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I have been Going thru Some Major Hurdles Here of Late, and tho I'm still Making My Meetings, and Doing My Work, there are still Times of Great SINKING & back sliding! Thank Goodness for HP, HOPE, FAITH, & The Love of this Program...
I Do ask if you have a Second this Thurs. that you Whisper a Prayer for My Aunt.. She Goes for Cancer Surgery and I'm Praying they can get it all out! She is in her Early 70's and she has been waiting 5 months for this to be done! So we are ALL a Little on Edge! Any Prayers would be most Grateful!
I have been Doing my Best to Study up on Addiction/Habits of Addictions (There are SOOO Many things I would have Never Guessed that a Person could be Addicted to)... "Thank you John For Sharing the Video on the Home thread of the Brain when Addicted" it helps me put things in Prospective, and better Understand ME the Addict/Recovering Addict!
This Friday Will be 3.5yrs SOBER... Woo Hoo... I have Found that the More i Learn the Better I Do & Feel... I Can't Remember it all i'm not that Good, but finding & Understand Addiction FOR ME is Very Important! I'm so Thankful for what All of You have Taught me with your struggles as well as My own! after all... AL-ANON Got me Sober
Just wanted to share a Semi Funny Joke between Me & HP Here Lately! I struggle with Weight like Many People, and I have been Asking HP to Help me/ 12 step me on how to do better, I"m about 40lbs over weight (According to the Doc's Chart), and My Biggest Problem is I LOVE GOOD Homemade FOOD & Eating at NICE Restaurants! In My Childhood Home, My Mom put on the Table what We could afford that week, and Many times it wasn't Much of Nothing... but We had what we needed! So I was Never "Taught" to eat Healthy, and even now I stuggle because I was never Taught to Cook right either! So I'm "TRYING" to Teach Myself! Eeekkk.....
So I also have a Genetic Disease called "Peridontial Disease" (Sorry I Suck at Spelling)... BUT... It is a Disease within my Mouth & Effects My Teeth/Gums/Blood stream etc... but if not treated can also cause Heart Disease! (Which runs Rampid in my Family) SO... I have been Treating it for some time now, and tho My Teeth & Gums have improved I Still have not found a way to stop the Bone Loss in my Teeth to keep them from getting Loose tho ... So I had to go have a Front Tooth removed, and a Partial Plate Inserted, (For Me I have to Keep it forever) Well Needless to say! Its Annoying, Its to Me Icky, and I have YET to Learn How to Eat with it because I just am So Freaked out about things getting Caught in it!
So Upon Speaking/Praying to HP MONTHS... I'm thinking this is His Sollution ... to My Eating Problem! Because NOW..(Let me Add I'm VERY OCD About a Clean Mouth). I Ask myself, "is that Piece of Chocolate REALLY Worth, taking this thing Out, Cleaning it! putting it back in!" OR, would it be better to just Forget the Chocolate! lol (I Know I'm Crazy) BUT... I have to say! Since i have Got it, I'm Down 5lbs! lol Because I WILL Not Take it out in Public, which means when I go to a Great Resturant I will be having Soup, Not Steak...lol... Or Something that can disolve quickly Not somthing that must be chewed! So the Way I See it... HP is Just doing what HP does... Some May Find this Disturbing, but Accually its Not! Its Just More Proof that LIFE gives us what we need! Our Attitude is what Gets us to the NEXT Step! Do I think this is the ONLY Solution to my weight issue, NO... But I'm Feeling better, which means I will be outdoors Doing More, I'm Feeling Well enough to Exercise more, and I'm Making Better "More Healthy" Choices in my Food, because I'm Being Forced to "Look" at What a Can, and What I can't Have...
I have been "Stressing" of having to remove this Tooth for 2months, it finally got so Loose the Option was No Longer Mine! So I Did what I had to do! I'm still Very on Edge about it, However... I'm a Survivor and when I Put my Mind Right, I Thrive... and I Can Say & Do these things Solely by the Grace of My HP, & the Love & Support this Program has Brought & Continues to bring to my Life.... :D
Now if only I Had to Chew Ice Cream...
Welp, Thats My Chuckle of the week, and I Hope you are all Smiling As Well...
((((Sister)))) welcome back home...okay now we can throw out the left overs or eat them ourselves (LOL)!! Congradulaltions on the recovery time and easy thing here to ask for prayers cause prayers is part of what your MIP family does. Go Aunty!! Let go and Let God and the doctors do their thing. HP will be in the room...because HP will have a mask on you won't be able to tell which one HP will be and then thats normal for HP. Weight control??!! that also is a heavy subject for me and I'm okay with where I am at. I don't have a poster child on my bedroom door to compare to and anyways I was taught that it is what is inside me that counts not what hangs on my insides. Thanks for popping it. ((((hugs))))
She Goes for Cancer Surgery and I'm Praying they can get it all out! She is in her Early 70's and she has been waiting 5 months for this to be done! So we are ALL a Little on Edge! Any Prayers would be most Grateful! 
, but finding & Understand Addiction FOR ME is Very Important! I'm so Thankful for what All of You have Taught me with your struggles as well as My own! after all... AL-ANON Got me Sober 
! I struggle with Weight like Many People, and I have been Asking HP to Help me/ 12 step me on how to do better, I"m about 40lbs over weight (According to the Doc's Chart), and My Biggest Problem is I LOVE GOOD Homemade FOOD & Eating at NICE Restaurants! In My Childhood Home, My Mom put on the Table what We could afford that week, and Many times it wasn't Much of Nothing... but We had what we needed! So I was Never "Taught" to eat Healthy, and even now I stuggle because I was never Taught to Cook right either! So I'm "TRYING" to Teach Myself! Eeekkk..... 
... So I had to go have a Front Tooth removed, and a Partial Plate Inserted, (For Me I have to Keep it forever) 
Well Needless to say! Its Annoying, Its to Me Icky, and I have YET to Learn How to Eat with it because I just am So Freaked out about things getting Caught in it!
Because NOW..(Let me Add I'm VERY OCD About a Clean Mouth). I Ask myself, "is that Piece of Chocolate REALLY Worth, taking this thing Out, Cleaning it! putting it back in!" OR, would it be better to just Forget the Chocolate! lol (I Know I'm Crazy) BUT... I have to say! Since i have Got it, I'm Down 5lbs! 