OA DUers, do you write out your planned meals/snacks

[irisblue]

Daily? If daily time of day? Morning before b-fast? After dinner for the next day?

Weekly? While getting a grocery together?

Help please.

[northoftheborder]

1. While making groc list about twice a month.

I don’t consider myself OA just trying to be more organized. Groc shopping only curbside so cant make numerous trips to store.

[Polly Hennessey]

2. I make a grocery list.

I think about what I will have each day. Right now I am thinking about a salad and crackers with an orange flavored San Pelligrino for lunch. Dinner tonight is fried rice with chicken and celery, small glass of pink lemonade, and for dessert an apple with a very small Heath candy bar. Tomorrow for breakfast some yogurt and then I will think about lunch and dinner.

[Stuart G]

3. I used to do a list, but not lately. Knowing what you will eat ahead of time, and

when you will eat it, could help save your life.
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When I started OA, we talked about the lists.
Not only ahead of time, but after we ate, we made that list too. After awhile the list of what
you ate, and when you ate it, sticks in your head. But in the beginning it does work.

...So going to meetings, and making the list each day, and memorizing the lists or keeping them in a notebook,
will soon help you to remember the size and amount of what you ate....Keeping that record will help you to lose
or gain weight if that is your goal...........

I came into OA at about 210 pounds. Lost a lot of weight over two years, and have been at about 155 to 160. for over 40 years. OA saved my life. I am 5 ft 6 and 1/2 inches tall.. I would recommend anything that helps to know what you eat and when you eat it....

A list, a notebook, whatever kind of paper you desire. After a few months the lists will tell you why you are gaining or losing weight. Each of us, gains and loses weight for lots of reasons. Height, weight, activity, exercise, living conditions, etc. In 1982 - 83, or 84, I threw away the scale and have not owned one since. I weigh myself
at the doctor's office only. OA program talks a lot about prayer. I pray all the time with simple" Stuart prayers"that work for me.

..Whatever system you use, writing the list, at what time, etc, what works best for you is the way to go. Two last ideas:...A) Please don't ever give up...never... B) If it were easy, it would be easy..this is one of the hardest addictions to beat that is imaginable.
.... I had maybe 10-15 years of one failure after another..I was 36 when I finally was successful .
That is why there are so many magazines and books out about losing weight. If it worked easily, then everybody would be successful after the 1st or 2nd try....As I said it took years before I took the weight off and kept it off.
.....And again...don't give up.. You can beat this, but it isn't easy.. (If gaining weight is your problem, then
there are lot of different ways to do it) That is another one that is not ...easy....