Letting Go of Compulsive Eating is an inspirational reader used by members ofOvereaters Anonymous and others with eating disorders, substance abuse problems,or behavior addictions. Anonymous individuals who practice Twelve Step Recoverydecided to produce this daily reader to more fully reflect our experience with dietingand recovery from compulsive eating. Such collective wisdom helps us to view eachday as an opportunity for happiness by focusing on the reality of today without theburdens of compulsive eating. We are on a brighter firmer path. Our experience withdieting is what we first tried to solve life problems and compulsive eating. It is wherewe first hit bottom. Often it made us sick and impaired our thinking. We came intoTwelve Step Recovery.pWith quotes from Anne Lamott, Camryn Manheim, Bob Dylan, Joan Didion, OprahWinfrey, Alice Walker, Aimee Liu, and other notables, past and present, used inconcert with the meditations, this reader brings some of the pleasures and rewardsabout truth-telling and arriving at self-truth to the surface. Selections deal with ourdesperation and fear, misconceptions about life, and especially, how our ideas of love,the terrors of love, and romantic addiction have played into our dieting and themethods we have tried. We talk about what we have tried for control, invisibility,buying time, putting off or conquering life. We identify 'So Many Lies' about the remedies,behaviors and methods, and tell about putting our lives on the basis of truth.We tell what happened to make us stop using compulsive dieting and to come intoTwelve Step Recovery. We share about "Self-Care" and "Building On Identity" - whatwe do to practice clear thinking, detach from erroneous messages, clear away selfdeception,develop kindness toward self and others, be safe, recognize and dealeffectively with attack voices, deal with overwhelming emotions, know and practicecourage, serve, and build identity based on our God-given talents, abilities andenthusiasms. We talk about love, honor, loving self, loving another, loving the world.