Yuma Overeaters Anonymous - OA

Yuma Overeaters Anonymous - OA We are a support group dedicated to helping each other to recover from the disease of compulsive eati

06/22/2026

"We will never be abstinent from compulsive overeating as long as we just "Talk about It". We will forever sit on the sidelines and long for what others have, feeling flawed and inadequate ourselves! Abstinence is an ACTION. To have what "they" have, we have to be WILLING. We have to reach out. We have to ACCEPT. We have to find out, and do, what "they" did. And if we see someone drowning in our midst, too overwhelmed by life to utter the word, HELP, we can throw out the lifeline.
Does abstinence come overnight?? For some, yes; but for many of us gaining it is a process."
--Abstinence, page 71

06/21/2026

"As compulsive overeaters, we relied on food to pick us up, calm us down, console us, excite us, help us, and sustain us. Since food was INADEQUATE to do all of these things, we had to eat more and more until we became physically and emotionally ADDICTED!
RECOVERY from our disease requires that dependency on food be replaced by dependency on a Higher Power. Only God, as each of us understands Him, is capable of supporting us at all times and in all situations. Food simply will not work! If we are not controlled by our Higher Power, we will be controlled by our addiction to compulsive overeating!
At first we find it difficult to rely on a Power we cannot see. Our materialistic orientation makes us distrustful of things that are of the spirit. Gradually we come to believe as we witness the work of God through OA. . Reliance on God is our strength!
-- Food for Thought, (10/18)

06/16/2026

" Now what am I going to do about it? When I stopped living in the PROBLEM and started living in the ANSWER, the problem went away! And the problem is no longer a problem for me today (in that sense), in the sense that staying abstinent is the easiest thing I do today. The answer seems to be the ACCEPTANCE of my disease. When I accepted the fact that I was a compulsive overeater, and that I couldn't eat like other people eat, I started living the answer and started living life the way ABSTINENT compulsive eaters live!
And when I started following you people and doing the things YOU do and NOT doing the things you DON'T do, I no longer had a food problem!"
--Dr. Paul O, Acceptance, Doctor. Alcoholic, Addict. His Alcoholics Anonymous Story. History of Recovery
PARAPHRASED. Page 62

06/14/2026

"I argued and argued in those first meetings but I really had no place else to go. So I finally SURRENDERED to the suggestions. Surrender for me wasn't giving up. It was DECIDING to cooperate with a new set of ideas about my eating, thinking, and believing. I got abstinent by being WILLING to admit myself to the METAPHORICAL Overeaters Anonymous hospital and say, " Okay, I GIVE UP. Tell me what to do."
They told me I was now in a race.. what race? It was the race between the eventual decline of my willpower and the acquisition of a new Power that would come from working the 12 Steps. Willpower and the role-models in the rooms helped me follow my food plan initially, but other OA members said willpower would eventually run out and had to be replaced by another kind of Power. I didn't know what they were talking about but my PAIN gave me the WILLINGNESS to Follow Direction!"
--Overeaters Anonymous, (2nd Edition) page 115

06/11/2026

"But if He Is sufficient unto all my needs, there's nothing to worry about either, so I've got you both ways! Got you both ways because all I have to do is act like His kid, and prove that I am. And it's written like this, " ACT as though I am and I willl be, says the Lord.". Act as though I AM and I WILL be! So that's all I have to do; to act as if it WERE true and prove that it IS true, that's what we do in this program of ours. There's nothing else to do. There's NOTHING else to do, because we're already lost. We've already tried with human power!"
--A New Pair of Glasses, by Chuck "C" pages 112, 113

06/10/2026

Please take note of a few danger symptoms commonly seen in compulsive eaters:
1. Acceptance of that first compulsive bite as we minimize the knowledge of the physical and mental suffering of the past by saying,"This time it will be different!"
2. The continued use of food to escape the realities of life.
3. The acute physical condition we reach and the continued suffering we endure from uncontrolled eating.
4. The asinine resentments that clogged our minds.
There is no point in deceiving ourselves regarding the fate of the compulsive overeater--if he continues to "use" food.
It is now our privilege to draw on the help of a Power greater than ourselves to bring us to our senses!
--Excerpts taken from The Little Red Book (paraphrased) page 29

06/09/2026

"My sponsor was trying to explain how abstinence was achieved:
"You need to pray for the WILLINGNESS to place abstinence above the short-term gratification of food? Abstinence is a GIFT given by God. ASK God for abstinence, and it will be given to you."
I went home and prayed to God for the willingness to become abstinent. Apparently God was out of abstinence! I wasn't given the gift.
After reporting God's failure to grant my request, my sponsor sat me down to explain the facts of Life. She read," Pray to God but continue to row to shore." She explained to me what that line meant. I wasn't supposed to just pray to God and expect results. I was supposed to pray for the ENERGY to be abstinent and put EFFORT into the process! I was to be an ACTIVE partner. She quoted another saying, "Pray as though everything depended on God, and ACT as though everything depended on you."
She told me that prayer would work IF I put muscle into it. To protect myself from the impulse of breaking my abstinence, prayer was most effective if done away from the food. I had to put the fork down first and THEN enlist God's help. Somehow, The desire to be abstinent was stronger when my hands were folded in my lap instead of wrapped around the fork!"
--A New Beginning, page 101

06/03/2026

" My path has been clearly defined by three moderate and balanced meals per day-- Free of second helpings snacks or binge foods. I see the first bite beyond this prescription as a way to reactivate the eating disorder. I avoid it at all costs!
To access the Power, I need to stay on course! I have had to turn to the Steps of our program. I don't have the necessary Power to adhere to an eating plan anymore than I can stick to a diet. The solution has been to turn to a Higher Power, A Power beyond my limitations!
With every fiber of my being, I believe in, and count on, the help of this Power to keep me safe from that FIRSTcompulsive bite! To be sure, I do my footwork: meetings, reading, phone calls, writing and the study and USE of the Twelve Steps! Through this effort on my part, the HONEST DESIRE to stay in RECOVERY, my Higher Power walks me through my everyday life-- safe from the disease that was ravaging my body and soul!"
--Seeking the Spiritual Path, page 61

06/01/2026

"OA says that, if you DON'T TAKE the first compulsive bite(!!), you won't overeat! It is that first extra bite that gets us into trouble. The first bite may be as harmless as a piece of lettuce, BUT when eaten between meals and not part of our daily plan, it invariably leads to another bite. And another, And Another. And we have lost control. And there is no stopping!
It is the FIRST compulsive bite that breaks abstinence! When we take it, we cheat ourselves and fall back into SLAVERY to our appetites. To RATIONALIZE by saying that just a little deviation won't make any difference. Is like saying that someone is just a little bit pregnant!
All we have to give up is the FIRST compulsive bite, then we do not have to worry about the rest of them. SIMPLE! Once we decide not to take the first one, our problem is solved!
Abstinence is a lifeboat
It is possible to stay afloat in a lifeboat...as long as we do not jump out by taking the first compulsive bite.
--Food for Thought (01/07)

05/31/2026

"When we fall into the TRAP of compulsive overeating, It is as though we are driven by some malevolent diabolical force against which we are POWERLESS! We know with our minds that we should stop eating but, by ourselves, we cannot. A binge may start out pleasantly enough-- just a taste here and there--but it eventually becomes TORTURE.
Because we know what we are doing to ourselves, we feel guilty while we are bingeing. We hate ourselves because we cannot stop. The more we eat, the more uncomfortable we become, physically and mentally. Clothes constrict and we are STUFFED and BLOATED. Our minds s begin to race along Old, Negative and Irrational tracks. Anyone who gets in our way can be the object of our anger. We lose control, We are separated from our Higher Power, and we are in HELL.
Let us not forget every day that the first compulsive bite opens the gates of HELL"
-- Food for Thought (01/13)

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