Name Your Poison

I was just saw an M&Ms commercial and it made me think of me and my best friend who passed away.  When we were in high school, we pooled our money and bought this old junk car.  We had the best time in that thing!  We also used to keep it stocked with a bag of peanut M&Ms and we called them our 'tranquilizers'. 

Funny how that made me think of you all!  I think everyone of us has 'medicated' with candy and sweets and sugary evilness before...my question is, "What was your drug of choice?"

Mine ALWAYS involves chocolate.  And everybody knows that Chis's involves BUTTERFINGERS!  

Mary

Chocolate !!!

Actually, my drug of choice is: "FOOD". I guess that is why I got so morbidly obese. I get into different moods where I crave a lot of protein, or another mood I would crave sweets or fruits or pasta etc.  I have found out that I over eat these things for many reasons: When I am sad, afraid, lonely, too happy, stressed, etc.( give me a reason and I will eat to it.) Right now I am in a Fruit  addiction. I am having trouble keeping it in the house. Soon it will be over, it will be gone, along with my money. At the top of the list is chocolate: M&M's, Snickers, chocolate Carmel's .... ( some addiction for a diabetic.) I have been trying to find out, what i am trying to hid from,  or cover up about my feelings. The more I think about it, the more I want to eat. I hate food addiction. What other addictions do we have that you have to have 3-5 feedings a day to live? ( and just small amounts.) Well, all is not lost, I have not given up. I am still forging on. I will beat this one way or another.  I am down 129 lbs from my highest weight, I just  hit  this chuck hole in the road and  needing repairs.    Twilight 

Hey Twilight, you and I have lost the same exact amount of weight.  Sounds like the whole food pyramid is your poison!

Yanno, about the fact that no other addiction requires you to ingest the thing that you are addicted to, I used to say that all of the time masself.  But this is what I did to get around that little inconsistency.  I found a diet that restricted all of the things that I was addicted to and found a new way to eat that didn't have all of the evil comfort food carbs.  Girl, if I'm eating a serving of mac and cheese, I'm eating the whole pot of mac and cheese.  I don't regognize portions.  So for me, I know that one will lead to the other, so I avoid carbs like a former junky avoids crack.  It has become a whole new way of eating for me, and now I'm addicted to feeling good.  It may not work for all folks, but we all have to find what we can live with and be SUCCESSFUL with. 

If you're diabetic, I would say become the most informed diabetic on the planet about the disease and how to control it, and then start cooking the best flavored diabetic diet food that you are capable of preparing.  Once you start to eat healthy for your condition, you'll be surprised how much those M&Ms become trash to your pallet.

Mary    

Sweets - cake, ice cream, pie, dark chocolate, cookies, candy, etc.  Difference is that now when I eat sweets, I eat GOOD cake, ice cream, pie, chocolate, candy.  I don't waste calories on what I consider crap (regular ice cream, hostess cupcakes,  store bought cookies, etc.).  Ok, well I guess even GOOD sweets are crap but I still eat 'em on occasion.

I get what you mean, though! Was a day when so much crap was tossed down the hatch - now it's gotta make the grade. High quality chocolate...heavy cream, etc.

Yep, back in the day, whoofing down anything that would give into a craving no matter what the quality, for me was nervana.  To think I used to savor a Twinkie!!!  Talk about sick.

Now if I'm going to indulge in chocolate, it had better be Fererro Roche'!  That's the only thing I can think of that I would eat that would risk my new blouses being too tight for!  

Mary

Left to my own devices and preferences, I would subside on pasta, potatoes, fruit, bread & butter and cheese. Chips & salsa could be right up there, too. CARBO Freak!

EVERYTHING else I eat is b/c they tell me it's good for me.

PS:  I have had periods of my life where sweets were part of it, but I cannot say choco was the biggest part of it, just so it was very sweet, gloppy like puddings - again heavy on the carbs for me.

Oh how could I forget chips and salsa?  Add that to my list ;-)

 Neecee, I seem to recall that one of the first things I ever read about you was that you like foods that 'slide' down your throat.  No wonder you like pudding so much. 

And as much as you Kimmie like chips and salsa, I'm surprised you don't both weight 300 pounds!

Mary

Well I used to weigh close to 300 pounds and I ate chips and salsa several times a week.  Now, if I eat chips and salsa once a month, I'm splurging!!  And, I used to eat baskets of them; now not so many 'cuz the 128th chip tastes the same as the 1st chip.