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Welcome to this qualification meeting. I’m a food addict from California, and I’m your leader for this session. It’s good to be here today. Earlier this morning, I was thinking not about what I wanted to say, but about some of the things that have happened in my life that brought me here. I’ve had […]

This meeting is being sponsored by the FA general service organization for the distinct purpose of creating recordings for the FA CD library. I’m really excited to be here. This is the fourth FA conference, and I’ve been lucky enough to attend all four. This is definitely a little overwhelming, and I’m really excited to

Welcome to this qualification meeting. I am a food addict from Pennsylvania, and I’m your leader for this hour. After a moment of silence, please join me in the Serenity Prayer. I’ve been thinking about this opportunity to come and qualify. A few years ago, I was on a committee to rename recordings when people’s

I am extraordinarily grateful to be standing here doing service for this program, and to be able to say with great humility that I am 16 years away from sugar, flour, and compulsively using food as a drug. I have been in the same body size all these years, which in itself is an unbelievable

Welcome to this qualification meeting. I am a food addict from Northern California.I love being reminded in every meeting of what it was like, what happened, and what it is like today, because when I came to this program, the first meeting I went to gave me hope. I went home and told my wife

I am 54 years old. I came into the program a little over six years ago. I had a couple of breaks, and in two weeks, I will have six years of back-to-back abstinence, God willing. I am deeply grateful for the life I have today and especially for these recordings. When I first came

Why do I come all this way to these conventions? I find it hard to even find the words to describe it. It’s about seeing that long-term recovery is possible for any food addict, including someone like me who was genuinely suicidal and had no way out. Seeing so many people put this program into

I am food addict from California. I came to FA about seven and a half years ago. I first heard about it when I was living in Alaska, where I was raised. I had no idea at the time that I was a food addict, but I couldn’t stop thinking about it. A few days

When I was asked to speak today, I went to look for my pictures and couldn’t find them. I had to go back and look at them, and it was really hard. After I got my 90 days, I didn’t want to look at those pictures. I went to where we kept them, opened the

I’m grateful to be here today, and I’m grateful to be abstinent another day at a time. My story is one of a good childhood but also one of frustration, like many people have, and a life of contented sobriety today that I’m very grateful for. Coming into the program gave me an opportunity to