Step I -
We admitted we were powerless over food, that our lives had become unmanageable.
- The Twelve Steps of OA
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"There is a solution. Almost none of us liked the self searching, the leveling of our pride, the confession of shortcomings which the process requires for its successful consummation. But we saw that it really worked in others, and we had come to believe in the hopelessness and futility of life as we had been living it."
- AA Big Book, p. 25.