Most organizations have a list of qualifications for membership, but in Overeaters Anonymous we have only one requirement: a desire to stop eating compulsively. ~ The Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions of Overeaters Anonymous (Kindle Locations 1450-1451).

Precious and priceless it is,
this gift of serenity, this sea of peace.
And you’re for the taking. No panel
testing qualifications — “this one’s too fat,”
“that one’s hung on these long years,
just doesn’t get it, takes up a seat
and makes us look bad.”
Well, so what? Who cares?
Sure, we may care ’cause our hearts hurts
when she doesn’t hang on to the hope,
the joy there for the taking, but she belongs!
Nobody can set any other rule,
any bar, any bright line test,
if you say you want to stop the food mania,
to escape the binges, to sanely dine…
then all we can say is, “Welcome home!
We’re glad you’re here.”