What is OA?
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Newcomers / How Do I Start?
"We were obsessed with food and no amount of self-control or weight loss could cure us. Because of this obsession, the day always came when the excess food looked so inviting to us we couldn't resist and our firm resolutions were forgotten... The mental obsession was something we couldn't be rid of by our unaided human will." - from Step One pg 5, OA 12 and 12 second edition Newcomers Orientation Video
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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 gives them. Meetings provide the opportunity to identify and confirm whether or not you are one of us. Many OAs come to think Meetings help me feel better, the Steps help me get better.
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Find a Sponsor
You find a sponsor by going to meetings and listening. You find a sponsor by talking to other members. When you find a sponsor who has what you want, ask that person how he or she is achieving it. A sponsor is an OA member living the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions to the best of their ability. Sponsors 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. Many OAs come to think A person with even one day in the program can reach out and help a person with none.
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. Many OAs come to think A person with even one day in the program can reach out and help a person with none.
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. Food plans can be as diverse and different as the people in this program. What we eat doesn't bind us together. What binds us together is the disease of compulsive overeating and the desire to stop.
The Twelve Steps of Overeaters Anonymous