Sugar Addiction Recovery Thread Part 3
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There are many helpful benefits that come
with drinking warm lemon water the first
thing in the morning, even before coffee if
you go to google and read up on it.
That is usually what I do and did first
thing this morning before I drank my
coffee.
Im not really sure at this moment what
all I will eat today but will stay along the
same routine that ive been following for
months now.
Yesterday I had a piece of baked fish I
got from my deli in place of the normal
frozen Tilapia or Salmon I often have along
with some asparagus and organic pumpkin.
Later I made me a smoothie using cucumber,
banana, protein powder, kale, soymilk. This
made a lot and filled me up quite a bit.
Snack was some organic cherry tomatoes,
celery sticks and small hummus.
Using my recovery program to help me
remain sober each day and learning new
ways to eat healthier to achieve balance
in my everyday life takes willingness, open
mindedness and honesty.
Can't do one without the others moving
forward with each positive step we take.
with drinking warm lemon water the first
thing in the morning, even before coffee if
you go to google and read up on it.
That is usually what I do and did first
thing this morning before I drank my
coffee.
Im not really sure at this moment what
all I will eat today but will stay along the
same routine that ive been following for
months now.
Yesterday I had a piece of baked fish I
got from my deli in place of the normal
frozen Tilapia or Salmon I often have along
with some asparagus and organic pumpkin.
Later I made me a smoothie using cucumber,
banana, protein powder, kale, soymilk. This
made a lot and filled me up quite a bit.
Snack was some organic cherry tomatoes,
celery sticks and small hummus.
Using my recovery program to help me
remain sober each day and learning new
ways to eat healthier to achieve balance
in my everyday life takes willingness, open
mindedness and honesty.
Can't do one without the others moving
forward with each positive step we take.
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Join Date: Oct 2017
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Thoroughly enjoyed my safe food today.
Had a few challenges that came up which in the past would have had me screaming and being obnoxious. Of course then blaming the other person for "making" me act like that!
Today, I am pleased to be able to say I dealt with it all calmly, politely and quietly.
Had a few challenges that came up which in the past would have had me screaming and being obnoxious. Of course then blaming the other person for "making" me act like that!
Today, I am pleased to be able to say I dealt with it all calmly, politely and quietly.
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Baton Rouge, La.
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There have been a many occasions where
back in the day I would reach for alcohol
to deal with whatever situation arose and
ruffled my feathers. Anything to calm the
nerves, put the fire of hatred, resentments,
all sorts of human emotions.
After I learned how to stop reaching for
poison to help solve those problems, I
realized that daily life was still nipping
at my heels and needed another vice to
reach for to deal with them.
That next addiction was food. Sure,
what better way to tell them off, get
my way and satisfaction or get even
than to eat my weight in gold with ice cream,
or many other unhealthy foods.
Im glad you are learning how to solve
lifes situations with healthier choices.
I don't know why it has taken me so long
to finally say enough is enough with bad
eating habits. I mean, ive tried countless
times in my life to stop the insanity of eating
foods that are not good for me.
Maybe im realizing that im not getting
younger and unhealthy foods are not
disappearing. As long as the bad foods
are available, folks are gonna eat them
until they wise up, learn or be taught
about the dangers that come with eating
addictions.
So each day I remind myself that there
is a list of good foods I can replace the
bad ones with, make my list and stick to
it. Which means, for me......there is NO more.....
ice cream
fried foods
chips
candy with the exception of a small piece of
organic cacoa chocolate (2 small squares) a day
pizza
fast foods
no dairy
preservative foods
soda
refine white sugar
white foods like white rice, white potatoes
I first went thru the anger of loosing all
those foods and then became wise to the affects
they had on my own body and turn to acceptance.
It's a process to go thru in order to begin
to see the progress of living with a healthy
mind and body.
Keep up the good work...!!!!
back in the day I would reach for alcohol
to deal with whatever situation arose and
ruffled my feathers. Anything to calm the
nerves, put the fire of hatred, resentments,
all sorts of human emotions.
After I learned how to stop reaching for
poison to help solve those problems, I
realized that daily life was still nipping
at my heels and needed another vice to
reach for to deal with them.
That next addiction was food. Sure,
what better way to tell them off, get
my way and satisfaction or get even
than to eat my weight in gold with ice cream,
or many other unhealthy foods.
Im glad you are learning how to solve
lifes situations with healthier choices.
I don't know why it has taken me so long
to finally say enough is enough with bad
eating habits. I mean, ive tried countless
times in my life to stop the insanity of eating
foods that are not good for me.
Maybe im realizing that im not getting
younger and unhealthy foods are not
disappearing. As long as the bad foods
are available, folks are gonna eat them
until they wise up, learn or be taught
about the dangers that come with eating
addictions.
So each day I remind myself that there
is a list of good foods I can replace the
bad ones with, make my list and stick to
it. Which means, for me......there is NO more.....
ice cream
fried foods
chips
candy with the exception of a small piece of
organic cacoa chocolate (2 small squares) a day
pizza
fast foods
no dairy
preservative foods
soda
refine white sugar
white foods like white rice, white potatoes
I first went thru the anger of loosing all
those foods and then became wise to the affects
they had on my own body and turn to acceptance.
It's a process to go thru in order to begin
to see the progress of living with a healthy
mind and body.
Keep up the good work...!!!!
Member
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Baton Rouge, La.
Posts: 15,252
A helpful reminder to myself today is....
Remain responsible for my actions when
it comes to sobriety and food.
To be kind to myself as I continue on this
journey making healthy changes and choices
that will reflect the person I am and want
to continue being.
It has taken minutes, hours, days, months
and yrs to put the extra unwanted weight
on myself and that it wont come off with a
snap of a finger.
Today I will not eat anything to add unwanted
weight to my existing weight. I want to take what
I have and get rid of it. With each passing day that
I exercise and eat healthy then the weight will
eventually disappear. In time tho.
If the unhealthy food is not in the
house and I don't buy it for myself
then I wont eat it.
Remember that everyone's situation is
different and some of us may have family
with little ones to feed as well as a spouse
and cooking will need to be done.
However, like in my own situation, im
retired and only have my spouse and
each of us does our own thing when it
comes to food.
All, I can do is set an example of how I
am changing the way I eat and the foods
I buy and that's about all the control I have.
If my husband sees me being responsible
in how I eat then hopefully he will jump on
the band wagon of wanting to eat healthy
too......and he has taken note and is trying
with small steps too.
Anyway....
This morning I started off with warm
lemon water before my coffee followed
by oatmeal with blueberries, hemp seeds,
flax seeds, chia seeds and sliced almonds.
Full and filling.
Im heading to the store to get a bag
of lemons and mealworms for my little
feather friends. Oh an a bag of steamable
asparagus in the frozen section.
What is your plan and responsibility
for today?
Remain responsible for my actions when
it comes to sobriety and food.
To be kind to myself as I continue on this
journey making healthy changes and choices
that will reflect the person I am and want
to continue being.
It has taken minutes, hours, days, months
and yrs to put the extra unwanted weight
on myself and that it wont come off with a
snap of a finger.
Today I will not eat anything to add unwanted
weight to my existing weight. I want to take what
I have and get rid of it. With each passing day that
I exercise and eat healthy then the weight will
eventually disappear. In time tho.
If the unhealthy food is not in the
house and I don't buy it for myself
then I wont eat it.
Remember that everyone's situation is
different and some of us may have family
with little ones to feed as well as a spouse
and cooking will need to be done.
However, like in my own situation, im
retired and only have my spouse and
each of us does our own thing when it
comes to food.
All, I can do is set an example of how I
am changing the way I eat and the foods
I buy and that's about all the control I have.
If my husband sees me being responsible
in how I eat then hopefully he will jump on
the band wagon of wanting to eat healthy
too......and he has taken note and is trying
with small steps too.
Anyway....
This morning I started off with warm
lemon water before my coffee followed
by oatmeal with blueberries, hemp seeds,
flax seeds, chia seeds and sliced almonds.
Full and filling.
Im heading to the store to get a bag
of lemons and mealworms for my little
feather friends. Oh an a bag of steamable
asparagus in the frozen section.
What is your plan and responsibility
for today?
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Join Date: Dec 2017
Posts: 84
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.
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Originally Posted by Ringo123 
I was away on vacation but back now--gratefully still sober and abstinent. It really is possible to eat sanely, peacefully (and deliciously) one day at a time no matter what.
Peace to all.
Peace to all.
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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.
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.
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I mentioned that I was starting to get a reaction to fruit. So I took it from my meal plan for a while, I noticed a quiet mind.
Put fruit back in for a couple days, my mind a swirling mass of repetitive thoughts and insane plans of ice cream binge.
Have today removed it from my food plan and will await my mind going quiet again.
Fruit, sadly, is definitely an alcoholic food for me.
Put fruit back in for a couple days, my mind a swirling mass of repetitive thoughts and insane plans of ice cream binge.
Have today removed it from my food plan and will await my mind going quiet again.
Fruit, sadly, is definitely an alcoholic food for me.
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Checking in for a day of safe eating. Got a fun gym class first thing. Retro aerobics followed by Pilates.
So currently my safe non-alcoholic foods are -
meat, fish, poultry, dairy, wholegrain carbs, veg, salad.
water, tea, coffee
So currently my safe non-alcoholic foods are -
meat, fish, poultry, dairy, wholegrain carbs, veg, salad.
water, tea, coffee
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Welcome Maggie.
Peaceful, food was my first love too. And it was the last addiction to go. Booze, men, depression and drugs were in between!
Fruit can be a problem for me too. It's not a trigger food or as you rightly described it (alcoholic food), it upsets my stomach.
Sharon, no kids in my house either. I'm thankful that my husband will eat whatever is made for dinner. IE, we don't have to make two separate meals, we eat together and for the most part, eat the same thing. We either fix the meal together, he starts it and we finish it, I start it and we finish it, and there's times when I prepare the entire meal.
Happy, safe weekend to all!
Peaceful, food was my first love too. And it was the last addiction to go. Booze, men, depression and drugs were in between!
Fruit can be a problem for me too. It's not a trigger food or as you rightly described it (alcoholic food), it upsets my stomach.
Sharon, no kids in my house either. I'm thankful that my husband will eat whatever is made for dinner. IE, we don't have to make two separate meals, we eat together and for the most part, eat the same thing. We either fix the meal together, he starts it and we finish it, I start it and we finish it, and there's times when I prepare the entire meal.
Happy, safe weekend to all!
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Originally Posted by Ringo123
Welcome Maggie.
Peaceful, food was my first love too. And it was the last addiction to go. Booze, men, depression and drugs were in between!
Fruit can be a problem for me too. It's not a trigger food or as you rightly described it (alcoholic food), it upsets my stomach.
Peaceful, food was my first love too. And it was the last addiction to go. Booze, men, depression and drugs were in between!
Fruit can be a problem for me too. It's not a trigger food or as you rightly described it (alcoholic food), it upsets my stomach.
I think I started with food simply because as a kid it was easily available to me. It was the solution to how frightened and insecure I felt growing up in an alcoholic home. Numbed the fear down.
Screaming, critical mum and drunk dad. Sweet stuff quietened it down a bit.
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Enjoyed the day on my Food Plan. Lots of energy, clear head and feel happy.
Lots going on today that would have had me feeling bad tempered and impatient but today I did not experience this. I felt calm and relaxed.
Lots going on today that would have had me feeling bad tempered and impatient but today I did not experience this. I felt calm and relaxed.
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Hey Peaceful, sounds like we grew up in the same family! My mom didn't scream though.
Gals, I feel fat today but I know I am not. Knowing it doesn't make the feeling go away though. Interesting that I didn't feel fat until after a phone call with my sister. I am flying to Colo to go with her to a "Vision For You Big Book Retreat". The AV4U OA is very strict, maybe even stricter than FA.
I don't particularly like to be around skinny OA's. Yeah, I'm judgmental. My mind starts to compare and I gently release the thought. I am not overweight, somewhat muscular with womanly curves in all the right places, yet my disease knows how to get to me.
Thankfully, program has taught me to talk back to the disease, what SR folks call AV, I believe. Oh, I talk back to it letting the thoughts/feelings wash over me like a wave going back to the sea, and then I turn my attention to being of service.
Healthy, happy day wished for all.
Gals, I feel fat today but I know I am not. Knowing it doesn't make the feeling go away though. Interesting that I didn't feel fat until after a phone call with my sister. I am flying to Colo to go with her to a "Vision For You Big Book Retreat". The AV4U OA is very strict, maybe even stricter than FA.
I don't particularly like to be around skinny OA's. Yeah, I'm judgmental. My mind starts to compare and I gently release the thought. I am not overweight, somewhat muscular with womanly curves in all the right places, yet my disease knows how to get to me.
Thankfully, program has taught me to talk back to the disease, what SR folks call AV, I believe. Oh, I talk back to it letting the thoughts/feelings wash over me like a wave going back to the sea, and then I turn my attention to being of service.
Healthy, happy day wished for all.
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Still feeling a bit off. Not serene and peaceful. But not crazy either. Delicious, abstinent dinner last night. Mr. Ringo and I walked the dog after dinner. A very nice evening. So what the heck is wrong with me?!
There's nothing wrong with me. Just being human. Life is going to happen, hormones do their thing, I'm aging (as everyone does), etc.
What I focus on grows. Ok, I know that. I tell sponsees that frequently. I now turn my focus on gratitude that I'm alive, healthy, sober and abstinent.
Wishing all (including me) a good weekend. Take care.
There's nothing wrong with me. Just being human. Life is going to happen, hormones do their thing, I'm aging (as everyone does), etc.
What I focus on grows. Ok, I know that. I tell sponsees that frequently. I now turn my focus on gratitude that I'm alive, healthy, sober and abstinent.
Wishing all (including me) a good weekend. Take care.
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Truth is I didn't have a wonderful weekend. My energy was low and I actually got depressed. Not the awful, stay in a dark room kind of depression that I used to live in years ago.
Thankfully I went to a meeting every day (one OA, two AA) but I didn't make phone calls so in essence, I did isolate. Technically I stayed abstinent but I stretched that food plan to almost its breaking point.
Yesterday I stayed on target (food, exercise, quiet time) and called my sponsor to tell her what happened. Today is a new day and I feel better.
The miracle of all this is that I didn't have to binge, eat huge amounts of food or throw up or exercise for hours because of what happens in my brain from time to time. One result of this experience is that I have more compassion for those that have more serious mental illness.
Peace to all.
Thankfully I went to a meeting every day (one OA, two AA) but I didn't make phone calls so in essence, I did isolate. Technically I stayed abstinent but I stretched that food plan to almost its breaking point.
Yesterday I stayed on target (food, exercise, quiet time) and called my sponsor to tell her what happened. Today is a new day and I feel better.
The miracle of all this is that I didn't have to binge, eat huge amounts of food or throw up or exercise for hours because of what happens in my brain from time to time. One result of this experience is that I have more compassion for those that have more serious mental illness.
Peace to all.
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