Re: cooladdict@... - Addiction

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In a message dated 6/7/2008 12:56:34 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, cooladdict@... writes:

the weakest--portion control. The fact that I CAN'T gorge myself is comforting

This is the key for me, too. A few words, a big idea!

Thanks,

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How right you are! I remember obsessing over food at a very young age. My parents. especially my dad, didn't understand it. He always made me feel worse about myself with his comments, leading to more obsessive behavior. The thing is, I can stay away from drugs and alcohol easily. Food...not so much. I stil fight the urge to "pig out". even though now that means eating my 1/2 cup of food fast and furiously, or to drink when I eat, which allows me to eat more. I am always aware that I have a tool, and that if I don't utilized my tool the way it was mean to be utilized, I can fail at this. Failure can cause drastic medical consequences, and that is what keeps me in check. Ususally.

I knew that banding was going to be the perfect tool for me because it helps me where I am the weakest--portion control. The fact that I CAN'T gorge myself is comforting, because left to my own devices, I will choose wrong. Addiction is addiction, it just manifests itself in different ways in my life. Thank God for my tool and my support!

From: Biocleanhelp@... <Biocleanhelp@...>Subject: cooladdict@... - Addiction Date: Saturday, June 7, 2008, 5:55 AM

The below story from cooladdict (DOT) com is one of those stories that we read about far too seldom.

Drug addiction is monstrous, and I find that food addiction may come from the same place way down deep.

Addiction is in fact a big green monster buried deep within each of us. So long as we keep it in check, we can manage in our world of temptations. Once loose, the temptations become trading posts between the green monster and the inner-most parts of our Being. Day by day we lose our reason to the green monster of addiction. We become a creature caught between pain and pleasure as the addiction monster trades pleasure for pieces of our humanness. We willingly and reluctantly sell-off our reason for swift moments of satiation..

I worked with heroin addicts for 6 years and they used to say that I would never understand because I had not used heroin -- I had never experienced that all powerful first high, which is what they chase the rest of their lives. They were probably correct, but I know from food's power to satiate and help calm the nerves that I too was an addict, just an addict addicted to that pleasure that come from filling the stomach and attacking food in my mouth.

In a message dated 6/6/2008 8:57:06 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, cooladdict (DOT) com writes:

I have a website, wwwdoggybooty. com, that I set up

about a year ago. It is a lot of fun. I put it together, decided on which products to sell, do all of the advertising and contacting, and I love it! I never thought I would be able to do it. I was a meth addict for 16 years. I have been clean for 6 years (7 on September 25) and there was a time that I couldn't remember how many $1 bills to take back when I put a $5 in the collection plate at meetings. It was scary! Turns out I still have a brain cell or two left. Since I got clean I went to school and got my AA degree and finished a medical records office assistant course. I got a couple of certificates, one in coding and one in transcription, and I chose transcription as a career. That's my "day job", even though I work swing shift. The website is growing slowly, which is how I want it right now. Although it is my passion, it is definitely not my main source of income.

Yet. Someday I will take some business classes, probably set up another site or two, and hopefully grow a good retirement! That is the plan, anyway.

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