FA and Bulimia

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The free 12-Step program of Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA) helps bulimics stop bingeing and purging

Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA) address symptoms of Bulimia including:

• Eating large quantities of food (bingeing)
• "Getting rid of" food eaten (purging)
• Vomiting
• Taking laxatives
• Over-exercising
• Obsessing about weight or food

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"Binging and purging put me in the infirmary, but today I no longer hurt myself with food."

I remember always having a feeling that I needed to be filled. I tried to fill that hole with food. When I binged, I felt as if I was in another world, as though time had stopped—and for a moment I was soothed.

As my disease progressed, I would binge on huge quantities of food, throw it all up, and then go back to the refrigerator and start the process all over again.

I became isolated from my friends, and eventually stopped running track, going out, or even answering the phone. All that was left was bingeing, purging, exercising, and studying. I was put in the college infirmary twice because of my bulimia.    

After I found FA, I have abstained from addictive eating and purging.  Today I know that no matter what else happens, it's a good day for me if I don't hurt myself with food.

"Vomiting and laxatives made me crazy. In FA I found sanity."

I was bingeing on mass quantities of food, and I was purging, through vomiting and laxatives. I was actually not overweight; I was probably underweight, but I felt crazy.

In my disease, if I thought about eating, I would have no choice but to eat. But in FA, things changed. The fog started to clear. My physical withdrawal gradually began to subside.

Today even though hard life situations continued to occur, but I finally know that bingeing and purging won't help, but would make matters worse.  Now I truly have a program for living.

"The quantities of food I ate made me want to kill myself."

My eating began as a little tot, when I was told that I rummaged through open pantries and crawled with anticipation and delight to the next sugar and flour item I could get my hot little hands on. This progressed to weight obsession in adolescence and bulimia, starvation, and over exercising throughout my entire teen years.

Before FA, eating the quantities I ate made me want to kill myself. I experienced ups and downs and mood swings while ingesting sugar and flour, which was all of the time. I was literally addicted to food. My personality could go from rage to tears in a minute.

I have lost 40 pounds in FA. FA has also taught me that I am enough, I do enough, and I have enough without the food.

"After 14 years of daily binging and purging, my life today keeps getting better."

After 14 years of binging and purging almost every day, and despite the overwhelming shame and guilt I felt about these things, I finally confided in a friend that I had a problem with food. I remember feeling instant relief after telling her. She told me about FA.

At the meeting, I spoke to a beautiful woman who had just shared that she was a former bulimic.

FA is truly is the best thing that has ever happened to me. I have not binged, purged, or eaten flour or sugar for one year and eight months. I have to pinch myself in the morning, because I feel like I must be dreaming. My life cannot be this good. Not mine. But, it is my life, and it keeps getting better.

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