Therapy, yes or no?

Aww shucks!  What a sweet thing to say! That's the reason I like you lots!! You are good for my self-esteem.   LoL! ~However!... you are JUST as lovely the day I met you, as your high-school photo shows!

I love that pic.  You look like one of thioe girls that I would have been jealous of in school!!!

You jealous? No way! With those big beautiful blue eyes, I can see you melting the hearts of everyone.  You are very lovely Lisa and being thin or over weight has no bearing on that.

Don't you just wish that everyone could see it that way?
My first 43 years would have been so much easier!

  ...."I get by with a little help from my friends, I get high with a little help from my friends, going to try with a little help from my fri-en-en-en-ends"

However, if you think you need to discuss this with a therapist, I think it can only be a benefit to you. 

Maybe I should start paying Tia to be mine?   J/K!!!!

Ren, I have classes M, T, and W.  So sorry I can't make it to the meeting!

After many, many, many (because I am old) years of therapy, I no longer believe that it can help me with my relationshop with food. I am in no way saying that it cannot help anyone else. I am just burned out on it. I have learned many lessons in taking care of myself and I have mostly learned them as a member of Alanon. I no longer believe that my food addiction is caused from my emotions. I now believe it is the other way around. My emotions are whacked out because of my imbalance in my brain chemistry. My son, who is an alcoholic(thus the reason for Alanon) has inherited my brain chemistry. However, his substance of choice is alcohol. I inherited my faulty brain chemistry from my dad who was also an alcoholic. I have 4 siblings that also have food addiction and some have other addictions. I became very, very weary of therapy and going back to when I was a child and trying to figure out at what times did I feel this and what times did I have the same type of behavior.

So...I am on a program that will heal food addiction with nutrition and I have a lot of faith in it to work if I just get with the program.

But...this is just me and like they say in Alanon meetings...."take what you want and leave the rest".

OMG - Lisa! I just noticed your new avatar! You have changed a lot since your prior one! You look fantastic and like a totally new person! No wonder you are having trouble catching up with yourself! No matter whether you decide to try a counselor or work on this yourself, you will get there. I agree with the statements that have been made about it taking time. It just will.

Congratulations on the new you!

Deb:
Thanks.  I thought it was time that I put up a new photo.  I just still don't see a difference.  I mean if I put my picture up to an old one, obviously there is a difference, but every morning when I get dressed I look in the mirror and there is still the same old me.  The more I talk about this, the more I think that I really do need to go and talk to a professional.
Thanks for the advise.

Gail:
Thanks for the response.  My grandfather was an alcoholic and my mother always carried an alcoholics annonymous handbook.  I always wondered why, but I know that excessive tendencies seem to be passed down.  Maybe mine was in the way of a food addiction (you think)?  I just don't know about going to tell someone all my problems and then pay them to tell me to try to figure them out myself.  I have always tried to talk things out myself.