Addictive Eaters Anonymous: Recent Episodes

AEA

Addictive Eaters Anonymous (AEA) is a Twelve Step fellowship based on Alcoholics Anonymous. AEA members have found recovery from binge eating, anorexia, bulimia, other forms of addictive eating and compulsive exercise. These podcasts are a series of audio recordings of members sharing their experience, strength and hope. Wherever you are, whatever your problem with food, AEA can help: https://www.addictiveeatersanonymous.org/

I Couldn't Diet Anymore

I Couldn't Stop Eating

Nothing Was Ever Enough

Happy, Joyous and Free

Freedom From the Obsession

Secret Food, Secret Life

Peace I'd Never Known

Petrified of Putting on Weight

I couldn't do life.

Food was my first addiction

Freedom from all substances

Christchurch Event - April 2025

Christchurch Event - April 2025

Christchurch Event, April 2025

Christchurch Event - April 2025

Christchurch Event - April 2025

Christchurch Event - April 2025

Honest for the first time in my life

I had no resistance to food

Stealing money to buy food.

I'm not normal around food.

Not another day of this.

Rules and Control

I Liked Being Alone With The Food

Using Food to Feel Better

Not Normal Around Food

I Was Broken

I will Never do This Again

Weight Gain Filled Me With Fear

I had to get bad enough

I Couldn't Manage Food

I can Trust my Higher Power

Food Was My Enemy

Life Was A Big Secret

I Feel Whole and Complete

A Flower Blooming

I've Only Got Now

A Hole Inside Me

Today It's Really Different

I Was Lying To Myself

A Priviledge To Be Alive

Fear, Dishonesty and Eating

I Feel so Blessed Now

I was Fascinated with Food

I am so Grateful

I had a Secret Life

I Couldn't Fix Myself

I Had Hope For The First Time

I Had to Ask For Help

Life has Gotten Better

I Came Back

I Thought There was no Solution

I was Born a Food Addict

It's a Miracle I don't eat Addictively

I Was Very Resistant

Dublin AEA Event

Dublin AEA Event

Dublin AEA Event

Dublin AEA Event

I Have a Disease Called Addiction

I Needed Food to Feel Better

Dublin AEA Event

Dublin AEA Event

I Thought I was Different

I Didn't Know Food was Addictive

A New Life

I was Devious Around Food

I Was Always on a Diet

Free of the Obsession to Eat

Food Excited Me

More Than Just the Food

One or Two Just Wasn't Enough

I Used to Binge and Vomit

I Didn't Have any Self Discipline

I was Brought Back to Life

I Was A Secret Eater

I Found Life Really Difficult

I ate Other People's Food

I Tried to get Control of Food

I Wanted to be Really Skinny

I Hid the Way I Ate

My Life is no Longer a Battle

I Ate to Feel Better

I was Born With This Disease

I was in Danger of Losing my Life

I was Always Anxious and Afraid

Life was an Absolute Mess

A Double Life With Food

I Had No Off Switch For Food

I Used Food to Change How I Felt

Finding Something to be Grateful for

My Path to Meditation in AEA

I Have a Willingness to Change

I Wanted to Stop but I Couldn't

I Struggled with my Weight

Self-Help Never Worked

I Felt Depressed, Lonely, and Tearful

I was Shy, Nervous, and Afraid

I was Sneaky Around Food

My Eating was Disgusting

I Thought I Could Fix Myself

Not Just a Woman's Problem

I was not Nice to be Around

I was Frightened of the Scales

A Disease of Loneliness

I Felt Uneasy with the World

I Stole Other People's Food

I was Never a Normal Eater

I had all this Anger

Food Dominated my Growing up Years

Bulimia Overtook my Life

Dieting was Pointless

I was Ready to ask for Help

Self-Reliant, Self-Sufficient and Full of Fear

I had one Problem, it was Addiction

My Disease Progressed Quickly

I Ate all day, Every day

I Started Dieting at Age 11

It is a Joy to be Sober

I Would Eat to Blackout

Food was the Focus of my Life

The Journey of Bulimia was Hell

Forever Trying to Diet

Health Diets, Exercise, Starving and Laxatives

I Got into Obsessively Weighing Myself

I Have got an Addiction to Exercise

I Never Expected a Solution for my Weight

Addictively Eating was my Normal

In the Grips of a Raging Addiction

Food did Something For Me

I was Trying to Escape Myself

Life was Always a Problem

I Felt Cut off from the World

I Couldn't Diet Anymore

I Had a Depressive Disorder Diagnosis

I Had to Let go of the Control

I Don't Binge and Purge Anymore

I Needed to Manage my Weight

I Ate in Secret

Food Was My Enemy

I'm Sober From All Substances

I'm Free From Food Obsession

Dublin Event- I Wanted to Stop Purging But Couldn't

Christchurch Event - I Felt Hopeless and Despairing

I'm Beginning to Wake Up

These Steps Saved My Life

I was Afraid to Change

I Just Wanted to be Thin

I Tried Everything Else

Christchurch Event - I Needed to Ask for Help

I Always Felt Different

Dublin Event - Controlled Eating Made Me Insane

Christchurch Event - All my Eating was Addictive

Christchurch Event - I Couldn't Tell the Truth

It's Good to be Alive Today

Dublin Event - I Couldn't Get a Grip on Things

Food Took the Edge Off

I Couldn't Stop Eating, I was a Bottomless Pit

Christchurch Event - I'm No Longer Morbidly Obese

Glasgow Event - Willingness Came From Taking Action

My Life was so Exhausting

Glasgow Event - I Binged, Vomited and Exercised

Not Just a Woman's Problem

I Didn't Know How to do Life

Glasgow Event - I was Losing Control of my Life

California Event - I Always Said ''Tomorrow I Will...''

Something in me was Beaten

Glasgow Event - My Eating was Done in Secret

I Never Thought I'd be Free

Glasgow Event - I Exercised Myself Fat

I Pretended Everything was Okay

I Stole and Hid Food

Nothing Else Mattered But Food

I was Obsessed with my Weight

The Craving for Food Has Gone

I Thought I was so Weak

Getting Found Out Didn't Stop Me