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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1. Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends
upon OA unity.
2. For our group purpose there is but one ultimate authority — a
loving God as He may express Himself in our group conscience.
Our leaders are but trusted servants; they do not govern.
3. The only requirement for OA membership is a desire to stop
eating compulsively.
4. Each group should be autonomous except in matters affecting
other groups or OA as a whole.
5. Each group has but one primary purpose — to carry its
message to the compulsive overeater who still suffers.
6. An OA group ought never endorse, finance or lend the OA name
to any related facility or outside enterprise, lest problems of
money, property and prestige divert us from our primary purpose.
7. Every OA group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining
outside contributions.
8. Overeaters Anonymous should remain forever nonprofessional,
but our service centers may employ special workers.
9. OA, as such, ought never be organized; but we may create service
boards or committees directly responsible to those they serve.
10. Overeaters Anonymous has no opinion on outside issues; hence
the OA name ought never be drawn into public controversy.
11. Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather
than promotion; we need always maintain personal anonymity at
the level of press, radio, films, television and other public
media of communication.
12. Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all these Traditions,
ever reminding us to place principles before personalities.
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