What is OA?
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How Do I Start?
Welcome to Overeaters Anonymous Are you wondering if OA might be the solution to your food and eating behaviors? `Take our quiz to determine if you might be a compulsive eater or download and print the quiz.
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Meetings are where two or more compulsive overeaters come together to share their personal experience, and the strength and hope OA has given them. Though there are many types of meetings, it is the fellowship with other compulsive overeaters that is the basis of them all. Meetings provide the opportunity to identify and confirm whether or not you are one of us. Meetings are where all individuals share their common problem and share the gifts they receive through this program.
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Find a Sponsor

You can find a sponsor by going to meetings and listening. You can find a sponsor by talking to other members. When you find a sponsor who has what you want, you ask that person how he or she is achieving it. Overeaters Anonymous is a program of attraction,
A sponsor is an OA members is living the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions to the best of their ability. Sponsors are willing to share their recovery with other members of the Fellowship and are committed to abstinence.
When an OA member agrees to sponsor, they commit to help you through your program of recovery on all three levels: physical, emotional and spiritual.
Sponsors continually renew and reaffirm their own program of recovery by working with other OA members and by sharing their experience, strength and hope, Sponsors share their program up to the level of their own experience.
A sponsor is an OA members is living the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions to the best of their ability. Sponsors are willing to share their recovery with other members of the Fellowship and are committed to abstinence.
When an OA member agrees to sponsor, they commit to help you through your program of recovery on all three levels: physical, emotional and spiritual.
Sponsors continually renew and reaffirm their own program of recovery by working with other OA members and by sharing their experience, strength and hope, Sponsors share their program up to the level of their own experience.
Working Your Program of Recovery
A Plan of Eating
Overeaters Anonymous is not a diet and calories club. OA does not endorse or recommend any specific plan of eating, nor does it exclude the personal use of using one.
The Twelve Steps of Overeaters Anonymous