title: A New Beginning: Stories of Recovery from Relapse
author: Overeaters Anonymous staff
description: Overeaters Anonymous is a fellowship of individuals who, through shared experience, strength, and hope, are recovering from compulsive overeating. We welcome everyone who wants to stop eating compulsively. There are no dues or fees. Our primary purpose is to abstain from compulsive eating and to carry the message of recovery through the Twelve Steps of OA.
zlib_text: Table of Contents
   
  CHAPTER 1
  CHAPTER 2
  CHAPTER 3
  CHAPTER 4
  CHAPTER 5
  CHAPTER 6
  CHAPTER 7
  CHAPTER 8
  CHAPTER 9
  CHAPTER 10
  
  CHAPTER 1
  But it was April 30, and of course it would happen as it always did.It had taken me a while to catch
  on, but now I at least knew when it was coming. In the past, I'd bin too busy to do anything about it.But my
  job was finished now. I'd only stayed around for this.I felt that I really ought to clear the matter up before I
  departed.I got out of bed, visited the bathroom,showered, brushed my teeth, et cetera. I'd grown a beard
  again, so I didn't have to shave.I was not jangling with strange apprehensions, as I had been on that April
  30 three years ago when I'd awakened with a headache and a premonition, thrown open the windows, and
  gone to the kitchen to discover all of the gas burners turned on and flameless. No.It wasn't even like the
  April 30 two years ago in the other apartment when I awoke before dawn to a faint smell of smoke to
  learn that the place was