Requirements for Meetings who wish to
be registered with Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA)
Please take time to review
the points below which define an FA Meeting.
Only those meetings that comply with this definition may be registered
with the FA World Service Office.
1.
As a group, the members
meet to practice the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions of FA.
2.
All who have a desire to
stop abusing themselves with food are welcome.
3.
To start a new meeting,
the FA World Service Board strongly suggests there be at least 2 members with 6 or more months of
continuous FA abstinence.
4.
The meeting format
contains the following readings:
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The Twelve Steps and
Twelve Traditions of FA.
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Only FA members with 90
days or more of continuous FA abstinence (as defined below) are eligible to
speak at FA meetings.
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Only FA members with 90
days or more of continuous FA abstinence (as defined below) shall have a voice
and a vote at FA business meetings.
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The Definition of
Abstinence:
Weighed and
measured meals with nothing in between. No flour, no sugar, and avoidance of
all individual binge foods.
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The Definition of a Food
Addict:
Food addiction is a disease of the mind, body, and spirit for which there is no cure, but which can be arrested a day at a time by adapting to a disciplined way of eating and the 12 Step program of Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous. When we abuse food by using it as a drug, our lives become unmanageable. Food addicts have an allergy to flour, sugar, and quantities, that sets up an uncontrollable craving. The problem can be arrested a day at a time by weighing and measuring our food and abstaining completely from all flour and sugar.
Please send this form to the Chapter or Intergroup office
with which you wish to register a new meeting or change the information for an
existing meeting. The offices of the
Chapter will forward this form to the Intergroup, who will in turn forward it
to the FA- World Service Office. (Addresses of all existing
Intergroups and Chapters are listed on the back of this form.)
With submission of
this form, your meeting agrees to comply with the FA-WSI meeting
requirements (as listed on www.FoodAddicts.org) and is considered
registered with the FA-WSI, Intergroup and Chapter (when applicable).
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(E) Change Intergroup contacts of existing
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38 Montvale Avenue #170
Stoneham, MA 02810
Tel.
#781-648-4808 MA
207-775-2132 ME
212-656-1052 NY E-mail: faneimail@yahoo.com
P.O. Box 1722 Scarborough, ME
04070-1722 Tel. #207-775-2132 C/O Ann Hoffman 309 Saranac Way Ithaca, NY 14850 Tel. #607-387-8329 C/O Sue Gallogly 1730 Arash Cir. Port Orange, FL
32128 Tel. #386-258-0610 C/O Mariah Johnson 1500 SW 71st Ave. Plantation, FL
33317 Tel. #1-866-325-0500 P.O. Box 11566 Charlotte, NC
28220-1566 Tel. #704-438-1569 Attn: Registration/Change P.O. Box 475067 San Francisco, CA
94147-5067 Tel. #408-491-9824 1-800-600-6028
Maine Chapter of NEI
Upstate New York Chapter of NEI
Daytona Beach Florida Chapter of NEI
South Florida Chapter of NEI
Charlotte Intergroup
Western Area Intergroup (WAI)