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“…we will be amazed…”
Here are just a few definitions of the word “amazed” that I recently found online: …bewildered, greatly surprised, astonished, overwhelmed, awestruck, to be stunned by the greatness of a thing, tongue-tied, speechless,… I chose the ones that I thought best expressed my own sense of “amazement” at the magnitude of the conversion from hopelessness to …
How I Became Abstinent (This Time)
For seven years (2002-2008), in addition to being a raging compulsive overeater, I was a raging workaholic and I stopped attending all OA meetings. Sometimes I tried to restrain my compulsion to overeat, but as the stress at work grew, so did my size. Not only did I eventually regain all of the 96 pounds I …