Really Stinkin' Thinkin'

I have to fight myself to post because, right now, I'm maintaining with relative ease.  I feel guilty because so many who are motivated to post are struggling and I'm not.  And yet, I know beyond any doubt that they only reason I am able to maintain is because I come here and post where I know people care.

I'm wondering if those of you who are out there lurking think like I'm thinking?  (Remember, making sense IS NOT the minimum daily requirement (regardless of body weight) for being a human being - I'm sure living proof of that!!!!)

Thank you for caring and thank you for your patience with me.  I pledge to believe I do not have to struggle to be accepted here - for I need you all so very very much.

A ray of hope and sunshine.  Maybe -- just maybe-- it won't always be a struggle for me and if I'll do what you do - post etc... I can get to that place.

Post away!

Thank you Trudy for your kind words.  We make our own struggles with our thinking.  We are used to using food to soothe ourselves and until we put non-food soothers in place and deal with those issues that cause us to need soothing we are doomed to struggle.  I'm 4 years out from my surgery and constantly dealing with my thinking/emotions.  You can do it too!!!  Belive in yourself.  Now I'm not saying every day is easy - it sure isn't, but every day we have choices - and being human, some days we choose wisely and some days we don't.

Happy, you are one of the very reasons I came back to BOTT after being absent for a while.  Your positive feed back and warm encouragement is exactly what is needed.  I am working for the day when I can do the same for someone else.

Thank you so much for telling me that.  I do so want to share with others for my being able to maintain for the first time in my life still is a miracle so far as I'm concerned and I've been able to do it because of the caring I've found here.

It's really impossible to give help without also receiving help at the same time

Have a wonderful BOTT day.

Happy

you are an inspiration to me, we need you here to give balance and wisdom.

I love hearing how you maintain and for your experience and your wonderful friendship and sence of humour.

Please dont think you need to be anything other than yourself to be accepted here

Ruth

Ruth - Thank you for your kind words.  It means so much to me to know that I have been able to help someone else.  I love Ralph Waldo Emerson's quote - "To share often and much, to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived --- this is to have succeeded."  Thank you for letting me know that, today, I have succeeded. 

with this criteria Happy you succeed more days than not...

WoW!!!

Listen here LADY, don't make me come to Florida to kick your skinny arse. You cared about me when I went AWOL. YOU ARE THE REASON I AM STILL HERE FIGHTING THE FIGHT!!! Without success stories to encourage us and show us it is possible it is harder. Without you, Cathy, Sion, Kathy and all the other wonderful people I have met and come to admire I hate to think where I'd be right now. I have never met you but I love you and look forward to seeing your posts.