Food Addicts In Recovery Anonymous

This chubby child transformed into a teen party girl in New York City, but cute clothes, college, boyfriends, and world travel did not solve her problems with food. Filled with rage, she used bulimia, smoking, marijuana, and other drugs to stay thin. After finding Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA) at 24, she built a rich and amazing life in recovery. Beating cancer twice, she now walks with her Higher Power and lives a life of gratitude.

Anxious, depressed, and tortured by uncontrollable, self-destructive eating, she went from cheerleader to punk rocker to looking for geographic cures. At age 22 she heard stories of healthy, bright-eyed food addicts in recovery at her first meeting, and she said, “Sign me up.”

I didn’t care about stomach aches, dental cavities, skin breaking out – I just wanted to eat. But finally, with the help of Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA) meetings, I could say, I am a food addict and I need help.

Always feeling she wasn’t enough, this food addict struggled, ate, covered up her eating, tried to exercise it off…and repeat. When she heard people in Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA) talk about food the way she thought about it, she knew she was home.

He started raiding the kitchen at age six and by age eight was a lonely, emotional binge eater. Then, as a young Black man over 300 pounds, a room full of women in Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA) showed him the way to love, peace, serenity, and a healthy body.

Her health was failing fast: asthma, diabetes, multiple medications, physical agony...not to mention depression, isolation, and shame. “Now I ride horses! I ride bikes! Thanks to FA, today I enjoy a life second to none.”

Living a childhood of uncertainty, she constantly sought out food and the people who would give it to her. Nothing stopped her addiction until she got serious about Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA).

Anxious, defensive, and suspicious of everyone, she self-medicated with food. And it worked. . . until it didn’t. When she said, today is the day, Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA) gave her back her life.

From 3rd-grade gym class weigh-in humiliations to multiple serious adulthood health issues, she was afraid of what was coming next. At 22 years old and 280 pounds, addicted to food, cigarettes, and unhealthy relationships, she found Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA).

A former chef with multiple addictions, this food addict hit bottom and found his solution in the tools of Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA) and a life guided by a power greater than himself.