In Overeater’s Anonymous we believe in having a food plan and not using the word, “diet”. Our program is three phase: physical, emotional, and spiritual. There are face-to-face meetings and podcasts, and online meetings. These meetings have different formats. We have been working on the nine tools in the previous months.
The nine tools are: a plan of eating, sponsorship, meetings, telephone, writing, literature, an action plan, anonymity, and service as needed. This helps us achieve abstinence. After a time, we can recover from this disease. Let’s remember abstinence and its definition.
“Abstinence is the action of refraining from compulsive eating and compulsive food behaviors while working towards or maintaining healthy body weight. Spiritual, emotional, and physical recovery is the result of living and working the Overeaters Anonymous” program.
Our new tool for this month is Meetings. “There are many types of meetings, but fellowship with other compulsive overeaters is the basis of them all”. We have face-to-face meetings. A new face-to-face meeting has started up in Easton, Pennsylvania area. We have online meetings and podcasts on OA.org website. Some meetings are AA meetings and how they relate to overeater’s anonymous. Some meetings are a step meeting and other meetings use the different literature books.
“Meetings are gatherings of two or more compulsive overeaters who come together to share their personal experience, and the strength and hope OA has given them. There are many types of meetings, but fellowship with other compulsive overeaters is the basis of them all. Meetings give us an opportunity to identify our common problem, confirm our common solution through the Twelve Steps and share the results we receive through this program. In addition to face-to-face meetings, OA offers telephone and online meetings that are useful in breaking down the deadly isolation caused by distance, illness or physical challenges.”
If you need a friend to go to a meeting with, please email me and we will go together or attend the same online meeting.
Source: OA.org
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