Overeaters Anonymous
A twelve-step fellowship for people recovering from compulsive eating and other food behaviours.
What the fellowship is
Overeaters Anonymous welcomes anyone who struggles with food — overeating, undereating, bulimia, anorexia. It prescribes no diet; members work out a plan of eating with a sponsor and work the steps around it.
What members describe
Not a checklist and not a diagnosis — just what people in OA commonly say brought them in.
- Eating compulsively, grazing continuously, or purging afterwards
- Restricting, fasting or counting in a way that has stopped being a choice
- Hiding food, or eating alone to avoid being seen
- Weight and shape taking up most of the day's thinking
- Food standing in for comfort, company or celebration
Your first meeting
OA is deliberately broad: the same room holds people who eat too much and people who eat too little, because the underlying relationship with food is the shared part. No one will hand you a diet.
Where 12Gradus fits
12Gradus is software for the sponsor, not a substitute for one and not part of any fellowship. Nothing here is affiliated with or endorsed by Overeaters Anonymous.
A sponsee's profile records that they are in Overeaters Anonymous and dates their clean time from their last binge. Daily check-ins, a self-reported urge score, high-risk days noted beside the chart, a rough-moment button that reaches the sponsor immediately, secure chat and a text bridge all work the same in every programme.
The step work is the part that does not. The built-in library is written for Gamblers Anonymous. A sponsor in OA assigns their own materials instead — which works, and is what sponsors have always done, but it is not the same as having OA's own step work in the app.