Find Success in Overcoming Compulsive Cravings by Finding Support!
'Overeaters Anonymous' (OA) is a twelve-step program offering a program
of recovery from compulsive overeating and other eating
disorders using the twelve steps and twelve traditions as interpreted
by OA. Participants need not be overweight in fact, some OA members
are bulimic or anorexic. Like other twelve-step groups, OA groups typically
meet weekly. More women than men participate in this program in most locations.
Like members of Alcoholics Anonymous, members of OA generally hold that they have
an illness of the body an abnormal reaction to certain foods and/or eating
behaviors which creates uncontrollable cravings, similar to the alcoholic's cravings
and an illness of the mind an obsession of the mind which continues
to find reasons for returning to those foods and eating behaviors (reasons ranging
from severe emotional upsets to rationalizations like "I've been good in the last
hour/week/year"). This dual problem is the explanation for what is commonly
called "yo-yo dieting" the tendency to lose weight and then to gain the
weight back again.
Unlike members of AA, however, OA members do not all have one specific ingredient
which causes cravings. Experience in OA has shown that different members develop
cravings from different kinds of foods or eating behaviors, and therefore each member
has to develop his or her own plan of eating. OA uses the concept of "abstinence
from compulsive eating" rather than "sobriety"; a plan of eating would ideally,
therefore, eliminate those foods and/or eating behaviors which cause cravings,
which provides the member with abstinence.
Aside from this one difference, OA functions just like any other twelve-step program.
It was founded on January 19, 1960, in Los Angeles, by two individuals, one
of whom, Rozanne S., has remained in the program since its inception and is
considered the co-founder of OA. Its headquarters are currently in Albuquerque,
New Mexico. There are approximately 6500 meetings in 60 countries, and its
estimated membership is around 70,000. There is extensive OA literature available. OA members also use AA literature.
Adapted from: Overeaters Anonymous
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overeaters_Anonymous)
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