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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Practice Being Satisfied

June 8, 2026

This transcript is produced by Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous, also known as FA. FA is a program based on the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous. It is free and open to anyone who wants to stop eating addictively. The following is one FA member’s story of recovery. The opinions expressed here are those of the individual member and do not represent FA as a whole. If you are new to or uncertain about FA, we encourage you to listen to several stories to learn more about what the program offers. Hello. Welcome to the qualification meeting. I’m a food addict from Florida,

The Twelve Steps Saved My Life

June 6, 2026

This transcript is produced by Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous, also known as FA. FA is a program based on the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous. It is free and open to anyone who wants to stop eating addictively. The following is one FA member’s story of recovery. The opinions expressed here are those of the individual member and do not represent FA as a whole. If you are new to or uncertain about FA, we encourage you to listen to several stories to learn more about what the program offers. I’m nervous, so I guess that’s good. In the Big

A Life Transformed

May 25, 2026

Hello, welcome to the qualification meeting. I am a food addict from California, and I am your leader for this hour. After a moment of silence, will you please join me in the Serenity Prayer? God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. So, I’m from California and really happy to be here. I am definitely a food addict. I definitely qualify as a food addict, and I will tell you a little bit about myself, what it was like, and what it’s

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.”