Bright Line
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Bright Line
Hey everyone!
I've been lurking but not posting (not much to say when stuck on endless day ones and trying to make a plan that works). I've been frustrated with my eating during the day (just piles of bread and fast food and sugar and total crap) and my drinking at night and started to suspect they might be connected. I've found a number of resources that link sugar and alcohol addiction and state that eating sweets in recovery can overwhelm your dopamine processors (the way alcohol/drugs/etc do) and prevent them from resetting to pre-alcohol levels, thus triggering cravings as your body needs more to feel normal. (The author of my diet book put it brilliantly when she said that people who abuse drugs aren't trying to get high, they're trying to feel normal. That described my drinking perfectly! I was just trying to feel normal.)
So my new diet has four "bright lines"... in other words, absolute and defined boundaries that do not get crossed. Although alcohol technically counts as sugar (one of the primary bright lines) I think it deserves a separate bright line, a boundary not EVER to be crossed in my journey to heal my body not of ONE addiction or poison, but of all of them.
So, it's technically another day one, but one that didn't begin with biscuits (american style) for breakfast and sugar in my coffee and christmas cookies before lunch. And I feel hungry but clean. SO we'll see how it goes from here. Normally I'd start a diet or a "dryathalon" in January, but I just don't want to feel like crap another day!
Disclaimer: I'm not promoting a diet or claiming it's the thing that's going to fix everyone's problem. I'm just saying that it resonated with me and sounds like a valid step in my efforts.
Hope everyone is surviving the last of the holidays and finishing the year strong. Best of luck to all of you... I appreciate reading posts and seeing where people are, good or bad... I appreciate honestly and vulnerability, and like to see that we are all on different places in the same journey.
Note: I SPELLED LINE WRONG IN THE TITLE AND IT WON'T LET ME FIX IT!
That's what I get for not previewing my post.
I've been lurking but not posting (not much to say when stuck on endless day ones and trying to make a plan that works). I've been frustrated with my eating during the day (just piles of bread and fast food and sugar and total crap) and my drinking at night and started to suspect they might be connected. I've found a number of resources that link sugar and alcohol addiction and state that eating sweets in recovery can overwhelm your dopamine processors (the way alcohol/drugs/etc do) and prevent them from resetting to pre-alcohol levels, thus triggering cravings as your body needs more to feel normal. (The author of my diet book put it brilliantly when she said that people who abuse drugs aren't trying to get high, they're trying to feel normal. That described my drinking perfectly! I was just trying to feel normal.)
So my new diet has four "bright lines"... in other words, absolute and defined boundaries that do not get crossed. Although alcohol technically counts as sugar (one of the primary bright lines) I think it deserves a separate bright line, a boundary not EVER to be crossed in my journey to heal my body not of ONE addiction or poison, but of all of them.
So, it's technically another day one, but one that didn't begin with biscuits (american style) for breakfast and sugar in my coffee and christmas cookies before lunch. And I feel hungry but clean. SO we'll see how it goes from here. Normally I'd start a diet or a "dryathalon" in January, but I just don't want to feel like crap another day!
Disclaimer: I'm not promoting a diet or claiming it's the thing that's going to fix everyone's problem. I'm just saying that it resonated with me and sounds like a valid step in my efforts.
Hope everyone is surviving the last of the holidays and finishing the year strong. Best of luck to all of you... I appreciate reading posts and seeing where people are, good or bad... I appreciate honestly and vulnerability, and like to see that we are all on different places in the same journey.
Note: I SPELLED LINE WRONG IN THE TITLE AND IT WON'T LET ME FIX IT!
That's what I get for not previewing my post.
Last edited by Opivotal; 12-29-2018 at 11:11 AM. Reason: mis-spelled word
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Originally Posted by PalmerSage 
Welcome back, Lipstuck! Just curious, how long have you been sober?
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