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[Debs UK]

Just joined, never ever been on chat site before, bulimia and alcohol are destroying my life, got to start somewhere!

[Pony]

Debs,

Well welcome to our little home. Help begins when you realize that you need it and reach out to others for it. This is a great place to start.

Please let us know a little about you (whatever you are comfortable sharing) and feel free to do reading around here and get to know us a bit and we can go from there.

Congratulations on bringing a new start to your life. Each and every day is a new beginning for a life changing adventure! I know for me I try very hard to focus on making healthy eating and healthy choices for my life each and every day. No, it's not easy.....but practice makes better.....not perfection!

Prefection makes life to dull and drives us all insane ! lol

Welcome again and looking forward to getting to know you.

Pony

[Paulie]

Hi Debs and welcome.

[boop64132]

Welcome Debs,
Glad you are here!!
Betty

[QTpie]

Hi Debs,

Welcome!!! Take a look around this is a great place to start a new begining. Hope you keep comin'

Colleen

[Bonni]

Hi Debs,
Welcome, you have come to the right place, there are some very helpful and supportive people here. Keep coming back. ((big hugs)) Love Bonni

[Laci]

I am hopping on board at this forum also. I want to learn to eat healthy now that I am sober. Thanks Pony for directing me over here.

Love,
Laci
(Hi Bonni!)

[Bonni]

((Laci)) ((hugs))
Same thing with me, I'm going to start to try to eat healthier like you say. I'v come here a few times before, but like Pony says help begins when you realize you need it, and what I'v been doing so far with my eating disorders is NOT working, so I'm reaching out for help from others. Now if I can just get rid of this chocolate thingy. (LOL) Love Bonni

[Laci]

Hi Bonni, Hugs to you sister....we can do this also. I too am glad Pony suggested coming over here. I totally believe this will help! I know this darn chocolate thing is out of control for me. I have suddenly began eating cake and ice cream for dinner! Honest...that is wierd huh. My husband is like "are we ever going to have a decent normal dinner again!" So tonight, chicken pot pie and I didn't buy ice cream today. Yikes...I'm becoming a sugar addict now! Off the booze...onto a new addiction. Well, we just have to take this one day at a time. Just like drinking.

Love you Bonni...you are a true friend. I love this entire site and glad to find this forum!

Love,
Laci
(drinking tons of water...avoiding M&M's)

[Juls]

Welcome to all of you. I have heard other people who have come off alcohol say they had very strong sugar cravings.

I know for me, after I quit opiates my appetite increased tremendously, and I could taste food again. I had to be pretty careful with my eating.

I've lost fifteen pounds over the past few months, but I still need to work at eating healthy. I am very glad to have the support of this site. We can all do it, and remember "progress, not perfection."

Juls

[Laci]

Thank you Juls! Yup, progress, not perfection. I needed to hear that this morning.

Now I am really concious of my eating after coming off the alcohol/drugs and even though I made those pot pies last night, I didn't eat much of mine but found myself watching Law & Order last night with a bag of Salt & Vinagar Chips in my lap...then I had M&M's for breakfast. What the heck is up with this!!! I have lost 13 lbs since quitting the drugs/booze but now I'm craving things at the strangest times (and the strangest things!)

When I was in my early 20's I was bulimic and anorexic. Once I didn't eat for 31 days...just drank cranberry juice. If I did that now I would probably have a heart attack! I was in the AA program back then and my sponsor kept saying eat...eat!!! Well now I eat too much junk and I never liked M&M's or potato chips so why am I craving this junk now? I keep going to different web sites trying to find the newest Diet Fad of the week and printing them out, saying okay...I'll do this one but I'll start tomorrow. Just like when I wanted to quit drinking...I would always do that "tomorrow."

I keep telling myself that I have quit drinking so now it is okay to eat junk as I used to put so much booze in my system and so now I am replacing the wasted calories with more wasted calories!

Thanks for the welcome...I think this place is really going to help me, one hour/day at a time.

Love,
Laci
(Dislikes Potato Chips but is craving them!!)
(Multiple Addictions)

[bobm]

Thanks for veryone's sharing. I'm also sober a number of years but have gotten severely overweight in last several years following a major depressive episode. I didn't drink, and I'm off antidepressants now, but overeating starches and sweets has gotten me in a health jam just like the booze did. I had already started back to OA... it worked for me when I got to meetings regularly... and have an appointment with a dietitian for a food plan. I saw my new doctor today and hope I can use your help the way AA works for me.
All the positive sharing on the forum helped me today. My weight was higher than I suspected--290 lbs-- and I was able to avoid attacking myself by confirming my meeting schedule and hearing your experiences on this forum. Taking action. I am grateful I can get to "live" meetings, but just writing this post is helping me open up and get more honest about where things really stand... while remembering there is a solution.
Thanks everybody.
BobM

[Pony]

bobm,

I'd like to welcome you here and say that it is great to have a guy come in! You sound like you are well on your way to getting started. Congrats. on making those wonderful steps towards a healthier life style.

Feel free to start your own post here and many will jump in with their two cents.... .lol we have lots of fun around here also along with the great supportive people. Feel free to share with us whatever you would like to.

Looking forward to getting to know you better.

Pony