"Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him"

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

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

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

"Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character." & "Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings."

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

"Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves."

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

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

“We admitted we were powerless over food - that our lives had become unmanageable.”