Overeaters Anonymous -
we offer hope of recovery.

In Overeaters Anonymous, you’ll find members who are extremely overweight, even morbidly obese; moderately overweight; average weight; underweight; still maintaining periodic control over their eating behaviour; or totally unable to control their compulsive eating. OA members experience many different patterns of food behaviours. These “symptoms” are as varied as our membership. Among them are:

• eating binges or grazing

• preoccupation with reducing diets

• starving

• laxative or diuretic abuse

• excessive exercise

• inducing vomiting after eating

• chewing and spitting out food

• use of diet pills, shots and other medical interventions to control weight

• inability to stop eating certain foods after taking the first bite

• fantasies about food

• vulnerability to quick weight-loss schemes

• constant preoccupation with food

• using food as a reward or comfort

Our symptoms may vary, but we share a common bond: we are powerless over food and our lives are unmanageable. This common problem has led those in OA to seek and find a common solution in the Twelve Steps, the Twelve Traditions and nine tools of Overeaters Anonymous.

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To contact us;

email: oahamigsecretary@gmail.com

or ask a question using our enquiry form on the contact page. 

If you are new to OA or you are a healthcare professional, you can also visit oa.org for more information about how OA can help you.