ollieacompulsiveovereater
This is my online journal of Recovery from Compulsive Overeating. This blog is a personal tool and is in no way affiliated with any established recovery group.- Overeaters Anonymous What OA is about, finding a meeting, getting literature, etc.
- Heart of Texas Overeaters Anonymous Overeaters Anonymous near Austin, TX
- Online Big Book
- Greysheeter's Anonymous
- Food Addicts Anonymous
- Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous
- Peoria Overeaters Anonymous
Some links which I have found useful; I am not representing any of these groups.
Monday, June 05, 2006
I am getting ready to head back to Peoria from Minneapolis.
Take a look at the picture to the side; notice the people in the background including those at the counter. There is also one person who isn't overweight; can you spot him (or her)?
This leads to another issue I have: I don't like fat people, or rather I have a bias against them.
No, I don't think that fat people are stupid, etc., and I wouldn't dream of considering a person's weight if they were, say, looking for a job. What I mean is that I don't like being around groups of fat people, especially when they are around food. That lends itself to a problem because many of my relatives, both "blood" relatives and "in-laws", are obese. Unfortunately, some are very young and obese.
But, as someone told me: "it isn't contageous and, if it (the propensity to overeat) were contageous, you already have it."
Now what explains my attraction toward extreme sports like ultramarathons? This article might provide a clue:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20060605/sc_space/menwhocantplaydrink
LiveScience Staff
LiveScience.comSun Jun 4, 10:00 PM ET
Here's a shocker: "Men who are not confident in their sporting abilities may try and make up for this by drinking excessively."
So says Richard de Visser, whose new study looked into the masculine behaviors of young men in London and how it all affects their health.
The University of Sussex researcher did in-depth interviews with 31 men age 18-21, concluding that they commonly use one type of typically masculine behavior to compensate for their inability to perform another.
With the World Cup soccer tournament starting Friday, and his nation's young men expected to down a few extra pints during the televised action from Germany, de Visser thinks understanding the findings could improve health education.
The message: Play ball!
The results "may be able to have an impact on the growing levels of anti-social behavior such as binge-drinking, violence and illicit drug-use," de Visser said Sunday. "Young men could be encouraged to develop a competence in a healthy typically male area—such as football—to resist social pressures to engage in unhealthy masculine behaviors."
The study, funded by the UK's Economic and Social Research Council, will be published later this year in Psychology and Health and the Journal of Health Psychology.
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