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The Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions of Overeaters Anonymous

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Before the image of an OA meeting being filled with obese people fills your mind ... think again. An overeater can be anyone ... fashion model ... successful accountant in a size 8 ... fitness trainer ... midly plump dental assistant ... anyone. The causes and reasons are different. Overeating is not a lack of willpower but an emotional relationship to food that has someone not know when to stop. Eating is natural, overeating needs to be addressed so as to protect our very health. This wonderful "bible" for Overeaters Anonymous helps those in recovery work their healing one day at a time. Whether at a meeting, or in a personal inventory, or in working with a sponsor ... this contains elements of surrendering our will power to a higher power. Whether you believe in God or not, the notion of not having to do this alone is a welcome relief for many caught in a viscious circle of emotional medication through misuse of food. The concept of a higher power enables someone to be open to group support and feel the possibility of living a healthier way. This book is a program that is not a quick fix, a diet, or anykind of body makeover technique. What it provides is a way of thinking and living that addresses the root of using food as a drug.

Not much else to say, but that I use this book on a regular basis and consider it fundamental to my recovery from compulsive overeating. It's a challenging book and seems to grow in meaning as I grow in understanding!

This is an excellent book for people who are addicted to compulsive eating. If you use the principles of OA in your daily lives, you will be able to stop eating compulsively and lose the excess weight.

The 12 steps of Overeaters Anonymous is a book that teaches you to live your life today what ever your size is. Overeaters can be the slim ones as well as the ones with overweight, they suffer the same way!

It is not what you are eating it is what is eating you.

After walking the steps with a sponsor I am now free of this sick compulsion. I read this book all the time and go to meetings. You can find your meeting at [...]

It works if you work it
Anonymous in Iceland

I first got this book from my local library 6 years ago and discovered to my shock and relief that 1) other people had done and thought the same crazy things with and about food that I did and, 2) that I was sick, not stupid/selfish/lazy. A few weeks later I screwed up the courage to attend my first OA meeting and have been reading this book,following the 12-steps and attending OA meetings for 6 years. For five years I have maintained a 60 pound weight loss (and milion pound shame and sadness loss). Freedom from food addiction saved my life (I was suicidal), my marriage (like all addicts, I was impossible to live with), and my relationships with my children(I was extremely dysfunctional, for eg yelling at my crying preschoolers for not hiding their candy better!) I have bought multiple copies since then so I always have one handy to read or pass on.

This is a great book that thoroughly explains the Twelve Steps of the Overeaters Anonymous Program. Some steps are easy. Some may be the hardest things you've ever done. But each step is presented with the reasons why it is necessary, the part it plays in the healing process, and suggestions to help you accomplish it. The book also stresses the importance of the strength you draw from other members of your group and from your sponsor. A must read for members of Overeaters Anonymous or for those thinking of joining.

If food controls your life then this is the book for you put out by Over Eaters Anonymous. 12 step program to take back your life and power from food.

I spent several years using the 12 steps and 12 traditions of AA as a basis for spiritual guidance/life answers, and was greatly benefited by it in my recovery life in AA. I was interested and am pleasently/presently satisfied with what the material in the book has done for my spiritual life.

took a while to get here but it the book is fine. i go to oa meetings all the time.

As an exercise physiologist and author of a successful fat-loss book, I am so happy to see such a sincere and understanding approach to managing the problem of compulsive eating. There is so much more to becoming healthy than working out and counting calories. With an approach such as is found in this program, a person can really take control of his or her dietary intake. For anyone who has trouble controlling their eating and wants to be as healthy as they can, if you combine this program with the right plan to incorporate an active, healthy lifestyle into your daily routine, weight management success will be at your doorstep. Good luck to all as you pursue control, health, and happiness!