entered 12 step program. Quit smoking. Started eating. Here I am

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LouieMM
LouieMM Posts: 3 Member
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So, what to say?
After years and years of partying way too hard I did rather a lot of damage to ye' olde body. Drank, drugged, smoked, ruined life. BUT! There was hope! I entered into a 12 step and sorted my life out. So clean and sober and recently stopped smoking (VAPE, yes I know it's not like a proper quit quit but better than my 40 cigarettes a day so I'm happy)
Anyways, anyone that knows how an addictive brain goes will now that you put one down and you pick one up. Mine was food. LOTS of food. As I'm not one to rush home and binge on kale I ate crabs, sugar, chocolate, anything I could unwrap and throw down my throat.
Sooooo this morning I had a bit of a strop with myself and thought this has GOT to stop. I'm 35 and living what feels like 50 percent health. A few years ago I didn't care but now I love my husband (yup, I'm gay *gasp*) enjoy my job, love my house and my dogs and my family and I want to be able to squeeze as much as I can out of my life. I'll be going back to the gym slowly and trying to track what I eat so I don't need scaffolding to put on my socks in the morning!
So I'm hoping to change, inspire, get inspiration and watch other people change and kind of tap into their motivation.

Anyhoop, comment, add me, whatever. Just keep doing whatever's working for you!

Peace,
Louie

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  • RunawayCurves
    RunawayCurves Posts: 688 Member
    edited November 2017
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    If you find 12 step programs agreeable to you then you may find food addicts in recovery anonymouse helpful, a lot of people in that group come from having already being in other 12 step fellowships for drugs and alcohol.

    food addicts in recovery anonymous
    https://www.foodaddicts.org/

    there is also food addicts anonymouse
    https://www.foodaddictsanonymous.org/

    and overeaters anonymous
    https://oa.org/find-a-meeting/

    Or
    http://lifering.org/
  • beany90a
    beany90a Posts: 31 Member
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    I would suggest you spend some of the next couple of weeks researching and testing what you enjoy eating that keeps you under your calorie goal. There is a very big food database here to help. As well as a recipe section on the forums. Good luck on your journey and I hope you get what your after
  • Feed_the_Bears
    Feed_the_Bears Posts: 275 Member
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    Hello :) My nickname is Bears, and I like to put stuff in my mouth to control my emotions lol.

    Fellow 12-stepper here. Primarily MA, but also AA, but let's face it, you put it in front of me and I put it in my body.

    When I shifted focus to recovery to save my life, I lost interest in diet/nutrition and dropped intensity of activity (and gained 100 lbs I still can't believe it). I believe that my fitness behavior was perhaps a bit of a negative obsession before too, an over-compensating and justifying behavior for my self-harming lifestyle. If was fueled by fear and self loathing, not by self care.

    After over two years in program, happier than ever, I want to put attention back to this aspect of self care. I am rethinking the emotional driver and impact of eating, activity, and binge triggers and how all of the powerful stuff I learned in program can help me take care of myself better and understand myself better.

    I thought to do that, the first thing would be to admit that I can't succeed on my own and reach out and say "hi" to people on the community pages. And I find 12 steppers to be my kind of people :). From past experience in the community pages, I find that there are a lot of people who are judgmental and provide unsolicited, unprofessional advice before support, something a 12 step table is safe from. (Yes there are a lot of amazing people I met there too.)

    So hi! Let's help each other achieve what we admit we want :) One day at a time.

    Bears

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