Anonymous Recipes for Foods ( FA ) is a recovery program based on twelve steps Alcoholics Anonymous. FA members are men and women of all ages. Some have been obese; others are very short of weight, bulimia, or so obsessed with food or weight that normal life is difficult or impossible. Common denominations that unite members of the FA are addictions and relationships with foods that align with alcoholic relationships with alcohol. The program offers long-term recovery expectations, evidenced by members who continue to maintain normal weight and healthy eating for a period of twenty-five or even thirty years.
FA was founded in 1998 by former members of Overeaters Anonymous. In 2011, the organization comprised more than 500 local groups and more than 4,000 members in 6 countries, Australia, Canada, Germany, New Zealand, the UK and the United States. In 2012, the FA published Food Addicts in Anonymous Recovery .
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Definition
Food addiction is defined in the FA as "a disease of mind, body, and spirit that has no cure". As with other addictions, food addiction involves increasing physical desire and dependence on and struggling with substances (food). Manifestations of food addiction vary. Excessive eating, lack of food or hunger, bulimia (including bulimia), and severe obsessions or extreme foods are one of the symptoms of this addiction.
Abstinence in the FA is a parallel of serenity in A.A. Abstinence is a planned and disciplined way of eating that leads to the release of addicts from food cravings, obsessions, and self-mortification. Abstinence is simple and clear, but it is difficult to maintain it constantly for a lifetime. The FA believes food addicts have allergies to flour, sugar and amounts that form uncontrollable desires. The problem can be captured one day at a time by the action of weighing and measuring our food and not entirely from flour and sugar. The FA defines abstinence as a weighed and measured food with no in between, no flour, no sugar and avoids any individual liquor binge.
Sponsors are members of the FA who are committed not to abstain and undergo Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions with their best abilities. Sponsors share their programs to their own level of experience.
Meeting
FA meeting is the center of the FA recovery program. Meetings break down the isolation that is part of the food addiction disease and provide newcomers and members the opportunity to learn from incompetent speakers who share their experiences, strengths and hopes. Members attend three meetings each week and those with 90 days of dietary restrictions at the group level. Meetings are open to all FA members and those interested in learning about the program for themselves or for others that they think may find FA beneficial.
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Literature
The FA Book, Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous explains the possibility of a long-term, continuous recovery from food addiction offered by Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA), a program based on Twelve Steps pioneered by Alcoholics. Anonymous. The book begins with a description of the experience of food addiction and its symptoms, which can include obesity, extreme thinness, bulimia, exercise, or normal weight maintained at the expense of a debilitating obsession. The bulk of the book consists of individual accounts of food addiction and FA recovery, some of the members with more than thirty years of continuous, successful one day at a time. These volumes include doctor's perspective, chapters for family and friends, and discussion of each of the Twelve Steps. In addition, the FA publishes several pamphlets, a periodic known as connection and produces audio recordings of successful members.
Demographics and results
The FA survey conducted in 2011 showed that 80% of the members had lost 25 lbs. or more, and from them, 50% are on the weight of their goals. At that time, 33% of FA's members recovered for 13 months from food addiction, and 22% had between 3 and 30 years without returning to food addiction.
History
In the early 1980s, the FA program began to take shape in the context of Overeaters Anonymous (OA), another twelve-step program. At that time, in Chelsea, Massachusetts, and beyond, several OA meetings began to embrace a set of special practices. The meetings are unified by a common definition of abstinence; the requirement that the speaker at each meeting have at least 90 days of continuous abstinence; the practice of performing the Twelve Steps in the AWOL group; and the belief that overeating, lack of eating, bulimia, and other food-related and self-destructive behaviors are symptoms of addiction. These meetings are popularly called or criticized as "90-day meetings".
Over time, it became clear that the program developed at the "90-day meeting" was different from OA. Furthermore, the program has grown. Members moved from the Boston area to Michigan, Florida, Texas, New York, California, Australia, and Germany, took their recovery with them and held meetings in the communities where they lived. In 1998, a small group gathered to discuss the possibility of forming a separate program. "Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous" was launched later that year. The organization was legally established in 1998.
In May 1998, the FA consisted of 18 meetings with about 177 members. In 2001, the program has grown to 122 meetings, with nearly 1,000 members. The first business convention, which was held to coordinate the FA services to new arrivals, took place that year.
Organizational and financial structure
Food Addicts in Anonymous Recovery, Inc. is an umbrella entity that supports FA meeting and individual groups around the world. It is internally known as "WSI" (for World Service Incorporated). WSI is chaired by thirteen elected guardians (FA members) and is headquartered in Woburn, Massachusetts. The FA meetings are also supported and unified by the smaller, unrelated regional (intergroup) regional associations and regional affiliations (chapters).
Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous, Inc. is a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit charity organization primarily funded through contributions made by members of the FA. Acceptance of wills or donations from non-members, outside organizations, and anonymous donors is prohibited. Individual members are limited to donations or testaments of not more than $ 2,000 in a year.
See also
- Addiction recovery group
- Feeding disorders
- List of groups of twelve steps
- Self-help group for mental health
References
External links
- Food Addicts in Anonymous Recovery
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