lynnie

Vita, great for you, one day at a time!!!

Vitality

Hahha, Kiffie, I think chocolate is a food group. Love sweets. And coffee.
And no I didn't take it that you meant it was easy for her to stop… just the opposite.

I am gonna be watching my mailbox tomorrow… I have a few swaps still coming my way this month… maybe something will surprise me tomorrow! I'm excited

kiffie2413

Vita,
I didn't mean it like it came out on my blurb about Mom's quitting smoking, either...Suffice it to say you and I agree that nicotine can be seriously addicting.
I don't drink coffee, but don't come between me and my Coca-Cola, regular not diet or zero...
As far as chocolate, I'll eat it, but its not my fave.
However, if anyone would like to send an assortment of cobblers, pies, cakes, homemade breads and peach, apricot, pear preserves..I'll be happy to receive and partake of them. My fave desserts would be Key lime pie, best I've had was when vacationing on Padre island, yummy!!
I also love coconut cake with 7 minute frosting...Pineapple upside down cake?? Why certainly!

See?? If I had to stop eating sweets cold turkey, or even phase them out, well, I can't even imagine. And I'd like to say I'm teasing...but I'm not...

Regards,
Kif

klaws

Kiffie, how is DH doing? I hope he is starting to feel better.

sewbizgirl

Yes, refined sugar is definitely addictive.

sewred

Jaba and Elisabrat, I'm snowed in today and was yesterday, it is too nasty to get out will send out the package as soon as I can get out.

We got 7 inches of snow here and it hasn't been above 20 for the last 2 days . They are calling for temps to be 15 for both Wednesday and Thursday and lows in the negative digits for the night . My girls are our again today from school.

Patchesnposies

I was a carb-junkie my whole life. As a result I was an incredible baker and dessert maker. Bread, pies, cakes, cobblers, puddings, cookies, BAKLAVA, you name it, I made it and often. I also ate it......often. lol I was an addict, pure and simple. At the age of 50 I found myself on more meds than I can care to count. I was in Constant, Chronic pain. Rheumatoid Arthritis was destroying my joints. I was always on an emotional roller coaster. My pain was mainly physical, but also emotional. I felt like I was dying.

I decided, after a series of events that opened my eyes to the relationship between the gut and health, to stop living to eat and to begin eating to live.

Besides the delightful side effect of being 80lbs lighter I am healthier than I have been my whole life. I am on NO MEDS at all. Giving up processed foods and opting for a diet of real food has cleansed my body and my mind.

Cancer is rampant in my biological family. My mother died at the age of 64, my brother at 55. Mom of lung cancer, brother of a brain tumor. Dad has diabetes. I figured I was a time bomb waiting to go off. If the RA didn't kill me the meds I was on would. I have six children that I would like to see grow into adulthood. I also want them to remember a mom who was alive and vibrant, full of life. Not one who was housebound and in pain all of the time. Grouchy about her circumstances and unavailable emotionally for them.

As a family we have all given up processed foods of all kinds. We eat organic if possible, but with six kids that gets pricey. It is amazing when you see an 8 year old politely decline a treat and opt for something healthy, because he knows that if he eats it he will feel sick. The same way that cigarette smoke bothers former smoker's, after your body is cleaned out of sugar eating it will make you feel ill.

I am not saying that everyone should give up processed foods. That, of course, is an individual decision. One can live without cigarettes or alcohol....but you HAVE to eat. That makes food related issues so hard. Whether it is an eating disorder or addiction, food issues are complex and everyone's path to figuring them out is very personal.

I just wanted to say that the battle to overcoming an addiction is the same no matter what it is to and this is my story. I hear the same lies when my body wants the carbs as a smoker hears he is jones'n for a cigarette.

Elisabrat

wow congrats to all who have made the change to healthy. For each of us its a different road, a different challenge but I understand. I was addicted seriously to caffeine. Drank 3 pots of espresso each and everymorning. I loved it so much and needed it. Never really thought you could get addicted to coffee but well we went to Mexico for a holiday rented a house on a private lagoon. no coffee with us. For three solid days I had a migrane. my head was pounding, light hurt.. I swore never ever again. I went to regular coffee a couple years later one cup a day but quit that when the kidneys quit. I drink decafe tea about 3 times a week. that has caffeine in it too but to a lesser degree. amazing how often we do what we know is wrong with our bodies and justify it isn't it? everyone has more trouble with something than others. I could give up sweets like two years ago. I eat them. about once or twice a year. to be polite but overall rather not. I love carmels and licorice but rarely get those. No pancakes for me, or waffles. or sweet cakes or cookies. or pies. I used to adore candy as a kid. I hid under the kitchen counter and ate a jar of jam by myself. the sugar from the sugar jar. yup.. loved it big time. maybe I just ate so much I don't need it? no idea!

I got another email from the person who wrote to me about the name sharing. She felt I didn't deal with it so she took care of things herself. sigh. what to do? no idea. Please I also got someone else writing to me their name was shared in full form DO NOT POST FIRST AND LAST NAMES HERE on the board. If you do this I don't have to write this letter to you and get emails I prefer not to receive. I do take care of things as best I can. I am not perfect. This time I did PHEW should cover me for one or two small errors in the future. Its ok to post a board members board name if that is their name they obviously don't care. if they do they probably wouldn't have used it. or perhaps they have no on looking for them no idea. I am stating right here you can go ahead and post my full name. someone wants me they will find me I often sign things just Linda McD. your ok to write that also. there full disclosure. go for it you wont hurt my feelings. slightly even. grin.

sewbizgirl

Sorry you have been hassled, Linda. I honestly can't remember seeing any full names, and I've read every page of this thread from the beginning. Why the paranoia when there are so many people in the world with exactly the same names? Try typing your name in at Facebook and you will see some! It's not like we posted your private email and social security number. I just don't get the worry over names...

sewbizgirl

Patchesnposies, it made me so happy to read your story... I also had a 'waking up' at age 50, making changes I needed to have a better life. Now I am a fitness instructor and try my best to help others get to where they want to be.

There is nothing so valuable as our health/life!