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The Twelve Steps of Overeaters Anonymous

 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 over-eaters and to practice these principles

           in all our affairs.

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