Table of Contents
Introduction xi
What You Will Find in This Book xiii
Beginning Our GSA Journey
Chapter 1 Abstinence 1
Chapter 2 Getting Through Withdrawal 5
Chapter 3 Going to Meetings 10
Chapter 4 Making Phone Calls 16
Nuts and Bolts of Grey Sheet Abstinence
Chapter 5 A Roadmap for Grocery Shopping 21
Chapter 6 What Is Backup? 25
Chapter 7 Challenges with Our Food Scales 30
GSA Recovery and the People in Our Lives
Chapter 8 When People Ask Questions About Our Food Plan 37
Chapter 9 Dealing with Friends Who Don't Support Us 41
Chapter 10 How to Navigate Parties 44
Chapter 11 Keeping Non-Abstinent Food in Our Homes 50
Protecting Our Abstinence
Chapter 12 We Are Always Vulnerable to Our Disease 57
Chapter 13 Watching Out for Over-Elation 60
Chapter 14 Anger and Resentment 64
Chapter 15 Remembering the Worst of Our Compulsive Eating 69
Slogans to Live By
Chapter 16 First Things First 75
Chapter 17 Easy Does It 78
Chapter 18 Without Exception and No Matter What 82
Life in GSA Recovery
Chapter 19 Taking Care of Ourselves 89
Chapter 20 Giving Up Harmful Beliefs and Ideas 93
Chapter 21 Dealing with Loneliness 98
Chapter 22 Professional Help for Our Health 102
Chapter 23 Letting Go of Self-Pity 106
Chapter 24 Insomnia and Eating Dreams 110
Chapter 25 Gratitude 114
Chapter 26 A Few Words About the Twelve Steps 117
Chapter 27 Living Through the COVID-19 Pandemic 119
Appendix: Literature 123
