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A Big Book Checklist of Promises

(What step are you on?)

Steps One and Two:

Is it clear to me that I am a compulsive overeater and cannot manage my own life?
Is it clear that no human power can relieve my compulsive overeating?
Is it clear that God can and will relieve my compulsive overeating if I seek God?

After Step Three:

Was an effect, even a very great one, felt at once?

After Step Four:

Have I written down a lot?
Have I listed and analyzed my resentments?
Have I begun to comprehend the futility and fatality of my resentments?
Have I begun to learn tolerance, patience, and good will toward all men, even my enemies?
Do I look on my enemies as sick people?
Have I listed the people I hurt by my conduct and am I willing to straighten out the past if I can?
Am I convinced that God can remove whatever self-will has blocked me off from Him?
Have I swallowed and digested some big chunks of truth about myself?

After Step Five:

Am I delighted?
Can I look the world in the eye?
Can I be alone at perfect peace and ease?
Have my fears fallen from me?
Have I begun to feel the nearness of my Creator?
Am I beginning to have a spiritual experience?
Has the eating problem disappeared (not always)?
Do I feel as if I am on the Broad Highway, walking hand in hand with the Spirit of the Universe?
Is my work solid so far?
Are the stones properly in place? Have I skimped on the cement put into the foundation? Have I tried to make mortar without sand?

Before half-way through Step Nine (the Promises):

Do I know a new freedom and a new happiness?
Do I not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it?
Do I comprehend the word serenity and do I know peace?
Do I see how my experience can benefit others, no matter how far down the scale I have gone?
Has that feeling of uselessness and self-pity disappeared?
Have I lost interest in selfish things and gained interested in my fellows?
Has self-seeking slipped away?
Has my whole attitude and outlook upon life changed?
Has fear of people and of economic insecurity left me?
Do I intuitively know how to handle situations which used to baffle me?
Have I suddenly realized that God is doing for me what I could not do for myself?

After Step Nine:

Have I ceased fighting anything or any one—even food?
Has sanity returned?
Am I seldom interested in food?
If tempted by food, do I recoil from it as from a hot flame.
Am I reacting sanely and normally, and has this happened automatically?
Do I feel as though I had been placed in a position of neutrality, safe and protected?
Has the problem been removed? Has it ceased to exist for me?
Am I neither cocky nor afraid?

After Step Ten:

Have I begun to sense the flow of His Spirit into me?
Have I to some extent become God conscious? Have I begun to develop this vital sixth sense?

After Step Eleven:

Am I surprised how the right answers have come when I have tried to relax, take it easy, and wait for God’s inspiration, intuitive thought, or decision.
Has what used to be the hunch or the occasional inspiration gradually become a working part of the mind?
As time passes, is my thinking more and more on the plane of inspiration?
Am I in much less danger of excitement, fear, anger, worry, self-pity, or foolish decisions?
Have I become much more efficient?
Do I not tire so easily?

After Step Twelve

Has life taken on a new meaning?
Do I not want to miss the opportunity to watch people recover, to see them help others, to watch loneliness vanish, to see a fellowship grow up about you, to have a host of friends?
Have remarkable things happened?
Am I presently living in a new and wonderful world, no matter what my present circumstances?
Can I do all sorts of things compulsive eaters are not supposed to do?
Can I go where my killer-food is served; can I have my killer-food in my home; do I see friends who eat my killer-food; do I watch movies or television which show scenes of eating my killer-food; do I go to restaurants which serve my killer-food; do my friends no longer have to hide their stores of killer-food when I visit them; can I be reminded of my killer-food?
Have I found release from care, boredom and worry?
Has my imagination been fired?
Does life mean something at last?
Do I know what it means to give of myself that others may survive and rediscover life?
Have I learned the full meaning of "Love thy neighbor as thyself"?
Has God shown me how to create the fellowship I crave?
Have great events come to pass for me and countless others?

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