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Woman 59 yo, 5'6" looking to loose 50#s
Hi! I've been in and out active on MFP for quite awhile now, but have quit dipping my toes and jumped into the pool! Recently returned from a trip to Yosemite National Park and had an eye-opening wake up call. Had a heck of turmoiled last 9 months: Daughter graduated high school & moved out; hubby & I moved from our home…
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Raise Your Wings, Inc.
Hello beautiful horse lovers! If you are on Facebook, I offer you a beautiful page to connect with ... Raise Your Wings ""Raise your Wings" primary goal is give others an opportunity to experience the amazing bond that is formed when connecting with horses. In doing so, it will help one to spread their own wings and soar…
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Handling Change
Tonight my almost 17 year old daughter purchased her own iPhone 4S with the income she has been earning through her new job! This is thrilling, exciting and scary as all heck. Tomorrow we take her paycheck and open her a checking and savings account -- including debit card. :noway: My baby is growing up and I can't stop it…
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OA Gatherings
When I left OA all those years ago, it was after having attended an OA retreat -- for the 5th time. Right after that -- pppfffffttttt -- I was gone. Although it wasn't about the Program so much as many changes in my life, including an emotional affair (nothing physical, but it made me realize how lonely I had been for so…
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The Tools Of Recovery (abridged)
We use tools—a plan of eating, sponsorship, meetings, the telephone, writing, literature, action plan, anonymity and service—to help us achieve and maintain abstinence and recover from our disease. Many of us have found we cannot abstain from compulsive eating unless we use some or all of OA’s nine tools of recovery to…
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I Put My Hand In Yours
I put my hand in yours, and together we can do what we could never do alone. No longer is there a sense of hopelessness, no longer must we each depend upon our own unsteady willpower. We are all together now, reaching out our hands for power and strength greater than ours, and as we join hands, we find love and…
