CLIFF: Help is at hand

Thank you for running your eye-opening series “On health care’s cliff.” Thank you to Dr. Abate and other caring physicians who are making a difference.

I would like to invite those who continue to struggle with their inability to diet and exercise their way to good health, to attend a local Overeaters Anonymous (OA) meeting. I spent decades dieting, losing weight and gaining it back. Bulimia and anorexia were also a part of my history. Through this, I continued to exercise my way to near obesity. I had plenty of willpower, but that’s not enough when you’re facing the disease of compulsive overeating. Just like Alcoholics Anonymous, we overeaters have a disease, an addiction, for which there is hope. I found mine when I entered the rooms of OA more than four years ago. It was there I finally found a beautiful new way of living and in the process lost 65 pounds, and have kept it off.

I wish I had a doctor years ago who would have recommended OA to me. That could have saved me thousands of dollars in various diets, pills, treatments, as well as years of self-loathing. I am now living as I’m meant to — happy, joyous and free in a healthy body, mind and spirit.

Go to the Press Calendar of Events or oa.org to find meeting information.

ANONYMOUS

Member Coeur d’Alene Overeaters Anonymous