Insulin Resistance? Fatty Liver?

As you can see, I have been on and off diets most of my life.  It hasn't been easy for me.  It goes good for a while - from 2 to 4 weeks, sometimes longer, but for some reason I go back to the old ways. I gain some or all the weight I lost and feel like crap. Even OA was good for a while but I went back to the old ways.

An ultrasound of the bladder/kidney a few days ago informed the urologist that I have a stone which isn't a problem yet, and also a fatty liver.  I never even heard of a fatty liver so I asked my daughter who always steers me to the right direction, she told me to read up on it and said I will have to adjust my diet for low carbs, no sugar, and other things.  So, I searched Bing, found tons of info on it, and joined a team in SpakPeople.

Ordered a book, Insulin Resistance Diet from Amazon.  

I hope I am on the way to finding a solution to a problem I have for a long time.  Thank you God for showing me the way.

What Recovery and Serenity Is To Me

It seems appropriate for my first blog to try and explain what Recovery and Serenity mean to me and to those who suffer from varying degrees of obsessive food behavior, in essence anyone who has one or more of these symptoms...

• obsession with body weight, size and shape
• eating binges or grazing
• preoccupation with reducing diets
• starving
• laxative or diuretic abuse
• excessive exercise
• inducing vomiting after eating
• chewing and spitting out food
• use of diet pills, shots and other medical interventions to control weight
• inability to stop eating certain foods after taking the first bite
• fantasies about food
• vulnerability to quick-weight-loss schemes
• constant preoccupation with food
• using food as a reward or comfort

Overeaters Anonymous gives us a Twelve-Step program of "recovery" from compulsive overeating.  A number of tools are available to assist us and we can use these tools regularly to help us achieve and maintain abstinence and recover from our disease. Click on any one of the following tools for more information.

A Plan of Eating
Sponsorship
Meetings
Telephone
Writing
LiteratureAction Plan
Anonymity
Service

Read more:  http://www.oa.org/new-to-oa/about-oa.php

In general, RECOVERY can be defined this way.

1. return to health: the return to normal health of somebody who has been ill or injured.
2. return to normal state: the return of something to a normal or improved state after a setback or loss.
3. gaining back of something lost: the regaining of something lost or taken away.

After experiencing many years of abnormal health because of improper eating habits and constant dieting, one of the things I enjoy in OA is a return to a normalized behavior regarding food. I was thankful for that.

Now on to SERENITY.  There are many definitions for that word.  Basically it means PEACE and that's exactly what OA offers to those who need a plan or program of recovery from compulsive overeating using the tools, 12 Steps and 12 Traditions.  Developing a feeling of serenity isn't an easy process, but it can be done as witnessed by those who share with us how they achieved abstinence. 

Is OA for you?  Maybe it is.  Answer a couple questions at this website to find out:  http://www.oa.org/new-to-oa/is-oa-for-you.php

Only you can decide what's best for you.  I believe that this illness is progressive and is definitely worth doing something about before it gets worse. That's why I joined OA on November 19, 2009.  I haven't achieved constant abstinence in these two years, but I did experience it for almost a year and am working toward that goal each and every day, one day at a time.  I can't imagine what it would be like without OA now.