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NEWCOMERS AND RECOVERY
The Recovery
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Have you tried diet clubs, shots, pills, weight doctors, etc., only to achieve
short-lived success followed by further failures-gaining and regaining weight
each time? Have you known the despair of feeling fat? Are you thin now, but
know you are on your way up? Is your eating out of control?
Many people want long-term freedom from their obsession with food and weight
and often use extreme and unhealthy measures to achieve this including purging
and starving. While some are able to achieve this freedom on their own, the
majority struggle most of their lives with the problem.
Overeaters Anonymous (OA) is a program based upon the 12 steps of Alcoholics
Anonymous. Today, it is an organization that has meetings on every continent
and is growing. The Recovery Group and OA Online is not to replace face to
face OA meetings ... but it is another resource for recovery. We treat the
food and weight problem not as a lack of willpower or a moral defect, but as a
disease that can be arrested.
This 12-step program offers a recovery for the physical, emotional and
spiritual aspects of compulsive eating. OA is not a professional diet club.
This organization does not endorse specific food plans or diets.
OA offers a message of hope and recovery from this serious problem. No matter
what size you are when you come to OA, if you want to be free of the obsession
with food, the OA program can work for you. If you want to learn how to live a
life free of compulsive eating, OA can help.
If you are on this web page, there is every possibility that you are
struggling with food issues. There is the possibility that you are in pain
because you're sick and tired of gaining weight and losing it only to gain it
back again. There is the possibility that you are hurting so much that you
are just about ready to give up. And so you've found yourself here.
ARE YOU A COMPULSIVE EATER?
Many of the members of our group have found recovery through their Overeaters Anonymous program. Only you can determine if you have an eating disorder ~ if you are a compulsive eater. Here are a few questions which might help you answer that question. Many members of Overeaters Anonymous and our group have found that they answered yes to many of these questions.
1. Do you eat when you're not hungry?
2. Do you go on eating binges for no apparent reason?
3. Do you have feelings of guilt and remorse after overeating?
4. Do you give too much time and thought to food?
5. Do you look forward with pleasure and anticipation to the time when you can eat alone?
6. Do you plan these secret binges ahead of time?
7. Do you eat sensibly before others and make up for it alone?
8. Is your weight affecting the way you live your life?
9. Have you tried to diet for a week (or longer), only to fall short of your goal?
10. Do you resent others telling you to "use a little willpower" to stop overeating?
11. Despite evidence to the contrary, have you continued to assert that you can diet "on your own" whenever you wish?
12. Do you crave to eat at a definite time, day or night, other than mealtime?
13. Do you eat to escape from worries or trouble?
14. Have you ever been treated for obesity or a food-related condition?
15. Does your eating behavior make you or others unhappy?
IS OA FOR YOU?
Only you can decide that question...no one else can make this decision for you. We who are now in OA have found a way of life which enables us to live without the need for excess food. We believe that compulsive overeating is a progressive illness...one that, like alcoholism and some other illnesses, can be arrested. Remember, there is no shame in admitting you have a problem; the most important thing is to do something about it.
NEWCOMERS AND RECOVERY LOOP
The Recovery Group and OA Online have many recovery loops, online meetings and other services for the compulsive eater. If you are a newcomer, you might find this a strange new world ... and the purpose of this page is to help you adjust to your new surroundings ... to help you speak our language ... the language of recovery.If you are brand new to OA and The Twelve Steps, let us encourage you to join the Newcomers and Recovery Loop. This is a short term loop which will help you to learn about us and see which of our recovery loops is best suited to you.
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NEWCOMERS AND RECOVERY LOOPNEWCOMER ONLINE IRC MEETINGS
In addition to our Newcomers and Recovery loop, we have three one-hour meetings specifically for newcomers. These meetings are hosted by dedicated Trusted Servants who are OA members. They are held on IRC in the #Recovery Meeting Room on the Starchat channel which can be reached by clicking the following button:
Starchat Monday Newcomer Meeting ~ IRC ~ 11:00 Eastern Time
Tuesday Newcomer Meeting ~ IRC ~ 8:00 Eastern Time
Sunday Newcomer Meeting ~ IRC ~ 8:00 Eastern Time
In addition we have OA Online meetings scheduled several times every day and the complete schedule and directions to and instructions for the meetings can be found on our Recovery Meetings Page.
We hope this page is helpful to you and makes your transition to OA Recovery less difficult for you.
What we could never do alone ~
We can do together.
One step at a time
One day at a time.
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