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

Hello Adrienne..... food has been a vERY large part of our lives and I know I also am going to have separation anxiety .....unless God willing my brain in connected to my stomach and I forget the taste of foods....LOL charlene

Keep up the good fight Adrienne!!! You are an inspiration to all of us who are about to join you in hopefully a successful weight-loss!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! KEN/EDMOND, OK

Hello Adrienne, I took realized and got a taste of loosing my best friend [food] very soon after my discharge to home. Everyone around me was eating and I resented the fact that they could eat what the wanted, when the wanted to and as much as they wanted to. This option was not longer available to me and I did not like it one bit. I was *****y to those around me but once I verbalized what I felt was going on [lost my best friend] to them things sort of fell into place for a while. But twelve days out I got into one of life's stress issuses and pick up food to eat and paid dearly for it. I experience the "heart attack" feeling and had to wait my time out for the feeling to pass. Lesson learned, pick up water the next time if I have to have something, at least it will pass through quicker. I will get some counsuling in the furture to learn new coping skills so I can move on in life. Marlyn 15 days out.