About the fellowship
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Anorexics and Bulimics Anonymous, or ABA, is a free, anonymous twelve-step fellowship for people recovering from anorexia, bulimia, and related patterns of restricting, purging and compulsive control around food. It adapts the twelve steps to disordered eating.
There are no fees and no referral is needed. The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop unhealthy eating practices.
ABA is for people caught in restriction, purging, over-exercise, or the exhausting mental arithmetic that goes with them. Members describe recovery as surrendering the behaviours one day at a time with the support of people who have lived the same thing. You are welcome at any stage, including if you are also under the care of an eating disorder service; ABA sits alongside treatment, it does not replace it.
Three fellowships in the UK meet around food and eating, and they overlap. Eating Disorders Anonymous, EDA, welcomes every eating disorder and centres balance rather than abstinence. Overeaters Anonymous, OA, began around compulsive overeating and welcomes undereating too. ABA speaks most directly to anorexia and bulimia. Many people visit more than one before finding where they identify most, and all three are free and anonymous.
ABA in the UK is small: a few in-person meetings, including in London and Brighton, and online meetings you can join from anywhere. The fellowship publishes venue details through its own website, so use the meeting's page there to confirm before travelling.