Before coming into FA, I really thought that all I needed was a bigger bathtub. I had convinced myself of this after I had risen from the tub and a large tidal wave gushed down the drain. It was like a miniature Niagara Falls. At that moment, I told myself, I’ve outgrown this tub. It was then that I came up with the grand idea: I’ll get a larger one, perhaps a garden tub. I remember weighing myself shortly afterwards. I was 51 years old, 5’8 tall,” and I weighed 289 pounds, just eleven pounds short of 300. “Grossly obese,”

I love skiing and traveling. Before being saved by FA, I skied all the day long, overeating at lunch, and crashing after a hard day of skiing and snacking. (I still find extra goodies in my ski jacket pockets from the years of “just in case I get hungry” thoughts that encouraged me to save treats or buy extras.) I also traveled to exotic places in various parts of the world. When I came into FA, I was not sure how I could continue to travel and ski once I began working the program the way I do. I have

The first time I came to FA, I thought I could run the program my way. I had been working a good AA program and had 27 years of sobriety. The only thing that I needed FA for was to lose weight. I learned the hard way that half measures avail us nothing. I did lose weight. I went from 200 pounds down to 130 and kept it off for 2.5 years. I weighed and measured my food, and that was about it. I didn’t think I needed to do the other disciplines because I was different, unique. So I