To get the real joy of the program, you need to give away what you have learned and experienced. You can pray to your higher power to send you people to talk to about this program.

When I came to FA, I was desperate, sick, and very discouraged about the way my life was going. In the previous four years, I had gained 50 pounds and was up to 295. I prayed a simple, desperate prayer to God for help.

Through my hobby of old cars, I unknowingly met an FA member. He saw my distress and told me about FA. I started immediately.

By the first weigh-in, I’d already lost 10 pounds and I was elated. I knew I had the answer to my desperate prayer and was going in the right direction. I felt like hitting the streets as an FA evangelist. (I soon forgot that idea, after talking to a couple of more mature and experienced FA members.)

So instead, I called my cousin in Modesto and told her that she had to do this FA thing…that it was really working. She is a smart gal and always listens to her cousin. She called her sister, and then they started their journey in FA. My cousin in Modesto has lost 106 pounds and her sister has lost 66 pounds. This was the start of the FA chain reaction in our lives. All of us are thrilled, thankful, and grateful to God, our Higher Power, for leading us to FA.