Overeaters Anonymous

JB1114
on 4/3/15 1:32 am - Grain Valley, MO

I don't know much about OA.  Many years ago I went to a few meetings.  The only thing I remember is the pig.  If you had gained more weight than anyone else, you took the pit home to put on your fridge to remind you to stay on your plan.  I never got the pig, but I quit going in fear of getting it one week. 

~Jo~

RNY: July 8, 2008

Dr. John Price

Kansas City, MO

Tracy D.
on 4/3/15 1:58 am - Papillion, NE
VSG on 05/24/13

Ummm, are you sure that was OA?  Because never in the history of OA has there ever been a scale or a pig used to single someone out.  OA is based on the 12-steps and 12 principles of Alcoholics Anonymous.   There are no scales used in meetings...ever.  So no one would know if you weren't "on your plan" except you. 

 Tracy  5'3"     HW: 235  SW: 218  CW: 132    M1: -22  M2: -13  M3: -12  M4: -9  M5: -8   M6: -10   M7: -4

 Goal reached in 7 months and 1 week

 Lower Body Lift w/Dr. Barnthouse 7-8-15

   

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

Alison B.
on 4/3/15 4:27 am - ROSEVILLE, MN
VSG on 05/28/15

I'm pretty sure that would have been TOPS (take off pounds sensibly). My mother attended these meetings, and there was indeed a traveling pig that went home with the person who'd gained the most weight that week. I don't know how big it was or what it was made of, but I'm guessing that shaming people this way didn't work very well.

Height: 5'10" HW: 264.4 Bariatric information session 1/21/15. Insurance approves VSG 4/30/15. Surgery date 5/28/15.

    

    

jastypes
on 4/3/15 11:34 am - Croydon, PA

Never heard of anything like that in OA.  That sounds awful!


Blessings, Jill

WLS 5/31/07.  Maintaining a weight loss of 141 pounds and feeling amazing!

Kate -True Brit
on 4/3/15 7:28 pm - UK
On April 3, 2015 at 8:32 AM Pacific Time, JB1114 wrote:

I don't know much about OA.  Many years ago I went to a few meetings.  The only thing I remember is the pig.  If you had gained more weight than anyone else, you took the pit home to put on your fridge to remind you to stay on your plan.  I never got the pig, but I quit going in fear of getting it one week. 

Are you sure that was OA?

Highest 290, Banded - 248   Lowest 139 (too thin!). Comfort zone 155-165.

Happily banded since May 2006.  Regain of 28lbs 2013-14.  ALL GONE!

But some has returned! Up to 175, argh! Off we go again,

   

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