Catching up!!!!!!!!!

[Biscuits]

Hi All

Been away at the weekend and logged in to catch up with whats been going on here, and as usual lots of great support and care being shared around.

One thing i wanted to comment on and speaking only for myself is the attittude to relapsing or slipping with trigger foods. For me there is no differnce between a slip and a relapse because whatever led me into the food whether it be once or more is me choosing to use my drug to not deal with life on lifes terms. I work the twelve steps on my addiction to food and because of that i have been restored to sanity. I don't believe there is any difference to my drug of choice food, or any other drug of choice people have, recovery is available with them all and i get a little miffed when i hear the old saying that just because we have to eat everyday its inevitable that one day we will give into the addiction. If thats the case what the heck are we doing working this program so hard if one day its gong to lead us back into the food. I have been abstinent from all of my trigger food that lead me back into the physical craving of this desease for many years now and for alot of that time boy was i resentful over it. Today i rejoice in the fact that i choose not to introduce food into my body that triggers the desire to eat more of it (My trigger foods are like a loaded gun to me). My desease led my down a very destructive path, one that saw me choosing to try to end it all with a suicide bid so i know that this desease can kill me if not physically than mentally. I take my recovery very personally and also comments about it not being a killing desease. I have lost friends to this desease so i encourage people to get real about it - THIS IS A KILLING DESEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


"We are going to know a new found freedom and a new happiness"
"We will comprehend the word serenity and we will know peace"
"That feeling of uselessness and self-pity will disappear"
"Self seeking will disappear"
"We will intuitively know how to handle situations which used to baffle us"
"We will suddenly realise that God is doing for us what we could not do for ourselves"

These promises from the BIG BOOK are available to us all if we will go to any lengths to achieve them, for me that was to get real about my addiction and start putting action into recovery.

[sista]

Thank you biscut for sharing that with me...
I'm totaly new to all of this and I want recovery. I want what you have..
How did you come to realize what your trigger foods are? And I'm sure you have more then just food triggers, so what are some of your other triggers?

I know a few of my major food triggers. But I'm struggling with WHY I fall for those triggers, what else is a trigger for me. I could be having a wonderful day, no stress, no worries, and I choose to fall for the food triggers. ugh...

I know nobody has the exact answer for me, I know I have to figure out what is MINE. But sometimes I feel like I don't know where to begin.

[Pony]

Biscuits

glad to see you back and that you were able to have some time away. I understand what you are saying about being completely abstinent from all your trigger foods and agree 100% about this being a killing disease. I remember anyone here feeling otherwise, but please remember that there are many here at different levels of their recovery and will come to understand more about this disease as they learn and grow through recovery.

Eating disorders alone have a wide spectrum of issues involved in it's recovery. We have some who can't get food in them, to save their life...ot those that don't keep in in them, to those that put too much in at any given time during the day..... a wide variety of issues here that surround food and whatever their triggers we try to be respectful of all, but can't please everyone here. That's why the support is important to come from those with that experience and share with those of the same. Does that make sense?

I hope so. I'm off for a few days and I hope that all goes well here. Glad to have you here and sharing in your experience..... very important.

[cali]

"We are going to know a new found freedom and a new happiness"
"We will comprehend the word serenity and we will know peace"
"That feeling of uselessness and self-pity will disappear"
"Self seeking will disappear"
"We will intuitively know how to handle situations which used to baffle us"
"We will suddenly realise that God is doing for us what we could not do for ourselves"

A M E N!