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Trusting My Higher Power

About seven months ago, I called to check in on my social security benefits. They were the sum total of […]

“Dialing” My Higher Power

Of all the tools of the program, making phone calls is the hardest for me. I am virtually phone phobic. […]

Regaining Hope

At my first FA meeting, I was greeted by a woman who told me that she had lost 40 pounds. […]

Ready, Willing, and Able

“Okay, you are right Dad, I’m addicted to food…now what?” At the tender age of fourteen, I agreed with my […]

Ins and Outs

I realized I had a problem with food when one bite was never enough. Even though I was not hungry, […]

Thanksgiving – Then and Now

I recently attended one of the 12 Thank-a-Thons in California. I was so grateful to have a place to go […]

Running from the Problem

When I first joined FA, I could not relate to anything I heard. I wasn’t an addict, I wasn’t 300 […]

Junk Runs 

I came into FA at the age of 37, at my most miserable top weight of 176 pounds (nearly 80kg). […]

Man in the Mirror 

My history is of decades of bingeing, dieting, and over-exercising. I could not pass a buffet without “hoovering” it up! My marriage was in tatters, my body bloated and exhausted, and my life was a complete lie.

By age 19, I could no longer ignore my frightening loss of control

Me, a food addict? Are you kidding? If you had told me just five years ago that I would soon […]

My Two Cents

I have experienced a 160-pound weight loss in FA. I have come to believe that “practicing these principles in all […]

Besides Being Fat, I Had Another Problem; I Could Not Live LIfe

At my first FA meeting I saw 50 people in the room who were living life in normal-sized bodies. They […]

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