Meetings įA Meetings are central to the FA program of recovery. Sponsors share their program up to the level of their own experience. Sponsors are FA members who are committed to abstinence and to living the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions to the best of their ability. FA defines abstinence as weighed and measured meals with nothing in between, no flour, no sugar and the avoidance of any individual binge foods. The problem can be arrested a day at a time by the action of weighing and measuring our food and abstaining completely from all flour and sugar. FA believes food addicts have an allergy to flour, sugar and quantities that sets up an uncontrollable craving. Abstinence is simple and clear, but it is difficult to sustain continuously over the course of a lifetime. Abstinence is a planned, disciplined way of eating that leads to the addict's release from food cravings, obsession, and self-abuse. Ībstinence in FA is the parallel of sobriety in A.A. Overeating, under-eating or self-starvation, bulimia (including exercise bulimia), and extreme obsession with weight or food are among the symptoms of this addiction. The manifestations of food addiction vary. As is the case with other addictions, food addiction involves physical craving and an ever-increasing dependence upon and struggle with a substance (food).
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