Overeaters Anonymous

Provides a detailed explanation of the principles of Overeaters Anonymous and serves as a guide for those of us living the programme of OA who want to spread the message of recovery to others.

"The Overeaters Anonymous Twelve-Step program allows compulsive overeaters around to experience what OA's founder calls "a joyous appreciation of life without excess food ..."--Publisher description.

The meditations in Food for Thought focus on our need for support, compassion, understanding, and acceptance of our compulsive eating. Each daily reading provides encouragement for turning to our Higher Power for comfort and addresses the steps and concerns that help us in our recovery. These meditations help recovering women and men begin to benefit from a physically, emotionally, and spiritually balanced life.

"How did Overeaters Anonymous begin? Why were our Steps rewritten? When was abstinence introduced? What was the carbohydrate controversy? Where did I Put My Hand in Yours originate? How did the OA Lifeline get its name? Discover answers to these questions and other fascinating facts in the pages of OA's first history book. A cofounder, who has kept coming back since the very first 1960 OA meeting describes it all: what we were like, what happened, what we're like now, what we hope for our future. Beyond Our Wildest Dreams is absorbing and inspirational, a reading treat for every member of Overeaters Anonymous and for all those who encourage and support compulsive overeaters in their quest for recovery."--Back cover

The third edition of Overeaters Anonymous, OA's Brown Book, includes forty never-before-published, personal stories by recovering OA members from around the world the founder's story the complete text of ""Our Invitation to You"" an all-new Appendix,""The Role of a Plan of Eating in Recovery from Compulsive Eating"" by a dietitian specializing in addictive and compulsive eating disorders the book's original three appendices,""A Disease of the Mind,"" ""A Disease of the Body,"" and ""A Disease of the Spirit"" and a new Forward by an eating-disorder treatment professional