Familiar words some of us can relate to- from Robin Williams RIP :(

[itsmekarenlee 129]

"During an interview with Good Morning America, Williams explained that falling back into alcohol abuse was "very gradual."

"It's the same voice thought that… you're standing at a precipice and you look down, there's a voice and it's a little quiet voice that goes, 'Jump,'" Williams told Diane Sawyer. "The same voice that goes, 'Just one.' … And the idea of just one for someone who has no tolerance for it, that's not the possibility."

When asked why he relapsed, Robin answered: "It's [addiction] — not caused by anything, it's just there… It waits. It lays in wait for the time when you think, 'It's fine now, I'm OK.' Then, the next thing you know, it's not OK."

Replace "alcohol" with "food". Addiction of any kind is so hard. We just have to go day by day and learn new habits and try not to think of the old.

Edited August 12, 2014 by itsmekarenlee

[Seagull00 19]

I'm finding that for me my food addiction is greatly increasing the struggle to "be good" and stay on diet, I have another week to go on the puréed diet and the food cravings are so intense. I'm mourning the foods I can't eat. I knew I had a problem but I never thought it was this bad.

I'm trying to replace food cravings with Water or with a different activity, it'll be easier to do that when I can exercise more. I'm still dealing with a lot of intense pain.

[pik 262]

You know I was talking to my fiance about this last night. I have never thought I had a food addiction, and he agreed with that.

He says he has it, and that is his problem. He is losing weight, though, and that is good. He got under 300 yesterday and I know that was very exciting for him.

I hear people talking about transfer addictions and I don't think that really concerns me.

As for Robin Williams, such a sad thing that he felt that was all he could do. Can you imagine how many people there are out there smiling on the outside and just dying on the inside? I can imagine there could be some like that here.

May he RIP.