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For some women, overeating isn’t about hunger. It’s promising yourself you’ll have just a little, eating more than you meant to, and wondering why it keeps happening. Julie Kleinhans knows that cycle well. She spent years dieting and bingeing before a referral to Overeaters Anonymous gave her a different way to understand her relationship with food. Here is her story about how she applied that solution for both health and success in her life.
Julie takes us back to sneaking sweets as a child and shares what it was like to recognize the foods that triggered her binges. She explains why abstaining from those foods worked for her when moderation hadn’t, how she dealt with the grief of giving them up, and how she lost 90 pounds. Her recovery became about more than weight: it changed how she cared for herself every day.
We also talk about the support that helped her stay connected to recovery, including a 12-step community, daily structure, and prayer. Julie shares her Christ-centered approach while recognizing that women with different beliefs can also find support in 12-step communities.
Today, Julie uses what she learned to help others through Reshape and Recover, its online community and weekly Zoom meetings, and her book Twelve Steps to Recovery from Overeating. Her story is an honest look at what happened when she stopped trying to manage compulsive overeating alone. If her story made you think about your own, explore more Real Women LIVE conversations. A new woman’s story arrives every Tuesday.
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