GreySheeters use a food plan and comes with a sponsor. They do not distribute the food plan to those who are not willing to work with a sponsor to become abstinent.
The GreySheeters Anonymous group has been founded and designed to discuss the fundamentals or basics of attaining and maintaining Greysheet abstinence, based on the OA GreySheet diet plan originally released in the late 1960s. They explore together the utilization of the program of Alcoholics Anonymous in arresting compulsive eating. They require that their meeting leaders be abstinent for at least 3 months on the Greysheet. They support a vigorous and positive attitude toward Greysheet abstinence—which they define as 3 weighed and measured meals a day with nothing in between, but black coffee, tea, or diet soda.