what's your addiction?…

i’m just saying…

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Losing weight is the second hardest struggle of my life. *Pause… let me get more comfortable* Is it realistic to expect a crack head to be in a room full of crack and not use? What about an alcoholic?

Do you take them to an open bar (if you care about them) and expect them not to drink?  No, you don’t- especially the crackhead! (Maybe I should alter the term crackhead, not wanting to offend anyone- although if you use crack,??? Ummm go figure)

Why then, do people undermine or make light of the struggle of overeaters? This is the only addiction that I can think of that is necessary to live. You don’t have to drink or use recreational drugs, but I do however have to eat.

I am placed in front of my addiction multiple times a day and asked to show restraint and make healthy decisions, when drug users and drunks are often strapped to beds and put into isolation to separate them from their demon of choice.

I say choice, because I didn’t choose to eat. It was something that was decided for me. From the moment I was conceived the umbilical cord fed me. Then breast and bottles, to Gerbers and of course table food followed.

Fix a plate they say at Piccadilly (or any restaurant for that matter), and get a salad not so much fried foods. But do you tell a crackhead drug user to go into the crackhouse drug house, and only use a little bit of crack drugs today.

Am I making sense? Well it makes plenty of sense to me, because it’s my struggle. Just like each entertainer or athlete’s charity or foundation only exists because someone in their family or circle has been affected with said condition (as my foundation would be Cancer based).

I guess I am feeling some kind of way today because I have been talking about losing weight all year, and here it is a month before my birthday and I have gained about 10 lbs.

But it is a condition, maybe not a disease but definitely a growing problem. Fat foods are cheap and healthy ones are expensive. Check the incomes in a ten mile radius of any Whole Foods, or a Doc Greens. I’m just saying….