A 12-step program for supporting and treating people who overeat

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Overeaters Anonymous The first step of the Overeaters Anonymous program entails admitting that there’s a problem. The second step is acknowledging a higher power in which to entrust recovery. The third step in Overeaters Anonymous is resolving to put yourself in the hands of your higher power. Step four is an honest evaluation of your [...]

Overeaters Anonymous is an organization

Overeaters Anonymous Overeaters Anonymous is an organization for those who are compulsive eaters. Many of its members are overweight and some are obese, but they all share the same goal: to overcome their addiction to food. Overeaters Anonymous is not focused on weight loss alone but toward the reasons behind the compulsive urge to overeat. [...]

Steps and Traditions of Overeaters Anonymous

12 Steps and Traditions of OA The first seven steps of Overeaters Anonymous encourage members to look within themselves. They include admitting powerlessness over foods, believing in a greater power, turning will and life over to that higher power, making an honest moral inventory of self, admitting to greater power, self and others the nature [...]

Eating Disorders, Begin holding meetings

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Eating Disorders Eating Disorders Anonymous (EDA) website for information http://www.eatingdisordersanonymous.org. This site lists all current meetings and groups, as well as important details such as the purpose of EDA and its rules and regulations. If you want to start a new meeting group, choose the “Start a Meeting” option from the main page, and it [...]

A person can recover from addiction by letting go of issues they cannot control

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Recover from addiction If you are an alcoholic and want to recover, AA can help. As they say in the program, “it works if you work it.” Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) is based on the concepts that a person can recover from addiction by letting go of issues they cannot control, staying in the moment and [...]