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Dream Come True

When I first came to FA, I was skeptical when people went to the podium and shared about how GOD […]

Beyond Bulimia

When I weighed 212 pounds (about 96 kilograms) at age 17-18 years of age, I told myself I would never […]

Clarifying Power

Since coming into FA 11 years ago, my relationships have undergone many adjustments, all for the better. Prior to FA, […]

Shaping Up and Shipping Out

Two months after finding FA, I went on a Caribbean cruise with some women from an organization to which I […]

Darkest Before the Dawn

Have I always been a food addict? I do not know. I do know that as a scrawny little kid, […]

Finally Living Life

I desperately wanted to have friends, but I just didn’t know how to connect with the other kids, so I pretended that my isolation was my choice. This was how I lived my whole life. I told myself that anyone who wanted to be friends would have to come to me.

Going the Distance

I had met with my family doctor. I told her I thought that I had arthritis in my knees, because I could not raise myself from the floor to a chair without pushing myself up on a chair.

Financial Responsibility

I have never been fantastic about money. I would prefer to hoard it, ignore it, covet it, and complain about […]

From the Inside Out

My father and another man had drowned seven months before I was born. My mother was diabetic and frequently hospitalized […]

A Psychic Change

I had lost almost 135 pounds. Then, sitting at one of my committed FA meetings, I obsessed about food to […]

Jobless Not Hopeless

Through college I struggled with doing FA and maintaining contented abstinence. I so often let my diseased negative thoughts grab […]

Tight Squeeze

When I had my first daughter almost seven years ago, I was not in recovery. When I conceived her, I […]

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