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No More Nighttime Eating – Thank you, OA!

Although I never admitted to this before coming to Overeaters Anonymous, I struggled for decades with uncontrollable nighttime eating.

Recovery from compulsive eating and sugar addiction was but a far-fetched dream for the vast majority of my life. It Read more

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My OA Weight Release Journey: Happily Ever After?

“And they lived happily ever-after.”

I grew up on fanciful fairytales and the happy-endings of Disney movies. How many of them ended with that famous one-liner?

 “And they lived happily ever after.”

In coming into OA (after years Read more

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Comparing Weight Loss Drugs to OA’s Twelve Steps

You’ve likely noticed the multitude of news headlines and social media posts regarding “easy” and “dramatic” weight loss resulting from “a simple weekly injection,” along with the promise of that injection being made available “in the near future” as Read more

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