Overeaters Anonymous > Adelaide Intergroup

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Literature is one of the 8 Tools of Recovery. We study and read OA-approved pamphlets, OA-approved books, such as “Overeaters Anonymous” (second edition), “The Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions of Overeaters Anonymous” and “For Today”, and we read “Lifeline”, our monthly magazine on recovery. We also study the book “Alcoholics Anonymous”, referred to as the “Big Book”, to understand and reinforce our programme. Many OA members find that when read daily, the literature further reinforces how to live the Twelve Steps.

If you wish to order literature, please download the attached Literature Order Form which has a full list of all our publications.

You can purchase or order literature at meetings.

All meetings have a selection of DVDs and cassettes for you to borrow.

Copies of Lifeline Magazine are also available to borrow.

Can’t get to a meeting? Need a meeting NOW? Online meetings are available all hours of the day and night at Online Meetings.

Adelaide Intergroup: PO Box 206, Unley SA 5061 PH: +061 8 8224 0500

Mitchell Park: Monday 7.30pm Marion Church of Christ, corner Marion Rd and Alawoona Ave.  

North Adelaide: Wednesday 10 to 11:30am. St John’s Immanuel Lutheran Church, 139 Archer St. Bluestone room at back of church. Enter car park via Walters St. Members sometimes go for lunch together at a cafe around the corner.

North Adelaide: Friday 10 to 11:30am. St John’s Immanuel Lutheran Church, 139 Archer St. Bluestone room at back of church. Members sometimes go for lunch together at a cafe around the corner.

North Adelaide: Saturday 9:30 to 11am. St John’s Immanuel Lutheran Church, 139 Archer St. Bluestone room at back of church. Members sometimes go to a cafe around the corner together after the meeting. Every 2nd Saturday of the month there is also an Intergroup meeting at 11:30am. 

Semaphore Park: Thursday 7:30 - 8:30pm. Bower Cottages, 200 Bower Road, Semaphore Park.

Salisbury North: Sunday 7.30 - 8.30pm. Bagster Road Community House, Bagster Road, Salisbury North. (Off Waterloo Corner Road)

As these member stories are sourced locally, they are not OA approved literature. The opinions expressed in these stories are those of the individuals and not of OA as a whole.

• Local personal stories coming soon.
• Stories from the world service website here.

In Overeaters Anonymous, you’ll find members who are extremely overweight, even morbidly obese; moderately overweight; average weight; underweight; still maintaining periodic control over their eating behaviour; or totally unable to control their compulsive eating.

OA members experience many different patterns of food behaviors.

The idea of OA came to cofounder Rozanne S. at a Gamblers Anonymous (GA) meeting she attended with a compulsive gambling friend in 1958. As GA members shared their stories, she heard her story – not of gambling, but of compulsive overeating. She knew then that the Twelve-Step and Twelve-Tradition programme founded by Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and modeled by GA offered her a chance to change her life and reduce her to 152-pound body to a size that would fit her 5-foot-2-inch frame. Not until 1960, when her weight had increased to 161 pounds, could she find other people who shared her convictions.

Her chance meeting with a new neighbor, Jo S., gave Rozanne strength in numbers, even if it was only one person. Together they found another compulsive overeater, Bernice S., and convened the first OA meeting in Hollywood, California, January 19, 1960.

Today, about 6,500 OA groups meet each week in over 65 countries. With OA divided into 10 regions worldwide and approximately 400 intergroups, it helps thousands of compulsive overeaters find themselves through a threefold recovery: physical, emotions and spiritual.

(For more on OA’s history, read “Beyond Our Wildest Dreams”).

Overeaters Anonymous is a Fellowship of individuals who, through shared experience, strength and hope, are recovering from compulsive overeating. We welcome everybody who wants to stop eating compulsively.

There are no dues or fees for members, we are self-supporting through our own contributions, neither soliciting nor accepting outside donations. OA is not affiliated with any public or private organization, political movement, ideology or religious doctrine, we take no position on outside issues.

Our primary purpose is to abstain from compulsive overeating and to carry this message of recovery to those who still suffer.

Since 1992, on the third Saturday in November, members of Overeaters Anonymous worldwide observe an International Day of Experiencing Abstinence (IDEA). The OA Fellowship created IDEA Day to encourage members and newcomers to abstain from compulsive overeating.

The WSBC, attended by delegates from around the world, meets annually each May to conduct the business of OA and to elect the 16-member Board of Trustees (BOT). The board acts on behalf of all members of the OA Fellowship. The World Service Office (WSO) works with the BOT to provide quality support and services to the entire OA Fellowship