Comments on: Slip sliding away…

By: Next to Last Samurai

Next to Last Samurai — Sun, 07 May 2006 23:41:30 +0000

I love your bad habits/old jeans analogy. Brilliant!

By: Beth

Beth — Tue, 02 May 2006 18:43:06 +0000

Interesting point LME. I like the scene in that addiction movie with Sandra Bullock (28 Days?) where her heroin-addicted roommate is making due with gobs and gobs of candy. There’s something to all this!

By: little miss ess

little miss ess — Tue, 02 May 2006 17:15:33 +0000

I was reading a biography recently of F. Scott Fitzgerald, legendary writer and serious alcoholic. The biographer was just speculating, and based on what knowledge I don’t know, but he said that the reason Fitzgerald took to drink so quickly and thoroughly was because of what it physiologically did to his blood sugar. When Fitzgerald was off booze, or trying to cut back, he would drink Coca Cola. Sometimes as many as 12 bottles of Coke a day. And eat candy.

So, maybe the physiological aspect of your slip has something to do with the way your body reacted to that sugar in the alcohol. It wanted more, more, more. So the cookies and the white flour.

I used to be a big drinker myself. And I know that when I was hungover, I craved carbs to make myself feel better. I’d eat a bagel, or some pasta, and would feel better for a little while, but then that would wear off, and the crappy hangover feeling would seep back, and then I’d eat something else.

Lots of water. Take a walk outside if you can. And hang in there, Beth.

By: Beth

Beth — Tue, 02 May 2006 16:56:56 +0000

Thanks all for your kind comments! Maybe this will work out like it did for an old college buddy of mine who was a vegetarian. Every six months or so, he'd go with us to the Hilltop Steak House (north of Boston...an institution) and order a big steak. The pain he felt afterward was always enough to remind him why he chose to go veggie :). Anyways, I made it thru lunch, so we'll see how the rest of the day goes!

By: Debbi

Debbi — Tue, 02 May 2006 13:22:36 +0000

My opinion, not that you asked or anything, is that giving up Diet Coke was just too much of a sacrifice. Thus, the alcohol reward, which led to the food reward.

And what Marla said, too.

By: mary

mary — Tue, 02 May 2006 12:45:16 +0000

Beth, you’re such a muffin. (Oops, wrong choice of words.) The really important thing is that you are not depressed about your slip-up. As for Diet Coke, is there not a drink you like as much as DC but that doesn’t have the bad health effects?

As for overeating, I’m inclined to think that it’s at least 95% psychological—habit—just like which sleeve or shoe you put on first.

By: Marla

Marla — Tue, 02 May 2006 11:12:30 +0000

Bummer! All I can say is, set-backs happen to everyone and it’s not the end of the world or the end of the effort. From what I’ve read about people go through weaning themselves off diet soda, I have to assume there’s something addictive about it, and I’m not using that word lightly. Anytime you stop taking a substance like that, it’s going to have a big physical effect as well as a mental one. Maybe it will take a few tries to kick the habit, it certainly does for other things we know are addictive.

Here’s a bright spot: the longer you eat good food, the less appealing the crap food is. I find that I’ll *think* I want some frit0s or candy corn or whatever, but when I have some it’s a lot less delicious than I remembered and frequently the sugar and/or salt makes me physically ill the next day. So I’ve reached a point where I rarely even desire the crap, and that’s a great relief.

By: Blue Lue

Blue Lue — Tue, 02 May 2006 01:26:55 +0000

Ooh, it is a slippery slope indeed. I’m treading lightly myself these days, and am determined not to s-l-i-d-e. But those cookies — I love myself some maple anything, and those look divine (glad they’re far, far away ….)