Thanksgiving Weekender 22-27 November 2017
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Right on !
Bim I occasionally throw things away to keep from eating it, too. The post-Chritmas leftover desserts are the biggies. In fact, if I toss it at home, I have to pour water on it in the bin, to be sure it is too disgusting to fish back out! Talk about weak! I am quite capable of tossing it, and comparatively incapable of resisting if it is sitting there...just waiting to be eaten.
Same applies to booze. I can handle people drinking around me now, but it is ALL locked up here and I don’t have a key.
Bim I occasionally throw things away to keep from eating it, too. The post-Chritmas leftover desserts are the biggies. In fact, if I toss it at home, I have to pour water on it in the bin, to be sure it is too disgusting to fish back out! Talk about weak! I am quite capable of tossing it, and comparatively incapable of resisting if it is sitting there...just waiting to be eaten.
Same applies to booze. I can handle people drinking around me now, but it is ALL locked up here and I don’t have a key.
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Yep, I've been known to put dish-soapy water on half sleeves of cookies and then bin them.
Catching myself halfway is the trick. In the past I would eat the whole five bags and then feel physically sick the next day. It's not worth it. I do have that moremoremoremore thing with both sugar and alcohol.
Lot of addicts say that quitting sugar is the only way, even people on this site claim complete abstinence from sugar (which, I'm not even sure what that means, maybe "added" sugar?)
I don't think I can do that forever so I don't subscribe to it, but the compulsion is definitely there and it feels the same as alcohol as far as leaving it if it's there.
Catching myself halfway is the trick. In the past I would eat the whole five bags and then feel physically sick the next day. It's not worth it. I do have that moremoremoremore thing with both sugar and alcohol.
Lot of addicts say that quitting sugar is the only way, even people on this site claim complete abstinence from sugar (which, I'm not even sure what that means, maybe "added" sugar?)
I don't think I can do that forever so I don't subscribe to it, but the compulsion is definitely there and it feels the same as alcohol as far as leaving it if it's there.
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Curmudgeons R Us.
Geez (edit) that sounds worse than I meant it to sound. I'm not very social either. Very small doses of humans suffice. I do like big gatherings, though. Like Figgy Pudding!!! I don't actually have to have meaningful conversations with anyone.
Geez (edit) that sounds worse than I meant it to sound. I'm not very social either. Very small doses of humans suffice. I do like big gatherings, though. Like Figgy Pudding!!! I don't actually have to have meaningful conversations with anyone.
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Originally Posted by biminiblue 
Curmudgeons R Us.
I've been isolating far too much lately. I'm quite happy with my own company most of the time until I realize I haven't spoken to anyone for three days & have to make an effort to be sociable.
I'm off to do some volunteering at a local river tomorrow though which I'm quite looking forward to - a bit of company, some exercise in the outdoors & hopefully I won't fall in.
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