Slogans

Look for my Higher Power in all things.

• One day at a time.
• First things first.
• But for the Grace of God.
• Easy does it.
• Live and let live.
• Let go and let God.
• Abstinence is the most important thing in my life, without exception.
• Think, think, think!
• Fake it till you make it.
• We’ll love you until you learn to love yourself.
• You can’t do it alone, but only you can do it.
• One is too many, a thousand not enough.
• It’s not what you’re eating, it’s what’s eating you.
• If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.
• If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
• Keep it simple.
• Service is slimming.
• Better is enough.
• Failure is success on the installment plan — if I learn from it.
• I can expect only to get better at this, not control it.
• Yesterday is history, tomorrow is mystery — stay in today. I won’t starve to death between meals.
• Floss and brush after every meal.
• Look for my Higher Power in all things.
• Love God in all things; love God above all things.
• God will either shield you from suffering or give you unfailing strength to bear it.
• If you can be humble, you’ll learn faster.
• Would I rather be right — or happy?
• I never let go of anything that didn’t have my claw marks all over it.
• If not this, then something better.
• The two ways to learn are the hard way and the harder way.
• The best things in life aren’t things.
• My Higher Power is whatever I turn to in a crisis.
• If I have a problem and eat over it, then I have two problems.
• The thing is, usually we’re wrong anyway; and even when we’re right, it’s not forever.
• My character shows as I respond to difficulty.
• Worry prevents recovery.
• If you like everyone you’ve met in OA, you haven’t been to enough meetings.
• Fall in line with the force of heaven; it is the force of heaven to accept and endure.
• The sooner I surrender, the better.
• Hope is the risk that must be run.
• Stay put and act in my own best interest.
• The way to ask for help is to say, “I need help.”
• Act as if…Am I around the program or in the program?
• Do the next, right thing.
• Don’t hurry. Don’t worry. Don’t compare.
• Easy does it — but do it!
• Expectations are premeditated resentments.
• Food thoughts are just thoughts. You don’t have to act.
• Forgiveness is letting go of a better past.
• HALT (Don’t get Hungry, Angry, Lonely, or Tired).
• Help is only a phone call away.
• Honesty, openness, willingness.
• I can’t. God can. I think I’ll let God.
• Just for today.
• Keep your recovery first to make it last.
• Listen and learn.
• Little strokes fell giant oaks.
• Meeting makers make it.
• Nothing tastes as good as abstinence feels!
• OA is not for those who need it, only for those who want it.
• One compulsive bite is too many and 100 bites are not enough.
• Progress not perfection.
• Repetition is nature’s only form of permanence.
• Sponsors carry the message — not the person.
• Take what you like and leave the rest. The 12 Steps: Trust God, clean house, help others, pray.
• The disease is physical. The cause is emotional. The cure is spiritual.
• The elevator is broken. Use the steps.
• There is no situation so bad that a compulsive bite can’t make it worse.
• This, too, shall pass!
• What other people think of me is none of my business.
• If you have one foot in yesterday and one in tomorrow you will pee all over today.
• Suit up and show up.
• It is none of my business what someone else thinks of me.
• Food is not your friend. You have plenty of other friends and interests.
• Trying is dying.
• One is too many one thousand is not enough.
• It’s about the food until it’s not about the food.
• Pick three tools.
• Sweep my side of the street.
• Bring the body and the mind will follow.
• If you do what you have always done you will get what you have always gotten.
• You are never too late unless you miss the closing.