ALL YOU LURKERS......
SEEMS LIKE AN AWFUL LOT OF LURKERS ON BOARD TODAY..... WHY DON'T YOU ALL COME OUT AND PLAY? How was your day?
I, myself, suffer from holiday depression. I always have. You see, all during the holidays, there is always so much FOOD. My Mama was a control freak when it came to my eating during the holidays and watched every single bite of food I put in my mouth. It was always a torturous time for me. We would always fuss when she would see me eating more than I should or sneaking and eating sweets and such. You see, food has always been a lifelong battle for me. Although, it's not so bad anymore, it's still embedded in my head. Also, after marrying, my husband was,and now is a reformed alcoholic. He would always choose to spend the holidays getting drunk, disappearing during family gatherings, worrying me sick where he was and what he was doing and we had two small daughters that wanted there Daddy. I praise the Lord for delivering him and us from our addictions. His alcohol and drugs and mine FOOD! You see, FOOD is not such a big issue with me anymore. I stood all day last Sunday afternoon making holiday goodies and even rubbed a blister on my hand from it, and I AM TELLING YOU THE TRUTH, I have not tasted one piece of it. Apparently, it's pretty good, cause Kyle sure has been putting a hurting on it. LOL The last 3 Fridays at work we've had snack days. The first one all that was brougt was sweets. I did not eat any of it. Thankfully, the last two had a nice selection of NON-sweet foods to pick from.
So, back to the depression at hand. Lately, I have just felt like climbing into a hole. All this hub bub and glitz and glamor just does a person in. This is NOT what CHRISTmas is all about. It's about the birth of Jesus, our Lord and Savior.So, Kyle and I have decided we may go away for Christmas Eve and Christmas day together, just the two of us. He's got the time off from work, 4 days to be exact, and we'd planned on going to his parents in WV for Christmas. His Mom is having heart valve replacement just after Christmas and we wanted to spend a little time with them. But, as luck would have it, they are snowed in where they live and the snow is about to stop falling anytime soon. So, where to go??? Who knows where we will wind up or we may just stay at home.
I, myself, suffer from holiday depression. I always have. You see, all during the holidays, there is always so much FOOD. My Mama was a control freak when it came to my eating during the holidays and watched every single bite of food I put in my mouth. It was always a torturous time for me. We would always fuss when she would see me eating more than I should or sneaking and eating sweets and such. You see, food has always been a lifelong battle for me. Although, it's not so bad anymore, it's still embedded in my head. Also, after marrying, my husband was,and now is a reformed alcoholic. He would always choose to spend the holidays getting drunk, disappearing during family gatherings, worrying me sick where he was and what he was doing and we had two small daughters that wanted there Daddy. I praise the Lord for delivering him and us from our addictions. His alcohol and drugs and mine FOOD! You see, FOOD is not such a big issue with me anymore. I stood all day last Sunday afternoon making holiday goodies and even rubbed a blister on my hand from it, and I AM TELLING YOU THE TRUTH, I have not tasted one piece of it. Apparently, it's pretty good, cause Kyle sure has been putting a hurting on it. LOL The last 3 Fridays at work we've had snack days. The first one all that was brougt was sweets. I did not eat any of it. Thankfully, the last two had a nice selection of NON-sweet foods to pick from.
So, back to the depression at hand. Lately, I have just felt like climbing into a hole. All this hub bub and glitz and glamor just does a person in. This is NOT what CHRISTmas is all about. It's about the birth of Jesus, our Lord and Savior.So, Kyle and I have decided we may go away for Christmas Eve and Christmas day together, just the two of us. He's got the time off from work, 4 days to be exact, and we'd planned on going to his parents in WV for Christmas. His Mom is having heart valve replacement just after Christmas and we wanted to spend a little time with them. But, as luck would have it, they are snowed in where they live and the snow is about to stop falling anytime soon. So, where to go??? Who knows where we will wind up or we may just stay at home.
Loretta's post really hit home with me. I grew up with 2 alcoholic parents and holidays were NEVER memories I wanted to keep.
Sept. 5, 1983 was Labor Day and the usual holiday life was going on with my parents. I woke up, dressed and left for work. Less than 30 minutes later I was called outside by a deputy. My Dad had passed away in his sleep.
The Serenity Prayer became my best friend.
Now, for step 5
THANK YOU Louise for posting these. I do not know where my Al-Anon book is.
Sept. 5, 1983 was Labor Day and the usual holiday life was going on with my parents. I woke up, dressed and left for work. Less than 30 minutes later I was called outside by a deputy. My Dad had passed away in his sleep.
The Serenity Prayer became my best friend.
Now, for step 5
THANK YOU Louise for posting these. I do not know where my Al-Anon book is.
Hi, my name is Elle and I am a Food Addict. Thank you Louise for sharing the 12 Step program with us. Thank you Gwen for sharing your experiences with us as well. It's through sharing our experiences and letting it all out, that we can help ourselves and help other that may be going or have gone through similar experiences. There are numerous reasons we become addicted to food and we can all benefit from learning from those experiences from each other.
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