FA has proven to be an effective, long-term solution to food addiction for many food addicts, whether they be undereaters, bulimics, overeaters, or otherwise food-obsessed. Here is what some FA members have to say:

Our Office Has a New Location and a New Phone! 

As of 9/15/07:
FA World Service Office  
400 W. Cummings Park Suite 1700
Woburn, MA 01801
New Phone: (781) 932-6300

I remember the summer of 2002. My weight was on the way up again. This time I had started at 230 pounds in my yoyo and was up to 252 and gaining about a pound a day. It was totally out of control. It had never been this bad before. I thought there was no solution. I had tried everything – every magazine diet, every book diet, every diet that cost hundreds and thousands of dollars at this center and that center, acupuncture, acupressure, hypnosis. I called a friend who me she heard of a new program for food addiction. She also told me she had 90 days of freedom from addictive eating in this program and couldn’t believe it herself. She said there was hope.

That's all I needed to hear. I needed to hear that there was something different out there - something that gave someone else, just like me, hope. And so I got a sponsor and started my recovery in FA.

It's been four years now. I've been in a size 8 for the past three years. It's an absolute miracle. Life hasn't been easy during these past 4 years. I've experienced unemployment, changed careers, acquired a master's degree in education and experienced the sadness of the death of my mother. And I made it through everything without turning to food. What a miracle. This program has saved my life and I am truly grateful - plus it feels really good to be able to buy end of season items and know that I'll be able to wear them next year!

Life has happened to me during the nine years that I have been free from addictive eating in FA. Life happened before I came into this program, too. The major difference is that today I don't have to eat addictively. Addictive eating just gave me two things to deal with-life's events plus the shame I felt about not being able to control how I ate.

Over these past nine years, my mom died, I got divorced, I bought a new home, my daughter went away to college, I got a new job, I remarried, she graduated college, and I retired! FA taught me that, in anger or joy, in sadness or confusion, no matter what, I didn't have to eat over any of those events. Today I am happy to say that I am a member of FA.

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