Here are the 12 Steps of Overeaters Anonymous. You will
note that they are quite similar to the Steps of AA. Only Steps
One and Twelve are different -- in Step One we admit
powerlessness over food, and in Twelve we carry this message to
other compulsive overeaters.


                        The Twelve Steps
                     of Overeaters Anonymous

 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 ammends 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.

 * Origin: OASIS for Overeaters Anonymous 415-658-5397
           (RBBS-PC 1:125/32)