Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Clean and Sober in 2013!
Clean and Sober in 2013.
It is my desire to become Clean and Sober in 2013. I was gifted a box of chocolates and suddenly I was faced with the decision, "Am I going to eat this?" Now I know all the facts and stats about Chocolate, I know that for eating one piece I would have to walk nearly 3 miles to burn it off. I know that it is high in fat. I no that it is addictive and that eating one piece will lead to me eating ten. I know that it will get me high for a few minutes and then return me to a lower state of energy.
I thought about how I do not drink alcohol. Whenever some one offers me a drink at a restaurant, I usually say, "No thank you I do not drink!" When someone gives me a bottle of wine as a gift I pass it along to someone else who drinks or throw it away. I began to see that I must start thinking about chocolate the same way I think about wine. I don't want to be controlled or under the influence of chocolate. I don't want to become a chocolate zombie.
I also do not do drugs, at-least illegal narcotics. I began to see that I must see the offer to share some chocolate with some one is the same as me being offered to do a line of coke with someone.
Chocolate has harmed me. I am obese, I get depressed, have low energy and lower self-esteem and higher risk for heart disease, diabetes and breast cancer as a result of eating too much chocolate. The truth is that it is very difficult to limit how much chocolate I consume. I would not be satisfied with one bar of chocolate per day, certainly not one piece per day. Asking me to only eat one piece of chocolate per day is like asking an alcoholic to only have one drink at a bar. It's not going to happen captain!
The way I see it the only way out of being addicted to food drugs or food narcotics is to get clean and sober. I have tried portion control and that did not work for me! I have meal planned, counted calories, tried three meals a day, tried six, but I have not been serious about a commitment to be clean and sober from food narcotics. Sure I have made commitments to my health, to eating right and exercise without directly addressing my addiction to food drugs.
Whether you count calories or not, there is something about the chemistry of chocolate compared to that of an apple. It is easier to limit the intake of apples than it is to reduce the intake of sweets.
I define food narcotics as all food substances that are both harmful and highly addictive, on my list that would include every sweet known to man, snack foods or junk food such as chips or crackers, fried foods and cheese products.
It is my desire to be free of food narcotics in 2013 and for the rest of my life!
I do not wish to a food addict any longer!
Carolyn Louise Maynard (CLM)
12/19/12
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