Over time, it became clear that the program of the "90-day meetings" was distinctive from that of OA. These meetings were popularly called or criticized as "90-day meetings". The meetings were united by a shared definition of abstinence the requirement that speakers at each meeting have a minimum of 90 days of continuous abstinence the practice of doing the Twelve Steps in AWOL groups and the belief that overeating, under-eating, bulimia, and other food-related, self-destructive behaviors are symptoms of the disease of addiction. At that time, in the Chelsea, Massachusetts, area several OA meetings began to embrace a set of distinctive practices. In the early 1980s, the FA program began to take form within the context of Overeaters Anonymous (OA), another twelve step program. Meetings are open to all FA members and those who are interested in learning about the program for themselves or for others whom they think might find FA helpful. Members attend three meetings each week and those with 90 days of abstinence from food addiction share at a group level. Meetings break the isolation that is part of the disease of food addiction and provide the opportunity for newcomers and members to learn from abstinent speakers who share their experience, strength, and hope. MeetingsįA Meetings are central to the FA program of recovery. Sponsors share their program up to the level of their own experience. Sponsors are FA members who are committed to abstinence and to living the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions to the best of their ability. FA defines abstinence as weighed and measured meals with nothing in between, no flour, no sugar and the avoidance of any individual binge foods. The problem can be arrested a day at a time by the action of weighing and measuring our food and abstaining completely from all flour and sugar. FA believes food addicts have an allergy to flour, sugar and quantities that sets up an uncontrollable craving. Abstinence is simple and clear, but it is difficult to sustain continuously over the course of a lifetime. Abstinence is a planned, disciplined way of eating that leads to the addict's release from food cravings, obsession, and self-abuse. Ībstinence in FA is the parallel of sobriety in A.A. Overeating, under-eating or self-starvation, bulimia (including exercise bulimia), and extreme obsession with weight or food are among the symptoms of this addiction. The manifestations of food addiction vary. As is the case with other addictions, food addiction involves physical craving and an ever-increasing dependence upon and struggle with a substance (food). įood addiction is defined in FA as "an illness of the mind, body, and spirit for which there is no cure". In 2012, FA published Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous.
As of 2011, the organization consisted of over 500 local groups and over 4000 members in 6 countries, Australia, Canada, Germany, New Zealand, United Kingdom, and the United States.
įA was established in 1998 by former members of Overeaters Anonymous. The program offers the hope of long-term recovery, evidenced by members who have continuously maintained a normal weight and healthy eating for periods of twenty-five or even thirty years. The common denominator uniting members of FA is addiction and a relationship with food that parallels an alcoholic's relationship with alcohol. Some have been obese others have been severely underweight, bulimic, or so obsessed with food or weight that normal life was difficult or impossible. FA members are men and women of all ages. Not to be confused with Food Addicts Anonymous.įood Addicts in Recovery Anonymous ( FA) founded in 1998 is a program of recovery based on the twelve steps of Alcoholics Anonymous.
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