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.