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Looking back on my recovery in FA, I came in in May of 2003. I was 35 years old. My top weight was 420 pounds. I didn’t know what to expect, but I knew I needed help. I never knew there was help like this out here. Before FA, I never tried diets. I didn’t […]

I can’t even tell you how grateful I am to be here, to be abstinent, to be thin, to not be eating one day at a time, and to not be drugging and drinking and doing all the other things I used to do. I’ll tell you a little bit about where I was, what

I am very grateful, and I have a special affinity for these 12 Step tapes. When I came into the FA program five and a half years ago, the closest person with 90 days lived about 3,500 miles from me. These tapes were my lifeline. There were only about 10 tapes then, and my sponsor

I can’t believe I’m here today. This is as far from what I thought I’d be doing six years ago. I still pinch myself at every meeting to make sure this is real. I’m so grateful to be a food addict—grateful to know it, accept it, and work this program like my life depends on

I’m here to tell my story. I’m a little nervous, but it begins when I was young, so that’s where I’ll start. I’m 58 years old now. I came into this program when I was 47. I’m five-foot-three, and today I weigh 115 pounds. My highest weight was 181 — a number I only saw

 I came to these rooms honestly, although years ago I never would have considered myself a food addict. I could say I was a compulsive overeater, but “food addict” felt different—like an identity rather than a behavior. Over the ten years I’ve been here, I’ve come to accept that I am a food addict.