I have been in and out of OA for over 30 years and could never get 30 days of back to back abstinence. I have to agree with Kathleen, that abstinence is not recovery. It is not like alcohol. I have to decide every day what I am going to eat. I am on step 3 now of RR. I still have a long way to go, but I feel better about myself AND food plan than I have did previously. Yes, I have my daily sugar fix, but I can feel my body healing and my mind gaining a discipline for the first time in my life.

Jeffrey
ç: I don't know if anyone has tried
: these but I recently attended an
: OA meeting, I admit I can
: definitely go overboard and
: just..well, keep going lol when it
: comes to certain 'trigger' foods.

: ANyway, I went to this meeting
: modeled after the Alcoholics Anon.
: groups and I found it SO
: incredibly rewarding. Finally, a
: place where so many others GET
: it...the addictions, the feelings
: of high/low and your life and soul
: being sold away to this awful
: sugar that ends up consuming you
: whole!

: They talk about abstinence a lot in
: these groups and I feel guilt that
: I'm still not 'abstinent'...i
: mean, I do still have the sugar
: but then again I am still on Step
: 1 so its understandable. But a lot
: of them talk about 'quitting cold
: turkey' with the sugar and I just
: feel lots of shame that I can't do
: this.