In the beginning, in 1989 I went to meetings in NYC at least 4 times a week, but after years of struggle, including going through a lot of deaths in the family, I finally lost it completely, and learned that I had to surrender ALL THE PARTS OF MYSELF to this program. In 1998 after 1 year of back to back abstinence I married and moved here to Washington State where there are NO meetings really. So all those meetings I went to and LISTENED AND LISTENED AND LISTENED are still with me today. I have ...
In the very beginning, I went to a greysheet meeting every day. Today 3-4 years later, I go to no less than 3-4 greysheet meetings a week. I do not substitute AA meetings for GreySheet, as I live in a city where GreySheet is in abundance. I seldom substitute phone meetings for live meetings.I go to therapy and Al-Anon 4 days a week as I ate because I hurt so much and need healing on an emotional level.I have belonged to a Buddhist group for the last 14 years so that is where I get my spiritualit...
For me what has really worked throughout my abstinence is "Move a muscle, change a thought." Whenever I want to eat, I first get out of the kitchen and away from the food. Then, as I do with my young children, I distract myself. I do anything to forget that I am "hungry." I put my blinders on and I say "I'm not going to eat no matter what...not an option," so what else can I do for the next hour or so until it's lunchtime? Even making a cup of tea can be distracting and phy...
In the beginning of my abstinence I did exactly what was suggested to do:Get on my knees each morning and ask for help to not take the first bite.Go to a meeting.Make 3 calls a day.Don't Eat No Matter What.Get on my knees every night and thank my HP for a daily reprieve from compulsive overeating.
Have a CD player in my kitchen where I prepare my food. I am then able to play my most favorite music (women singers, Celtic, bluegrass, new age, YoYo Ma) while I'm chopping, weighing and measuring. It makes the experience very pleasurable, and for me, who used to eat whole meals whilst I was preparing food (and then sit down and eat whole meals!) it just seems to keep me focused on taking care of myself and Not Eating No Matter What! No Extra Bites during preparation. But I can liste...
Being totally desperate and willing to do whatever a qualified abstinent person said to do to get relief.Not waiting until I had self-esteem, faith, loved myself, or found a loving and kind sponsor that I bonded with.Following directions even when they were illogical, inconvenient, or expensive or given to me by someone I didn't admire.Making three GS connections a day (this is where graduate student poverty forced me to invent the GreyNet to avoid long distance phone calls from Kalamazoo, MI. D...
Hi, I'm [Anonymous], a Co, and I W&M 3 meals a day from the GS, DENMW in between, write my food down, commit it to my wonderful sponsor, and Abstinence is the MOst important thing in my life today, because without it I don't have a life. I was really touched by the person who said she had time on her hands didn't know what to do with it and not eat. I still have those times, I'm a stay-at-home mom and although that gives me plenty to do, I still find those times when my soul is bored and my ...
I am abstinent today off the Grey Sheet. I weigh and measure three meals a day, commit them to my sponsor and don't eat in between no matter what. What does no matter what mean? It means that my abstinence comes first in every single situation. There is nothing that can ever be improved by my picking up the food, and everything can be made worse if I do. I have gone through travel of all kinds, three pregnancies, moving, grieving, disappoint...
Hello, This is [Anonymous] from the Cincinnati Greysheet community. I am abstinent & grateful today by the grace of God and the support of the Greysheet community. I weigh and measure three meals a day from the Greysheet, write them down, commit them to my sponsor, and I don't eat between meals no matter what. I have 134 pounds of physical recovery and 34 months of back-to-back abstinence. Abstinence is the most important thing I do for myself toda...
Hi,I'm [Anonymous], compulsive overeater. I weigh and measure my food from the greysheet three times a day, call it into my sponsor, and don't eat no matter what. I recently celebrated 7 years of back to back abstinence. My life now, does not resemble my life before at all. I am grateful that I tried all of the "diets" out there before I crawled into greysheet, because now I don't wonder if anything else would work for me. Everything worked temporarily...
Hi, I'm [Anonymous] and I'm a compulsive overeater. My abstinence is 3 weighed and measured meals a day off of the Greysheet and I write my food out, call my sponsor, commit my food and weigh and measure without exception. As a result of these actions I've been abstinent from compulsive overeating since Feb. 15, 1990, and abstinence is the most important practice that I do in my life today, one day at a time. What does DENMW mean? *I* can't not eat compulsively.&...
Hi Greysheeters I am abstinent and grateful. I commit my food to my sponsor - I weigh and measure each meal without exception and abstinence is the most important thing I do no matter what today. I was talking to a friend in AA yesterday. In a cafe she had a soda with flavouring added that contained the stuff she is addicted too. It slipped past her radar because she can normally purchase it without 'the stuff' at the corner store. She was rebelling ag...