can’t serve two masters.
95. If I have a problem and eat over it, I have two problems.
96. We don’t get run over by the train, we get hit by the engine (1st. bite).
97. Success means getting your ‘but’ out of the way.
98. Don’t work my program, or your program, work THE program.
99. A COE’s mind is a dangerous neighborhood; don’t go in there alone.
100. Cunning, baffling, powerful, and patient.
101. Where do I find abstinence? Twelve steps past any length.
102. How does it work? It works just fine.
103. Short version of the Serenity Prayer: Fix it or forget it.
104. N.U.T.S. = Not Using the Steps
105. Fake it till you make it.
106. Try it for 90 days, and if you don’t like it, we’ll gladly refund your misery.
107. Go to meetings when you want to, and go to meetings when you don’t want to.
108. We have a disease that tells us we don’t have a disease.
109. If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
110. I love you, God loves you, and there’s nothing you can do about it.
111. If God is your co-pilot, switch seats.
112. There are three kinds of business: my business, God’s business and none of my business.
113. If your head falls off, put it in a paper bag and take it to a meeting.
114. Every bite I ate got me here. Every bite I don’t eat keeps me here.
115. We came for the vanity and stayed for the sanity.
116. Keep your head where your feet are.
117. Expectations are premeditated resentments.
118. You must be present to win.
119. Glance at the past, but don’t stare at it.
120. Today is the tomorrow that I worried about yesterday.
121. Worrying is like praying for what you don’t want.
122. Even if I'm on the right track, if I don't move I'll get run over.
123. Feel, Deal and Heal - Feel it, Deal with it and Heal from it.
124. If you keep doin' what your doin', you'll keep gettin' what your gettin'.
125. BINGE – Because I’m Not Good Enough
126. How does one become an "old-timer"? Don't binge and don't die!
127. Sponsors: have one --- use one --- be one.
128. Do I want to be right or do I want to be happy?
129. Facing my stuff instead of stuffing my face.
130. I may not be who I want to be, but thank God I'm not who I used to be.
131. There’s a bottom below the bottom I know.
132. I do not recover today on yesterday’s actions.
133. Pray to catch the bus, and then run as fast as you can.
134. Higher Power, please watch what goes in my mouth today and what comes out of it.
135. Don’t try harder, trust harder.
136. "Figuring it out" is not a tool.
137. Veni, vidi, velcro ... I came, I saw, I stuck around.
138. Don’t tell God how big your storm is; tell the storm how big your God is!
139. If I make food an option, it will be the only option.
140. No binge is possible without the first bite!
141. First Things First – Abstinence above all else.
142. Fear: I might not get my way. Anger:  I am not getting my way.  Resentment:  I did not get my way.
143. Do the stuff to get the stuff.
144. Prayer is talking.  Meditation is listening.
145. If you don't have a Higher Power, you can borrow mine.
146. The Big Book does not say "Half measures availed us half".
147. I’m not a COE because I ate too much; I’m a COE because I could never eat enough.
148. Life sucks better when I’m abstinent.
149. I can’t control the wind, but I can reset my sails.
150. Trust God and buy broccoli!
151. If you never seem to solve an issue, it is not the real issue.
152. When you're going through Hell....Keep going
153. When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

Reliance, not defiance.
Utilize, don’t analyze.
Figuring it out is not a step.
Figuring it out is not a tool either!
When I am feeling badly I racked my brain to find the cause. Then I heard this slogan. I realized that I needed to take steps one, two and three again.
When I don't have the ability to accept the "downs" in life and can't see a way to change them, I can always change my attitude.
Just like bathing, abstinence doesn't last.
That's why we recommend doing it daily.
I realize that it takes repetition to change a bad habit into a good one, that I needed to have faith, forgive myself and all the people that used and abused me in the past and stick to the program one day at a time.

1. My weight is none of my business

2. Everything I let go of has claw marks in it.

3. "Why don't you let THEM be the judge of that?" (When I said that I don't like to call people because I'm afraid I'm bothering them.)

4. Call me if you need girl time.

5. There's a difference between being on a food plan and being abstinent. I can stay on my food plan and still be an *kitten*.
"Serenity begins when you stop expecting and start accepting."
"Should you encounter a problem along your way, change your direction but not your destination..."
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"Just because the monkey is off my back, it doesn't mean the circus has left town."

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"Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change." - Dr. Wayne Dyer

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“I get in touch with the still small voice within and let the flurry of my thoughts rest in a moment of silence. I find that the best choices have a sense of ‘rightness’ to them”
~ It is easier to acknowledge your horse's faults, once you have acknowledged your own.

~ Just cause trouble comes visiting doesn't mean you have to offer it a place to sit down.

~ What this country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.

~ You can't weigh the facts if you got the scales weighed down with your own opinions.

~ The wages of sin is death. Repent before payday!

~ Don't make a long story short just so you can tell another one.

~ If you are riding a high horse, there ain't no way to get down off it gracefully.

~ However one sided a man may be, he will have other sides if you look hard enough.

~ A clear conscience makes a soft pillow.

~ Forbidden fruit creates many jams.

~ To belittle is to be little.

~ Can't sleep? Try counting your blessings

~ Try Jesus. If you don't like Him, the devil will always
take you back.~ It is easier to acknowledge your horse's faults, once you have acknowledged your own.

~ Just cause trouble comes visiting doesn't mean you have to offer it a place to sit down.

~ What this country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.

~ You can't weigh the facts if you got the scales weighed down with your own opinions.

~ The wages of sin is death. Repent before payday!

~ Don't make a long story short just so you can tell another one.

~ If you are riding a high horse, there ain't no way to get down off it gracefully.

One of my favourite slogans is: If I focus on the weight, I'll lose the program; if I focus on the program, I'll lose the weight.
Yours in recovery,
David

~ However one sided a man may be, he will have other sides if you look hard enough.

~ A clear conscience makes a soft pillow.

~ Forbidden fruit creates many jams.

~ To belittle is to be little.

~ Can't sleep? Try counting your blessings

~ Try God If you don't like Him, the devil will always
take you back.~ It is easier to acknowledge your horse's faults, once you have acknowledged your own.
~ You can't weigh the facts if you got the scales weighed down with your own opinions.
~ If you are riding a high horse, there ain't no way to get down off it gracefully.
~ However one sided a man may be, he will have other sides if you look hard enough.
~ A clear conscience makes a soft pillow.
~ Forbidden fruit creates many jams.
~ To belittle is to be little.
~ Can't sleep? Try counting your blessings
~ Try Jesus. If you don't like Him, the devil will always
take you back.
~ It's hard to stumble when you're on your knees.

~ Never give the devil a ride. He will always want to the reins.
"I don't play games with my abstinence."

Focus on the weight and lose the program.
Focus on the program and lose the weight.
eliance, not defiance.
Utilize, don’t analyze.
Figuring it out is not a step.
Figuring it out is not a tool either!
When I am feeling badly I racked my brain to find the cause. Then I heard this slogan. I realized that I needed to take steps one, two and three again.
When I don't have the ability to accept the "downs" in life and can't see a way to change them, I can always change my attitude.
Just like bathing, abstinence doesn't last.
That's why we recommend doing it daily.
I realize that it takes repetition to change a bad habit into a good one, that I needed to have faith, forgive myself and all the people that used and abused me in the past and stick to the program one day at a time.

1. My weight is none of my business

2. Everything I let go of has claw marks in it.

3. "Why don't you let THEM be the judge of that?" (When I said that I don't like to call people because I'm afraid I'm bothering them.)

4. Call me if you need girl time.

5. There's a difference between being on a food plan and being abstinent. I can stay on my food plan and still be an *kitten*.
"Serenity begins when you stop expecting and start accepting."
"Should you encounter a problem along your way, change your direction but not your destination..."
----
"Just because the monkey is off my back, it doesn't mean the circus has left town."

---

"Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change." - Dr. Wayne Dyer

---

“I get in touch with the still small voice within and let the flurry of my thoughts rest in a moment of silence. I find that the best choices have a sense of ‘rightness’ to them”
~ It is easier to acknowledge your horse's faults, once you have acknowledged your own.

~ Just cause trouble comes visiting doesn't mean you have to offer it a place to sit down.

~ What this country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.

~ You can't weigh the facts if you got the scales weighed down with your own opinions.

~ The wages of sin is death. Repent before payday!

~ Don't make a long story short just so you can tell another one.

~ If you are riding a high horse, there ain't no way to get down off it gracefully.

~ However one sided a man may be, he will have other sides if you look hard enough.

~ A clear conscience makes a soft pillow.

~ Forbidden fruit creates many jams.

~ To belittle is to be little.

~ Can't sleep? Try counting your blessings

~ Try Jesus. If you don't like Him, the devil will always
take you back.~ It is easier to acknowledge your horse's faults, once you have acknowledged your own.

~ Just cause trouble comes visiting doesn't mean you have to offer it a place to sit down.

~ What this country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.

~ You can't weigh the facts if you got the scales weighed down with your own opinions.

~ The wages of sin is death. Repent before payday!

~ Don't make a long story short just so you can tell another one.

~ If you are riding a high horse, there ain't no way to get down off it gracefully.

One of my favourite slogans is: If I focus on the weight, I'll lose the program; if I focus on the program, I'll lose the weight.
Yours in recovery,
David

~ However one sided a man may be, he will have other sides if you look hard enough.

~ A clear conscience makes a soft pillow.

~ Forbidden fruit creates many jams.

~ To belittle is to be little.

~ Can't sleep? Try counting your blessings

~ Try Jesus. If you don't like Him, the devil will always
take you back.~ It is easier to acknowledge your horse's faults, once you have acknowledged your own.
~ You can't weigh the facts if you got the scales weighed down with your own opinions.
~ If you are riding a high horse, there ain't no way to get down off it gracefully.
~ However one sided a man may be, he will have other sides if you look hard enough.
~ A clear conscience makes a soft pillow.
~ Forbidden fruit creates many jams.
~ To belittle is to be little.
~ Can't sleep? Try counting your blessings
~ Try Jesus. If you don't like Him, the devil will always
take you back.
~ It's hard to stumble when you're on your knees.

~ Never give the devil a ride. He will always want to the reins.
"I don't play games with my abstinence."
There are a variety of circumstances that we can allow to move us right up to the edge of breaking our abstinence. We can play a little game of chicken with our Higher Power, maybe by being around trigger foods when our thinking isn't completely straight, watching TV shows and commercials that we pay a little too much attention to, skipping meals, or letting up on our program because we think we've conquered this thing. I know I can't afford to do this, so this slogan keeps me honest.
Cathy M

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I came
I came to
I came too
I came/became two
I came to believe
The original slogan was:
I came (to a meeting)
I came to (I became conscious/ sober/abstinent)
I came to believe (I believed that a Higher Power could restore me to sanity)