health; PERSONALLY; Overeaters' program is succeeding; A "volume eater" says he hasn't overeaten in 3 1/2 years. Experts say that in OA HOW, people can lose the weight and keep it off.(SOURCE)

From: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) | Date: March 22, 2006 | Copyright information

Byline: Anonymous

By ANONYMOUS

Anonymous@startribune.com

Jim used to worry about dying because he was so overweight.

I first met him at an Overeaters Anonymous HOW meeting in St. Louis Park in 2003, when he weighed 365 pounds.

"I would think about how people would be at my wake," he recalled in an interview last week. "My family and my kids would see me in the coffin and think about what a waste it was that I died because I couldn't stop overeating."

Jim, who lives in Burnsville and is 45 years old, said that before joining OA HOW, he had lost 100 pounds ...

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