â HMI
The Twelve Steps
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.
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