12 steps - Not stinker at all

So I've been attending OA since the new year. I have to admit, it's going really well. So well, in fact, that I had to share. If you're not familiar with the 12 steps of OA, here they are:

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 amends 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.

I'm currently focusing on step 3. I have handed control of my life, particularly my relationship with food, over to God. What's so cool is, He's definitely taking control. You would think handing control over to God would mean a loss of freedom. In reality, giving control over to God has given me freedom.

The biggest change since God's taken over has been the difference in the tone/thought process of the voice inside myself. Before I asked God to take over, the voice in my head was very critical. If I made a good choice about food, my inner critc would strong arm me into making that good choice with words of encouragemetnt such as "Only a fat person would eat that. Want to be fat? If so, eat up."

Now, when making a decision about food, the voice sounds more like "Fries or yogurt? I'll have the yogurt".

I know that might not seem like a big deal, but it's huge for me. I'm so thankful.