I am in Deep mourning!!!

It has finally come to me after all of the wonderful responses I received from my last post. I am in deep mourning. I have loss my best friend. FOOD. It never dawned on me before that I abused food the way I did. I never realized how much I depended on food until now. I find that as soon as I am stressed good or bad I am ready to reach for something to shove in my mouth. So I had to find something else. It is still hard no matter how much I try and divert my attention to something else,but at least it is a start. I bought the Gazelle Elite by Tony Little and now when I am stressed good or bad I HOP on Tony and ride into the sunset. I just wanted to say thank you all so much for your kind words and heartfelt emails. I know this is just the begining for me and that things will get better. I am slowly but surely learning the meaning "Patience is a Virtue". Adrienne

I know EXACTLY what you mean. I'm 4 weeks out, and I'm still adjusting to not eating normally. Thanksgiving was REALLY hard, especially watching everyone else eat big piles of food and me with my tiny plate. For me, It's like being a drug addict, and one day you shoot up, smoke, or whatever and nothing happens anymore. This really sucks all the joy out of eating. I hear it gets better, but it sure won't ever be the same again. Unfortunately, it has to be this way, or I would have eaten myself into an early grave. I'm sure in 6 months when I look in the mirror and see how much weight I have lost, the pain of losing my addiction to food won't hurt so much, if at all! Tanya