Epiphany 2,0
I can talk the talk....but I'm having issues with the walk!
In my last decree I pronounced that I was going to walk the straight and narrow. Well, that didn't really work out. I look at it as if I am at the top of a muddy slope. I know where the path is, but I can't get my feet to the firmer ground due to all the mud I am in at the moment.
One of my biggest challenges is support. Don't get me wrong, I have a loving supportive husband that just wants to see me happy and healthy. The problem is that he is naturally rail thin (as is my 7 month old son)! He doesn't understand how I can be physically addicted to sugar and how I can't find the willpower to avoid the sweets that are in the house. I have tried to explain the book to him (he refused to read it saying he's too busy) but he thinks its another gimmick and that you don't need to eat all organic whole foods, just watch what you eat. He doesn't want to eat the meals I cook for myself and continues to buy high-fructose corn syrup laden foods. How do you get past that?
I have an incredible weakness for chocolate...as we speak I am having a square of chocolate. My addiction runs so deep that not having it in the house isn't enough. I will actually have cravings so bad that I will go out in the cold to the store to buy something chocolate (usually chocolate ice cream, a double whammy). What is wrong with me that I need it that badly? Will it get better or will I always have such insatible cravings?
Like AA....Hello my name is ______, and I am a chocoholic. There I admitted it, but what do I do now? Do I count the number of hours, days, months I have been "clean"? Will this be a life-long battle? Can I ever have a candy bar again?
Mercy, do I ever need help!!!!!


addiction
Submitted on Wed, Dec. 6th at 11:28 am by pkei
Not yet begun UltraMetabolism
Not yet begun the UltraSimple Diet
Chemgirl,
We sound so similar, I wish my cravings were limited to chocolate. I love anything sweet...ANYTHING!!!!
I have learned to treat it like an addiction. If I get a taste of something sweet, I want to eat it until I'm sick, I'm not happy unless I can eat too much of it. So, I have to stay 100% away from it, like an alcoholic to alcohol. I've recently figured this out and it works much better for me.
We need sponsors to call when we get the sugar cravings!
Sugar addition
Submitted on Wed, Dec. 6th at 1:17 pm by lacerra@sbcglobal.net
Not yet begun UltraMetabolism
Not yet begun the UltraSimple Diet
Dear Chemgirl,
I can certainly relate to your chocolate addition/suar addition challenges. Having suffered with systemic candidiasis (which requires a 3-6 month diet of NO sugar or high-glycemic vegetables to treat), and having a propensity to get return bouts of if I give in to my cravings, the temptations of having chocolate and other sweets and goodies about is really dangerous. My feeling is that you need to have a very serious talk with your family and enlist their support in keep the foods that are unhealthy for you out of your sight and reach, just as they would keep alcohol away from you if you had a drinking problem. Promise that you will work on developing your 'will power' (whatever that is!), if they will help you get started by keeping the kitchen area 'clean' of your 'drugs' for the time being.
I'll be 'shining white light on you', as they say in my part of the country :)
lacerra@sbcglobal.net