1

Honesty

We admitted we were powerless over food — that our lives had become unmanageable.

2

Hope

Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.

3

Faith

Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.

4

Courage

Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.

5

Integrity

Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.

6

Willingness

Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.

7

Humility

Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.

8

Self-discipline

Made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.

9

Love for others

Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.

10

Perseverance

Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it.

11

Spiritual Awareness

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

Service

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.