What is OA?

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. It treats 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.

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.

OA offers a message of hope and recovery for 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.

OA is not a diet or calories club.  There are no dues or fees for membership.   OA is a Fellowship of men and women who come together to share their experience, strength, and hope with one another in order to overcome their compulsion with food.

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