Many Symptoms, One Solution

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As we engage in Overeaters Anonymous’ Twelve-Step recovery program for compulsive overeating, we discover several beneficial tools that aid us in our journey. Consistently utilizing these tools has helped us achieve and maintain abstinence as well as overcome our illness.

For many of us, the key to abstaining from compulsive eating lies in adopting one or more of OA’s nine recovery tools. These tools enable us to integrate the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions into our lives more effectively.

In OA, you’ll find members who:

Have complete inability to manage their compulsive eating
Struggle with severe weight issues, possibly even reaching morbid obesity
Deal with moderate overweight problems
Maintain an average weight
Struggle with being underweight
Experience intermittent success in controlling their eating behaviors

OA members exhibit diverse food behaviours, such as:

Obsession with body weight, shape, and size
Binge eating and grazing
Preoccupation with reducing diets, starvation, and excessive exercise
Misuse of diuretics, laxatives, and other weight control methods
Chewing and spitting out food, and use of diet pills and medical interventions
Inability to stop eating certain foods after starting
Constant preoccupation with food and fantasies about it
Vulnerability to quick-weight loss schemes and using food as a reward or comfort

We have different symptoms, but a common bond.

As we cannot control our relationship with food and our lives have become unmanageable, members of OA seek and find a solution in the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions. Despite the diversity of our symptoms, we share a common disease that can be overcome by living this program one day at a time.

If you feel you are one of us, we welcome you with open arms.

Use this link to purchase the pamphlet: Many Symptoms, One Solution