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GreySheeters Anonymous Preamble*

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GreySheeters Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength, and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from compulsive overeating.  The only requirement for membership is the desire to stop eating compulsively.  There are no dues or fees for GSA membership; we are self-supporting through our own contributions.  GSA is not allied with any sect, denomination, politics, organization, or institution; does not wish to engage in any controversy; neither endorses nor opposes any causes.  Our primary purpose is to stay abstinent and help other compulsive overeaters to achieve abstinence.

* Adapted with permission from Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc.
 

The Twelve Promises

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1. If we are painstaking about this phase of our development, we will be amazed before we are half way through.

2. We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness.

3. We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it.

4. We will comprehend the word serenity and we will know peace.

5. No matter how far down the scale we have gone, we will see how our experience can benefit others.

6. That feeling of uselessness and self-pity will disappear.

7. We will lose interest in selfish things and gain interest in our fellows.

8. Self-seeking will slip away.

9. Our whole attitude and outlook upon life will change.

10. Fear of people and of economic insecurity will leave us.

11. We will intuitively know how to handle situations which used to baffle us.

12. We will suddenly realize that God is doing for us what we could not do for ourselves.


Reader: Are these extravagant promises?

Group: We think not!

Reader: They are being fulfilled among us - sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly. They will always materialize if we work for them.

* Adapted with permission from Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc.

 

GreySheet Group Purpose

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This group has been founded and designed to discuss the fundamentals or basics of attaining and maintaining Greysheet abstinence.  For that purpose, we explore together the utilization of the program of Alcoholics Anonymous in arresting compulsive eating.  We strongly support Greysheet.  We require that our meeting leaders be abstinent for at least 3 months on the Greysheet.  We support a vigorous and positive attitude toward Greysheet abstinence---which we define as 3 weighed and measured meals a day with nothing in between, but black coffee, tea, or diet soda.
 

The Twelve Traditions *

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1. Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon GreySheeters Anonymous unity.

2. 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.

3. The only requirement for GSA membership is a desire to stop eating compulsively.

4. Each group should be autonomous except in matters affecting other groups or GSA as a whole.

5. Each group has but one primary purpose - to carry its message to the overeater who still suffers.

6. A GSA group ought never endorse, finance or lend the GSA name to any related facility or outside enterprise, lest problems of money, property and prestige divert us from our primary purpose.

7. Every GSA group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside contributions.

8. GSA should remain forever nonprofessional, but our service centers may employ special workers.

9. GSA as such ought never be organized, but we may create service boards or committees directly responsible to those they serve.

10. GSA has no opinion on outside issues; hence the GSA name ought never be drawn into public controversy.

11. Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion; we need always maintain personal anonymity at the level of press, radio and film.

12. Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our Traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities.

* The Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions are reprinted with the permission of Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc.  Permission to reprint and adapt the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions does not mean that A.A. is in any way affiliated with this program.  A.A. is a program of recovery from alcoholism only.  Use of the Steps and Traditions in connection with programs and activities which are patterned after A.A., but which address other problems, or in any other non-A.A. context, does not imply otherwise.  (See Memo).

 
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