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

Adrienne, Pat yourself on the back - acknowledging the food problem puts you that much further ahead. It's okay and natural to mourn - you just lost your best friend/worst enemy. Wait until you can start doing all the things you've only dreamt of - the mourning will be gone and the gratitude and happiness will replace it! Hang in there and enjoy the journey, it's only going to get better and better from here! Denise

Adrienne, I'm sorry I must have missed this post earlier...someone gave me saying before I had surgery: Eat to live not live to eat. I didn't know what she meant until now ~Kristin