Yes. Go to our Find a Meeting page for information and assistance in finding an online or telephone meeting.
How much does Overeaters Anonymous cost?
Overeaters Anonymous (OA), a fellowship based on the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous, is one of the oldest and most accessible resources for people with eating disorders, and it’s free.
Who goes to Overeaters Anonymous?
In Overeaters Anonymous, you’ll find members who are extremely overweight, even morbidly obese, moderately overweight, average weight, underweight, still maintaining periodic control over their eating behavior, or totally unable to control their compulsive eating.
Is Overeaters Anonymous for anorexia?
Overeaters Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women from all walks of life who meet in order to help solve a common problem – compulsive overeating, which includes obesity, anorexia and bulimia The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop eating compulsively.
What is the OA diet plan?
OA has created a Plan of Eating to help people recover from compulsive eating behaviors. The plan aims to identify specific eating patterns and guide healthy eating decisions. The plan is individualized. It doesn’t provide any specific suggestions for foods, calorie totals, or other restrictions.
Are there alternatives to Overeaters Anonymous?
Greysheeters Anonymous (GSA) is similar to OA, except they provide a meal plan that involves weighing and measuring three meals per day. While they’re not as widespread as OA, they offer phone and Skype meetings. Other groups include Food Addicts Anonymous (FAA) and Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA).
What is the difference between OA and EDA?
In OA, food addicts are required to abstain from specific foods that may be triggering and to adopt specific disciplines around eating. In EDA, any rigidity around food is avoided. Members are devoted to helping each other build more resilient relationships with themselves, others and food.
How long do OA meetings last?
Meetings usually last between one and one and a half hours. Before and after the meeting, feel free to ask questions and pick up some OA literature to help you learn about the program.
What is an OA meeting like?
We gather around a table or in a circle of chairs. Our meetings follow a format (like a script) that a volunteer leader reads. The format usually includes reading the Overeaters Anonymous Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions. Other OA literature may also be read.
What is a GREY sheeter?
Distributed by Overeaters Anonymous to its members until 1986, the Grey Sheet Diet was a meal plan that received its name from the grey-colored paper on which it was printed.
Is OA free?
There are no dues or fees for members; we are self- supporting through our own contributions, neither soliciting nor accepting outside donations. OA is not affiliated with any public or private organization, political movement, ideology, or religious doctrine; we take no position on outside issues.
What are the symptoms of overeating?
- Eating unusually large amounts of food in a specific amount of time, such as over a two-hour period.
- Feeling that your eating behavior is out of control.
- Eating even when you’re full or not hungry.
- Eating rapidly during binge episodes.
- Eating until you’re uncomfortably full.
- Frequently eating alone or in secret.
What is AA and OA?
Founded in 1960, the OA approach is based on the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), which focuses on physical, emotional, and spiritual elements. According to their bylaws and policies, the only requirement for OA membership is the desire to stop eating compulsively.
Is Overeaters Anonymous religious?
OA is not a religious organization. OA members are people of many religious faiths as well as atheists and agnostics. The OA recovery program is based on acceptance of certain spiritual principles.
What is an OA group?
Welcome to Overeaters Anonymous (OA)—a community of people who through shared experience, strength, and hope are recovering from unhealthy relationships with food and body image.
What are the nine tools of Overeaters Anonymous?
We use these Tools—a plan of eating, sponsorship, meetings, telephone, writing, literature, action plan, anonymity, and service—on a regular basis, to help us achieve and maintain abstinence and recovery from our disease.
What does abstinence mean in Overeaters Anonymous?
What is abstinence in Overeaters Anonymous? Current Definition: Abstinence: The action of refraining from compulsive eating and compulsive food behaviors while working towards or maintaining a healthy body weight.
What is dignity choice?
Dignity of Choice – The right of a person to make an informed decision to engage in experiences of his. or her own choosing, which are necessary for personal growth and development.
What is an OA footsteps meeting?
We are a virtual intergroup of Overeaters Anonymous, and welcome you to join us! Welcome Home! Please scroll down for our weekly Meetings Schedule, and feel free to reach out to [email protected] if you have any questions or inquiries.
How do you deal with food addiction?
- Decide that you want to change.
- Precisely articulate what triggers your cravings.
- Make a meal plan.
- Find yourself a distraction tactic.
- Write out and regularly re-read your goals.
- Don’t keep temping food in the house.
- Get you’re family & friends on board.
- Keep a food diary.
What is the purpose of Overeaters Anonymous?
OA’s primary purpose is to abstain from compulsive eating and compulsive food behaviors and to carry the message of recovery through the Twelve Steps of OA to those who still suffer.
How do you eat a program?
HOW-OA is for people seeking a structured program. HOW has a basic weighed and measured food plan with abstinence from sugars and refined flour. Modification of the food plan by health care providers is acceptable. A sponsor is required prior to receiving the HOW food plan.
How do I sponsor an OA?
There are no specific qualifications for sponsorship in OA. Although some members insist sponsors should have completed the first three steps, or must have completed their step four inventory, there are no such official requirements. Sponsors share their program up to the level of their own experience.
What book does OA use?
OA’s keystone book-The Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions of Overeaters Anonymous, Second Edition-is updated and improved, twenty-eight years after is first publication.
What should I expect at my first OA meeting?
You’ll meet others like you with a simple first name introduction and be genuinely welcomed. Get yourself settled with the group to enjoy various readings, members sharing their journeys, and learning more about OA. Participate as much or as little as you want.