About Me



I'm Sarah, and I'm a recovering compulsive overeater, undereater, and bulimic.

I'm in my 40's. I'm married with two kids. I work full time.

I'm maintaining a ~50 lb weight loss, which I share first because I know that's what most people are interested in, but more importantly, I'm maintaining some sanity for the first time in my life.

You can read more of my story here, and in a forthcoming anthology about eating disorders that will be published in Summer 2019.

If you can't stop eating, purging, starving, or obsessing about food and/or your body, there is hope for you, no matter your age, gender, race, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, political party, or socioeconomic status. I tried so many different things to stop my own hellish cycle of bingeing and restricting, and none of them gave me a fraction of the physical, emotional, and spiritual recovery I've found in OA. My worst day in recovery is still better than my best day when I was living in my eating disorder.

As Harlan G. has frequently said, the food was not my problem, the buildup of human emotions was my problem, and food was my solution. I have other solutions now.

If you think you might be a compulsive overeater but you're not sure, check out this quiz on oa.org. Listen to a few of these podcasts (available on the web or search your favorite podcast app for OA LAIG speaker podcast) and see if you identify with the kinds of things people share in their stories. See if you cry tears of recognition, as I did.

If you're pretty sure you are a compulsive overeater and you're ready to think about considering maybe starting to possibly feel better, check out a meeting, either face-to-face or on the phone.

I am a grateful member of Overeaters Anonymous, but the views I share here to not represent OA.

I work the steps. I sponsor. I attend three OA meetings a week and two Al-Anon meetings a week. I've been in OA since August 2015, which means, basically, I'm still a newbie and I know nothing, though I've been imperfectly abstinent for more than three years.

I'm sharing my experience, strength, and hope here, but if it doesn't speak to you, please keep looking, because if you have the disease of compulsive overeating, you will find someone in a meeting or on a podcast who is telling your story.

I did not believe in God when I got here. I do now. Sort of. Mostly.

Stay in touch or ask a question!



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