Originally Posted by
MaggieJ 
Just found this thread and going to read from the beginning on. Eight months sober but realizing I’ve replaced alcohol with allowing myself to eat everything and anything - rationalizing that I’m saving all those calories from alcohol so why not. Need to get it under control but not sure I have it in me within the same year I quit drinking.
Hi Maggie, glad to have you join this thread. I relate to what you share, I did the same. When I quit alcohol I gained rather a lot of weight.
Which annoyed me greatly as usually people seem to lose weight and bloat when they quit. In reality all I had done was change one sugary mind altering substance for another.
My food addiction started decades before my alcohol one, so I was just exchanging one for another each time.
I didnt realise that back then, of course.