re - the food addiction is a whole nother story - trust me, I identify 
with THAT.  In fact lately I seem to have given up on it and I'm just 
eating like the never-ending binge.  And I LOOK like it too.
To me, this is the hardest because I can stop drinking and/or drugging 
entirely.  I could even stop romantic relationships and other close 
ties for a couple of years in dealing with codependency to find out who
I am.  But I can't stop eating entirely for anything other than a very 
short period of time.
Lately I'm worried as I could easily see myself ending up bulimic - 
over-reacting to the over-indulgence, going from one extreme to 
another, etc.
But I am trying to just let my Higher Power, whom I choose to call 
Whatever, in order not to offend anyone (GRIN) , teach me whatever it 
is I am going to learn from all of this.
But I am not enjoying it.  As I said to Brother Thom about my situation
where I am stuck in the house after this spate of one snowstorm 
following another - due to my disabilities, legal (not total) blindness
and severe athritis make mobility difficult at best and I am not 
allowed to drive - I don't have to LIKE it, I just have to accept it.
Right now I guess that goes for me too - I don't have to like that I am
a blimp and that I can't stop eating when certain foods are in my 
environment, I just have to accept myself where I am.
Maybe that is some kind of beginning.
--- TriToss (tm) Professional 1.0 - (Unregistered)
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