I'm an addict

Well time to fess up, I am indeed an addict! I am a carb and sugar addict and just like a drug addict, even 1 bite leads to my insanity. I paid a lot of $ to have a RNY and was down to 145 lbs, 7 years later I was 183. I again have spent a lot of $, but this time I am working with an individual who works on accountability and breaking the addictive cycle. I lost 7 lbs in the first month and was eating more than enough food. But yet again I have relapsed, so again, i pick myself up and start the sugar detox. I do not even drink SF drinks or chew sugarless gum, as it all leads to the same thing.....addictive cravings.

My weight will never be under control, as long as the addictive monster is being fed. What keeps you fat?

It sucks that I can't eat flour, splenda, sugar, corn, highly processed foods, but we all have something. I am allergic to sugar...others are allergic to milk or eggs.

Some have diabetes, some have mental illness, some have cancer, some are crippled, some have learning disabilities. This is my disability. So I am different... aren't we all.

The sooner I learn to accept this, and yes it sucks...the better I will be.


Just remember the tast of the bait isn't worth the pain of the hook

Hi Melinda,

Your post sounds like you've been in my head.  I too like so many others have the same problem.  It doesn't take much to get me off track.  Cookies, candy and cake....all things that help to pile the weight on.

I wake up every morning with good intentions, but something that I shouldn't have always draws my attention.  Well, today is a new day and just as long as we don't give up we will get there.

Dreamgirl119

 Dreamgirl  - 'm back and so glad to see a familiar face (I guess I should say a familiar icon)  How are you doing?  Well I hope 

 I agree. It's so hard. I was down to 117 and I am up to 150 now. We can do this. Remember even if you screw up one snack doesn't mean you have to eat that way the whole day. That's the hardest thing for me to remember. If I would use it as a whole cheat day. 

Hi Melinda
I think most of us on this site have food issues.  I actually lost weight 110 lbs. before surgery from 1988 to 2002 (what can I say I lose slowly).  In the end I realized I can't eat any of the products you mentioned.  I am off them for almost 10 years and I still can't keep them in my house. 

I hope you read my little post about breaking bad habits.  It was not my idea but a good one.  Basically you are not giving up those foods you just have to learn to replace them.  I only buy King Arthur's white whole wheat flour and use it to bake with and I use a lot of fruit and veggies in my recipes.  I eat 100% whole grain prebaked breads.  I use quinoa pasta or whole wheat pasta.  I eat yams and brown rice.  I make my own soups with broth and non starch veggies.  I find I have been able to cut down many calories over the years.  I still have to eat 300 less calories a day though.  I am such a non junk food eater but I still eat too much of the healthy foods.  My blood work is very good because I eat so healthy.   Even my cholesterol is 172 without meds.  I agree we all have our issues and mine is eating consistently a little too much food every day which is hard because I have to try to eat a little less all the time which leaves me continually hungry.  Not for comfort food or junk food but a couple more bites of meat or an extra plain Greek yogurt or an extra piece of fruit which in the end of the day is 300 to 400 calories.  Unfortunately a calorie is a calorie.  I can't cut out the "candy bar" or sugar soda or piece of cake and replace it with something nutritious because I haven't eaten those for 10 years.  I have to cut out the nutritious food and be hungry.  

Good luck to you.  It sounds like you are on the right track and will meet your goal quickly.  

Just me 

I sooooo know how you feel.  I need to accept that I'm a carb addict too.  They are evil!!!  I think there should be a carboholics anonymous like A A.......


I wish you well!!  We can do this!!!

Best,
Linda

 There is - it's called Overeaters Anonymous.  Meetings all over the world.  Google it. 

Oh my gosh.... this is my battle cry.. and unlike you, I have let it get way out of control.
I started at 326 also... today I'm 267... I can't believe it.  I am not only an addict, but a mindless eating addict.  I start the day with self-talk, a plan, and if I'm around sugar or carbs, without thought it's in my mouth.

I've started a good exercise plan with a trainer.  I can check exercise off the list... I've just got to get my mindless head "lust" not "hunger" under control.  Yes, sadly, this is a lifelong battle for me.  I wish I dumped on sugar.  I never did.  The battle continues.  I can't go back to 326, although my actions would say I must want to!

The fight continues!

Thanks to eat of you for your reply.
Jewell, I tell myself continually, that i have had 41 years of eating the junk, yes... I know what it tates like and it is good, but 41 years is enough.

Linda, there is a barboholics group. It is called OA ( overeaters anoynmous) Many people there deal with these issues.

I have gone very radical in that I don't eat anything with flour or wheat in it. My grains are quinoa, buckwheat, brown rice, or a yam. or plain baked potato.

Nothing processed

I also write my menu each night and have a contact to call when I am about cave....
we can do this

Now I need to get back to the exercise

LOL " thanks to eat of you" That really is a subconcious blooper... see how deeply food is ingrained in my mind.

Thanks to EACH is what it should read...Okay, time for BF.