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A Psychic Change

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

I came into FA when I was 22 years old, my life was unmanageable, and I was fat and miserable.

At 58 years old, I believed I had no choice but to die of obesity. I knew I would have

I didn’t come into willingly. I was very angry and full of remorse and resentments. I weighed 347 pounds. However,

My 90th day of abstinence happened to be on one of the biggest food days of the year, Thanksgiving Day.

If not now, when? That was the question that came to mind as I sat alone facing one more “day

I have always been single and independent, and I thought I was “terminally unique.” I came into FA, got abstinent

A few years ago, I left FA for five months after being abstinent for almost six years, and being in

I think I knew I was a food addict before I was willing to accept it. My acceptance came in