1. We admitted we were powerless over sugar, flour, and
wheat; 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 God 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 food
addicts and to practice these principles in all our
affairs