Drop out rate

In several places, I have noted comments about the OA drop Out Rate. I maintain that, before you can drop out, you need to be on the program. We have many visitors, perhaps they buy a book, and go away. These people have never been in the program, so they are not part of the drop outs. I think that our actual drop out rate is low. There are many that come in, work the program, and leave. Stop practising sure. But the program is ongoing, no graduation, they never go that part of the program, so they never got onto the program, so they cannot drop out. Visitors come and go, sure, but if you are on the program, it is a life commitment. End of.

For those of us who define god as good orderly direction, how can we drop out? We can stop attending meetings, but since we do not do "exit interviews", what do we really know.

What has god done for you today?

a twist again

A Buddhist’s Non-Theist 12 Steps:

1. We admitted our addictive craving over alcohol, and recognized its consequences in our lives.
2. Came to believe that a power other than self could restore us to wholeness.
3. Made a decision to go for refuge to this other power as we understood it.
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5. Admitted to ourselves and another human being the exact moral nature of our past.
6. Became entirely ready to work at transforming ourselves.
7. With the assistance of others and our own firm resolve, we transformed unskillful aspects of ourselves and cultivated positive ones.
8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed.
9. Made direct amends to such people where possible, except when to do so would injure them or others. In addition, made a conscientious effort to forgive all those who harmed us.
10. Continue to maintain awareness of our actions and motives, and when we acted unskillfully promptly admitted it.
11. Engaged through the practice of meditation to improve our conscious contact with our true selves, and seeking that beyond self. Also used prayer as a means to cultivate positive attitudes and states of mind.
12. Having gained spiritual insight as a result of these steps, we practice these principles in all areas of our lives, and make this message available to others in need of recovery.

Why do I blog?

On the way home after the meeting today, I asked myself why I keep going, and why I blog. The answer came. Someone needs to stand up and screen at those government twits and other assorted deaf  dumb, and blind, it is those exorphins that I now find out are being added to food because they cause an increase in consumption. Yah, yah, being added.

Get this now. Get exorphins out of our (your) diet, and the craving to eat goes away, or greatly reduces.

Banexorphin ... sounds like an organization dedicated to the removal of exorphin from the human food chain. 

is food addiction real?

Is food addiction real? Certainly, there is something like food addiction, and it goes away in about three days after we give up all those foods that we are "addicted" to. But some of those foods are hard to define, and I have struggled years, either unwilling to accept or not identifying the foods, partly due to believing some of the diet advice.

But once I identified and accepted that I could not consume specific foods, the hunger went away. So why am I now still doing the OA thing? Well, I recognize, that what I see as the solution may not last, and then there is the social aspects of the program. But the message I want to carry is one of abandon all exorphins and acellular carbohydrates, and learn what those are and what it is all about.

Or is all just chemical

exorphins

Exo ( exogenous ) + endorphins ( endogenous moprphins ):
exorphins are the brain's opiates that's found in food, outside the body -- mainly in gluten-rich wheat and dairy-products. They contain opioid peptides-influencing endorphin-receptors. These peptides are physically addictive, causing dependence, asthma, obesity, apathy, ignorance and numbness. 
'Zombie food', is food high in exorphins that are responisble for food addiction and compulsive eating.

To OA or not to OA

I am struggling with the question. It seams that this whole food issue may be just chemical. Once we realize that, and stop ingesting those exorphins and acellular carbohydrates, what becomes the point?

There is a social component to the program, and a attitude adjustment component, and a gratitude, carry the message component, but the OA program does not allow us to express a clear statement as to the actual cause of the problem. Now what, when I want to screen, it is those damn exorphins. Stop ingesting them, and the problem reduces to a just do it every day situation.

At this time, I have concluded that the compulsion to eat that I feel is largely the result ingestion of exorphins. Duh. Now, where do I go from hear?  

Chemical or Psycological

Are addiction / cravings / compulsions chemical or psychological? A few days ago, I thought they were both. Today I am not sure. Butter at nearly every meal. LCHF things butter is an ideal fat. And the "compulsion" to eat was always there. When there was no butter, during my weight loss phase, the compulsions were much less. Now the concept of butter addiction has come to my mind, and early results indicate butter may be the driving force behind the cravings/compulsions.

I will test myself for a while with no butter, and see if there is a difference.

Atheist Faith

Today, on step two, something came clear to me. As an atheist, I believe in good orderly direction to govern my life. Prayer is more like a mediation, not a blank mind, but to the breath, and then to the problem of the hour, when I loose concentration, back to the breath and then to the problem. But I degress

Faith is my topic, and as I am a compulsive person, today, now, the compulsion is on recovery. What the next hour will bring is something else. Back to what does faith mean to a atheist. Faithful means to keep on following a principal, without wavering. Much as I committed to be "faithful" to wifee, I now make a commitment to not consume sugar, grains, manufactured editable products and omega 6 rich oils.

The next level of commitment, which I struggle with is a commitment to three moderate meals per day.   I am a compulsive person, without a doubt. Some of the time, I am compulsive working or doing something. All or very little, full speed or idle, just like a small outboard motor. Chicken or feathers.

A spiritual awaking is a personality change sufficient to bring about an end to the problem. It may be just a recognition of the problem and a work around the problem, not necessarily a removal of the problem.


I have a compulsion to deal with along with all the other shit. Oh well, life goes on.