This podcast is produced by Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous™, also known as FA™. FA is a fellowship of individuals who, through shared experience and mutual support, are recovering from the disease of food addiction. Each episode of the podcast highlights one member’s story of recovery.

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Eating to Beat The Band

April 27, 2026

I’m so grateful to be here. I’m grateful to know that I’m a food addict and that there’s a solution for me. I didn’t know that when I came into these rooms, which was in May of 2001. I didn’t know what a food addict was. I’d never heard of it. All I knew at that time was that I used to call myself an alcoholic with food. Because I knew that once I took that first bite, I couldn’t stop. I like to say that I was a fat kid, I was a fat teenager, and I was a fat

Disease of More, More, More

April 20, 2026

I came into the program nearly 10 years ago at age 26, and I weighed about 200 pounds. I’m thankful to have been maintaining a 70-pound weight loss for the past, gosh, about nine and a half years. It took me about six months to lose the weight, and then those inevitable painful months of trying to lose those last few pounds. But I’m very thankful that this is a spiritual, mental, and physical recovery because if I had just come in and lost the weight as I had in the past, I’m sure I would have been too frustrated and

On Solid Ground

April 13, 2026

What I can talk about with my disease is that it started at a young age. I remember being a very young girl and I was overweight as a young girl and I battled weight my whole life with this disease of food addiction. I remember that when I was young, food was just so, so important to me in my life. I remember eating large quantities of food. And I remember feeling different about myself, as though I didn’t quite belong, and lacking confidence. I lacked the ability to get along in the world. And those things I remember

What You'll Hear on the Food Addicts Podcast

"I had no idea why I was eating. But it progressed and progressed and progressed. I found myself at 200 pounds at 30 years old. And I told myself I was fine. But when I got to 250 pounds. I knew I wasn't fine then."

“I don't even know how many calories was in an eight ounce cup of the stuff that I would drink. I needed that jolt of liquid courage that came by way of sugar products and flour products.”

"Diabetes runs in my family. You would think that a person with a history of diabetes would take better care of themselves. But I was operating on the belief that nothing would happen to me. I didn't really think that I consumed a lot of sugar. But in reality, I did. There were no boundaries about around my food."

“Two days of restricting would lead to five days of bingeing and I could never just get off the rollercoaster and eat normally.”

“I was sensitive. And so in order for me to out in the world, I needed to have a suit of armor that was a food. I was one of those eaters that eating all day long. It almost felt like my stomach area was quivering from anxiety unless it had food in it.”

"I didn't know how to diet without hurting myself. I had terrible gastrointestinal distress, which I now know was aspartame poisoning, because you're not supposed to ingest that much artificial sweetener. So I had pain, but I was constantly putting it in my mouth.”