This website is designed to give information to our members and newcomers on meetings and upcoming events for the Diablo Valley Region of Overeaters Anonymous. Our goal is to serve the OA community. If you have questions or comments please send us an e-mail at diablovalleyoa@mac.com.

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 for members; we are self-supporting through our own contributions, neither solicitating nor accepting outside donations. O.A. is not affiliated with any public or private organization, political movement, ideology, or religious doctrine; we take no positions on outside issues. Our primary purpose is to abstain from compulsive overeating and carry this message of recovery to those who still suffer.

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Diablo Valley Intergroup now meets on the last Saturday of every month at 9am at St. Mark's Lutheran Church, 200 Putnam Blvd., Pleasant Hill. 

Everyone is welcome!
 
Each meeting is strongly encouraged to send a representative

Invitation to Recovery

We of Overeaters Anonymous have made a discovery. At the very first meeting we attended, we learned that we were in the clutches of a dangerous illness, and that willpower, emotional stability and self-confidence, which some of us had once possessed, were no defense against it.

We have found that the reasons for the illness are not what is important. What deserves the attention of the still suffering compulsive overeater is this: there is a proven, workable method by which we can arrest our illness.

The OA recovery program is patterned after that of Alcoholics Anonymous. We use AA's Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, changing only the words "alcohol" and "alcoholic" to "food" and "compulsive overeater."

As our personal stories attest, the twelve step program of recovery works as well for compulsive overeaters as is does for alcoholics.

Can we guarantee you this recovery? The answer is simple. If you will honestly face the truth about yourself and the illness; if you will keep coming back to meetings to talk and listen to other recovering compulsive overeaters; if you will read our literature and that of Alcoholics Anonymous with an open mind; and most, important, if you are willing to rely on a power greater than yourself for direction in your life, and to take the twelve steps to the best of your ability, we believe you can indeed join the ranks of those who are recovering.