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1. We admitted
we were powerless over food - that our lives had become unmanageable.
2.
Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore
us to sanity.
3.
Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care
of God as we understood Him.
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5. Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the
exact nature of our wrongs.
6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to
make amends to them all.
9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when
to do so would injure them or others.
10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong,
promptly admitted it.
11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious
contact with God as we
understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and
the power to carry that out.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps,
we tried to carry this message to compulsive overeaters and to practice
these principles in all our affairs.
In Overeaters
Anonymous we also use the 12 Traditions
as well as the Tools of Recovery
to help
us with our personal recovery.
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