MINNESOTA OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS CONVENTION

When: Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Friday: Registration begins at 5 p.m., program 7-9:30 p.m. Saturday: Registration begins at 7:30 a.m., program 8:25 a.m.-10 p.m. Sunday: 10 a.m.-noon.

Where: Holiday Inn Select, 3 Appletree Square, Bloomington.

Cost: All three days, $40; Saturday only, $20; Friday night or Saturday night, $10. Sunday morning, no admission charge. Meals available on Saturday while they last: lunch ($17); dinner ($20).

Info: www.overeaters.org

RESOURCES

• Weekly OA meetings are held throughout the Twin Cities. There are no membership fees, although donations are welcome. To find local meetings: www.overeaters.org or call 612-377-1600 or 1-888-540-1212.

• To find local meetings using the HOW format: www.oahow.org.

• To find an OA meeting in non-metro Minnesota or nationwide, or to find a telephone meeting or an online meeting, go to the OA World Service website: www.oa.org.

• The author of today's article on OA has written previous accounts in the Star Tribune on the subject of compulsively overeating, published on March 27, 2004, and March 22, 2006. To read them, go to: www.startribune.com/lifestyle.