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We admitted we were
powerless over food — that our lives had become unmanageable.
- Came to believe that a
Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
- Made a decision to turn
our will and our lives over to the care of God
as we understood Him.
- Made a searching and
fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
- Admitted to God, to
ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
- Were entirely ready to
have God remove all these defects of character.
- Humbly asked Him to
remove our shortcomings.
- Made a list of all
persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.
- Made direct amends to
such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure
them or others.
- Continued to take
personal inventory and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it.
- 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.
- 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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Our common welfare
should come first; personal recovery depends upon OA unity.
- 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.
- The only requirement
for OA membership is a desire to stop eating compulsively.
- Each group should be
autonomous except in matters affecting other groups or OA as a
whole.
- Each group has but one
primary purpose — to carry its message to the compulsive overeater
who still suffers.
- 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.
- Every OA group ought to
be fully self-supporting, declining outside contributions.
- Overeaters Anonymous
should remain forever non-professional, but our service centers may
employ special workers.
- OA, as such, ought
never be organized; but we may create service boards or committees
directly responsible to those they serve.
- Overeaters Anonymous
has no opinion on outside issues; hence the OA name ought never be
drawn into public controversy.
- 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.
- Anonymity is the
spiritual foundation of all these Traditions, ever reminding us to
place principles before personalities
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