I made it through the weekend. I know I'm in the "Honeymoon" stage but it wasn't that bad. Got to a meeting today and had some quality time and coffee with a girl in a similar position as myself after. My skin is looking so much better, no more puffy moon-face. I'm hanging in there and dealing with some of the financial problems I've created. It feels good to be tackling things head-on regardless of how depressing. Strangely, the most confounding problem I'm experiencing right now is non-stop hunger. It's like I've just discovered food for the first time. How does one sate these cravings?!?! I'm currently "chipping" away at the nestle tollhouse morsels in my fridge every night, along with every other kind of junk food imaginable. I know this is a small price to pay for sobriety but I don't want to trade one habit for another!
I too have had the munchies. I was really concerned at first. I lost weight when I got sober, and since have gained a lot of it back. Now I am learning to be more conscious of how much junk food I eat. I have lost a few pounds since doing that. I think cravings come from our bodies needing some kind of vitamins or minerals we need. It certainly isn't excess fatty foods, sugar and salt. However, I did (and still do) crave these things.
I joked about it on this board about my weight and how many goodies I was consuming. At the end of the day, however, I didn't pick up a drink. I do know that physically I feel so much worse and after this many months of sobriety, and I thought I would feel so much better. So I am trying to work on not filling my body with as much junk foods and have cut back on coffee and I am going to try and quit smoking when I reach a year of sobriety.
Strangely, the most confounding problem I'm experiencing right now is non-stop hunger. It's like I've just discovered food for the first time. How does one sate these cravings?!?! I'm currently "chipping" away at the nestle tollhouse morsels in my fridge every night, along with every other kind of junk food imaginable. I know this is a small price to pay for sobriety but I don't want to trade one habit for another!
i just wanted to add that I went through a period in early sobriety just as you described ... for me, my drinking history ended with a 'white, cotton like' mouth ... the first week or two, everything tasted like cardboard ... ... ... but when my dead 'taste buds' started to repair themselves, wow oh wow, the food tasted so good I had a hard time holding myself back ... and it was exactly like you said, it was like tasting food for the first time ...
After a few months of gaining needed weight, I tapered off ... it pasted ... well, let's just say I started making better decisions ... where I used to drink breakfast, lunch, and dinner, I ate real food ... it's natural for the body to want to store nutrients after such a starving behavior ... don't worry too much about it just yet, just work the program as a top priority right now ... since I was coming from a place of 'no self control' to a place of love, patience, and tolerance, It took a little while to adjust to the new 'life style' ... ... ...
I'm 5'8" and I had jumped to 218 lbs my first year of sobriety ... but the following years, I got much more active, physically ... seems without all the booze, I had energy now ... in time, I lost weight and am down to 186 ... still need to get it down some more, but hell, as long as I don't drink, I ain't worried about it, LOL ...
Love ya and God Bless,
Pappy
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Thanks all, and to 2granddaughters I am going six days a week. Also thanks Pappy, glad to know others can relate! I was slim when I quit so maybe I needed some of this excess to make up for poor nutrition but it is startling. I bought tons of fruit but the sweets keep calling me. LOTS of caffeine too. However, I'm still just thankful to be in the place I am today and not a month ago.
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Yeah, I need to rethink Nutty Buddy's handle and start calling him 'Flaming A**' or somp'n ... LOL ... talk about cause'n yourself 'pain' ...
Ya know, this reminds me of getting sober ... I went for years without knowing what a 'normal' poop was like ... what a shock when I got sober ... forgot it was supposed to be firm or solid, LOL ... it really beats the perpetual diarrhea that I had come to know ... eeeew, enough of that ... Sorry ... it was just a 'flashback' ...
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