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 [...]

The first step towards recovering from compulsive overeating

Compulsive overeating The first step in recovering from compulsive overeating is realizing there’s a problem. Someone who eats compulsively cannot recover until facing up to the fact that he’s addicted to food, admitting powerlessness over his eating disorder. It’s only by surrendering to a higher power, seeking support from other compulsive overeaters, and using the [...]

Drink lots of water with your meal – prevent overeating

Overeating One way to eliminate overeating is with water. Water can help fill you up and has no calories. So during a meal decide how much water you want to drink so you do not overeat. By drinking water you get closer and closer to being full without losing calories. That way you can eat [...]