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To be sober means to give up the drug to which we are addicted to. In Anorexic Bulimic Anonymous, since we are addicted to the feeling of being in control of our food or weight or body shape, to be sober we need to surrender all control of our food and exercise and body weight and body shape to a Higher Power. Sobriety is not eating in a particular way, but rather surrendering to the way our Higher Power wills us to eat and to the body weight and shape our Higher Power wills us to have. In ABA we have learned that we cannot use willpower to get sober or stay sober; we can only receive sobriety as a daily gift from our Higher Power.