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I can still hear the gulls’ screeching cries and smell the salty surf air of that mid-March afternoon on the

Living on the frontier is challenging enough, so when my sponsor strongly suggested that I work the tool of the

I came into FA at the age of 26, weighing 289 pounds (131 kg). I found out about the program

I joined my first AWOL ( a 12 step study of the steps in sequence) after I’d been in FA

Before finding FA, my first reaction to life was to soothe with food. It didn’t matter if I was tired,

My wife had prepared and weighed my salad and said, “Here ya go.” It was time for me to add

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

I have struggled with food for 50-plus years. I wasn’t a fat kid, but I thought I was. I compared

There is a secret that lives within me: my addiction to food; the uncontrollable desire to overeat. The foods that I