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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 […]

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

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

I am a food addict from California.  I am so grateful to be alive in this body today. I had the honor of eating breakfast with someone yesterday who reminded me how to remember what it was like and why I’m here. So I spent some time this morning in quiet time thinking about what

Hello. Welcome to this qualification meeting. I am a food addict from Tennessee, 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,

This meeting is being sponsored by the FA New England 12-Step Committee for the distinct purpose of creating tapes for the 12-Step Committee Tape Library. Those who wish, please join me in a moment of silence and the Serenity Prayer. God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change

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

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

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,

I’m from Geneva, New York, and I’m a grateful recovering food addict. Glad to be here today. I talked my family into getting together with some relatives in Boston, partly so I could participate in this qualathon. I’ve always wanted to be at one. I don’t know why I wanted to make a tape because