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Topic: RE: Prettier before?
Frankly, pre-WLS, I didin't like what I looked like naked. Still don't- but NOW I look a HELL of a lot better in clothes!!!
Topic: RE: Wondering.....
My suggestion is for you to try to find a psych who specializes in addictions. Food addiction, other addictions. Maybe your insurance can pay for that?
If not, it it sill less than a one "good" shopping spree (i know that from experience) and it may really help you. They may also recommend some 'happy" pills to help you with filling a void of food addiction.
Hala. RNY 5/14/2008; Happy At Goal =HAG
"I can eat or do anything I want to - as long as I am willing to deal with the consequences"
"Failure is not falling down, It is not getting up once you fell... So pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start all over again...."
Topic: RE: Wondering.....
You should move back this way....hey you should have joined us Saturday! We had a blast! Maybe next time!...I am really having to be careful with the shopping. I have never been able to wear "cute" clothes and now that I am at this size it is sooooo hard not to shop! I have put myself on an allowance (weekly) and that is the only $$$ I can spend on clothes....which means that I'll have to save a couple of weeks or months to buy stuff....so this will keep me out of the stores!
Start Weight: 186
Goal Weight: 125
Current Weight: 120 (66 pounds lost)
Size 18 Pants to 4 (Petite)
Size XXL Shirt to Small (Petite)
Goal in 6 1/2 - 7 months
Topic: RE: Wondering.....
Yea I'm not sure if going to SA meetings and being surrounded by men would benefit me, thats like going to AA and it being held in a bar.... hmmm
Topic: RE: Wondering.....
I think you are going to find a number of people who post on here who are experiencing cross addictions. Primarily alcohol or prescription drugs; however, there are lots of other cross addictions - as your are suspecting - such as shopping, sex, gambling, etc.
There are therapists who specialize in cross addiction and/or dual-diagnosis clients - I would imagine you can find one in Baton Rogue. There are 12 step programs for sex addicts - I have to say I am not sure how comfortable you would be there as what I understand from the little bit of learning I have had about SA - it is generally men.
Anne
There are therapists who specialize in cross addiction and/or dual-diagnosis clients - I would imagine you can find one in Baton Rogue. There are 12 step programs for sex addicts - I have to say I am not sure how comfortable you would be there as what I understand from the little bit of learning I have had about SA - it is generally men.
Anne
Topic: RE: Wondering.....
Hi Lynn, I'm originally from Denham! I just moved to BR to be closer to work, haha considering moving to watson though cause I miss LP so much!
ANYWAYS, yeah mine is Shopping and Sex..... It's a really REALLY hard battle it is seriously worse than anything I've ever had to deal with before and I just dont know what to do. They dont have support groups for this as far as I know?
ANYWAYS, yeah mine is Shopping and Sex..... It's a really REALLY hard battle it is seriously worse than anything I've ever had to deal with before and I just dont know what to do. They dont have support groups for this as far as I know?
Topic: RE: Wondering.....
You mean like excessive shopping???? Smoking, drinking....things like that? I know people that do exchange the eating for other things.....I am trying reallllly hard NOT to do the shopping! (But it is hard when you can, for the first time ever) shop in the nice stores and get small sizes!
Start Weight: 186
Goal Weight: 125
Current Weight: 120 (66 pounds lost)
Size 18 Pants to 4 (Petite)
Size XXL Shirt to Small (Petite)
Goal in 6 1/2 - 7 months
Topic: Wondering.....
I was wondering if anyone was experiencing any cross addictions since having WLS? I believe I am experincing them and it's kind of scarey to me.
Topic: ~SPIRITUAL~ A DAY AT A TIME
01/12 REFLECTION FOR THE DAY
When I sit quietly and compare my life today with the way it used to be, the difference is almost beyond belief. But things aren't always rosy; some days are a lot better than others. I tend to accept the bad days more easily on an intellectual level than I do emotionally, or at gut-level. There are no part answers, but part of the solution surely liesin a constant effort to practice all of the Twelve Steps. DO I ACCEPT THE FACT THAT MY HIGHER POWER WILL NEVER GIVE ME MORE THAN I CAN HANDLE -- ONE DAY AT A TIME?
TODAY I PRAY
That I may receive strength in the knowledge that God never gives us more than we can bear, that I can always, somehow, endure present paid, whereas the trials of a lifetime, condensed into one disastrous moment, would surely overcome me. Thanks be to God for giving us only those tribulations which are in proportion to our strength, never destroying us in our frailty. May I remember that fortitude grows our of suffering.
TODAY I WILL REMEMBER
Present pain is endurable.
When I sit quietly and compare my life today with the way it used to be, the difference is almost beyond belief. But things aren't always rosy; some days are a lot better than others. I tend to accept the bad days more easily on an intellectual level than I do emotionally, or at gut-level. There are no part answers, but part of the solution surely liesin a constant effort to practice all of the Twelve Steps. DO I ACCEPT THE FACT THAT MY HIGHER POWER WILL NEVER GIVE ME MORE THAN I CAN HANDLE -- ONE DAY AT A TIME?
TODAY I PRAY
That I may receive strength in the knowledge that God never gives us more than we can bear, that I can always, somehow, endure present paid, whereas the trials of a lifetime, condensed into one disastrous moment, would surely overcome me. Thanks be to God for giving us only those tribulations which are in proportion to our strength, never destroying us in our frailty. May I remember that fortitude grows our of suffering.
TODAY I WILL REMEMBER
Present pain is endurable.
It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end. ~Ursula K. LeGuin
Topic: RE: Support for those w/Alcoholism after surgery
I learned something interesting in my court mandated DUI Risk Reduction Class (yes - me too.. m too)
There is an "invisible line" or switch (they tell you this in AA too) that one crosses when they go from being a problem drinker to an alcoholic. I learned in this class that part of that happens from continuous drinking above one's tolerance level. Think about it. My tolerance was NIL due to how I processed alcohol. So every time I drank a little bit, I got drunk, and it was over my tolerance level. The brain adjusted and began to depend on that effect.
I got sober in 2006, had a relapse and will have gotten a year once again this March. I think part of it is indeed transfer, but part of it is physiological too. Plus I think there is just a component of "ism" type personality too, and I certainly fit there.
You are in good company here!
Love all you guys,
Michelle
There is an "invisible line" or switch (they tell you this in AA too) that one crosses when they go from being a problem drinker to an alcoholic. I learned in this class that part of that happens from continuous drinking above one's tolerance level. Think about it. My tolerance was NIL due to how I processed alcohol. So every time I drank a little bit, I got drunk, and it was over my tolerance level. The brain adjusted and began to depend on that effect.
I got sober in 2006, had a relapse and will have gotten a year once again this March. I think part of it is indeed transfer, but part of it is physiological too. Plus I think there is just a component of "ism" type personality too, and I certainly fit there.
You are in good company here!
Love all you guys,
Michelle
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"God does not care about our mathmatecial difficulties - he integrates emperically!" - Albert Einstein
"God does not care about our mathmatecial difficulties - he integrates emperically!" - Albert Einstein
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