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.

Reprinted with permission from the World Service Organization of Overeaters Anonymous