Restarting my Weight Loss journey

[MrLang]

This is just an awesome response! I read this and it was like a reality check! I will be taking this advice and following it very closely. Thank you!

This makes me very, very happy

Time to continue preaching:

The other thing I wanted to comment after reading through the last few posts again is that I find it inherently dangerous to slap labels on everything. Human beings are variable. They are adaptable. We like to slap labels on people who vary and adapt themselves into a minority perspective. Eff that. Get over the 'I have a problem that's out of my hands' mode. It's entirely in your hands. The human brain is much more powerful than people give it credit for. I think 'disorder' and 'addiction' are really volatile, dangerous, self-loathing words. More importantly, they strip you of power that you have.

I used to be a fairly serious heroin addict. You won't see me saying that in any other threads and I'll probably regret documenting that here at some point. I need to share it because I don't want to hear any 'you've never had a REAL problem' crap. 'It's too hard' reads 'you don't really want it then' to me. You think it's hard not to stop at McDonald's on the way home? Try shooting up. I promise they're not even on the same level of desire or attraction. But when you're not a drug addict, the idea of shooting up is not very exciting. See? Perspective.

People sit around at AA and feel sorry for themselves. One day at a time, etc. 'We're always alcoholics and addicts, we're just in recovery forever.' That's a load of crap. You WANT to get clean off drugs? That must mean you want to be a sober person. That must mean you ARE a sober person. Maybe you should stop using drugs... it's very uncharacteristic of a sober person. Moreover, as a sober person you need to ask yourself why you willingly sit in a room full of people who are still openly labeling themselves as addicts. I'd keep away from the therapy if I were you.

It works.