Recovery from Compulsive Eating: A Complete Guide to the Twelve Step Program

by Jim A

Recovery From Compulsive Eating This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1568380178
• ISBN13: 9781568380179
• Release Date: March 1994
• Publisher: Hazelden Publishing & Educational Services
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Awesome and Highly Recommended!

I bought this book to help me understand what OA is. Sometimes you go to a meeting, and in the beginning - it feels like you have a million questions that may go unanswered. OA is the best thing that has happened to me in 2007, as I have been on my recovery path for the past 10 months! This book is very thorough, and answered all my questions. In the beginning, I was SO ready to understand, and make the commitment to myself and my recovery. This made it that much easier for me. I continue to use it as a point of reference today with other literature. This isn't an OA book persay, but written by an OAer with a great deal of recovery and helpful insight into my addiction to food. This is a great tool! ODAT!

A Fantastic Book

I don't usually write reviews about books, but I felt obligated to write a review for this one. The book not only gives great advice about eating, but also great general advice for everyday life. The book is well-written and reads like a novel. I highly recommend this book.

A Wonderful & Inspirational Book of Overeaters!

Wow-this book really encouraged me in my journey with compulsive overeating. It is a terrific resource for the beginner all the way to the fully recovered! Written from an insider's perspective, this book is sure to comfort, encourage, and strengthen overeaters and/or those who love them.

Great for OA Basics

I started doing online Overeaters Anonymous meetings and joined an OA "mail loop" about a month ago, and needed some basics about the OA program, because although I was getting help from the OA online sources, I had a lot of questions about how OA works. And other things -- how could I ever deal with holidays and traveling without overeating, how to explain to my doctor, friends and family that I wasn't dieting per se, but rather dealing with my compulsive overeating problem, etc.I've read this book from cover to cover TWICE now, and each time I find answers to new questions I didn't even know I had.Jim A. essentially shares his own experience but also talks about OA's history, the steps, what "abstinence" is, and why the program works so well.A terrific guide -- and one I'm sure I will refer to over and over again!

It has given me hope.

This book gave me a new understanding of what overeating is. I always thought it was a lack of will power and never had a full understanding of what I was doing to myself. It has shed a new light on things, I have faith that I can recover too.