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Step 1. We admitted
we were powerless over food-that our lives had become
unmanageable.
Step 2. Came to believe that a Power
greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
Step 3. Made a decision to turn our
will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood
Him.
Step 4. Made a searching and fearless
moral inventory of ourselves.
Step 5. Admitted to God, to ourselves
and to another human being the exact nature of our
wrongs.
Step 6. Were entirely ready to have
God remove all these defects of character.
Step 7. Humbly asked Him to remove our
shortcomings.
Step 8. Made a list of all persons we
had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them
all.
Step 9. Made direct amends to such
people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or
others.
Step 10. Continued to take personal
inventory and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it.
Step 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.
Step 12. Having had a spiritual
awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this
message to compulsive eaters and to practice these principles in all
our affairs.
Many of us exclaimed, "What an order! I
can't go through with it." Do not be discouraged. No one among us
has been able to maintain anything like perfect adherence to these
principles. We are not saints. The point is, that we are willing to
grow along spiritual lines. The principles we have set down are
guides to progress. We claim spiritual progress rather than
spiritual perfection.
Our description of the compulsive eater, the
chapter to the agnostic, and our personal adventures before and
after make clear three pertinent ideas:
(a) That we were compulsive eaters and
could not manage our own lives.
(b) That probably no human power could have
relieved our compulsive eating.
(c) That God could and would if He/She were
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