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You’ll enjoy Mickey B’s entertaining story of hope, stretching a lifetime of compulsive eating from his childhood in Ireland to his adulthood in America. Mickey shares a number of interesting things that occurred in his life that led from food insanity to his current abstinence and maintaining 60 pounds of weight loss:

What it was like to grow up in the middle of the Irish war

What terrible thing was communicated to him in boarding school, why it affected him for many years, and the unusual thing he did after it happened

His extreme patterns of eating, occasionally over 12,000 calories is sitting

What his emotional state was like after he binged

Other types of compulsive behavior he used to deal with binging

Crazy things he believed

How he “audited the class” at his first attempt in OA

What it took for him to rejoin OA

Something he had to learn that most people know how to do already

Why he jumped into a trash bin for “legitimate purposes”

The expression he used to hate that he uses all the time now