Comments on: Addiction Recovery: Weight Gain http://www.whatwinnersdo.com/weight-gain-in-addiction-recovery/ Stories, Struggles And Success of A Recovering Addict Trying to Do What Winners Do Wed, 28 Jul 2010 09:54:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Cathy http://www.whatwinnersdo.com/weight-gain-in-addiction-recovery/comment-page-1/#comment-12624 Cathy Sun, 09 May 2010 23:57:31 +0000 http://www.whatwinnersdo.com/weight-gain-in-addiction-recovery/#comment-12624 I too recently ended my love affair with opiates and benzos and now have started a love affair with food. Unfortunately I hate the way my body is beginning to look. Thankfully I went to the doctor and saw that I had gained 20 pounds in three months so now it's time to slow down! I think it's a combination of our bodies being in starvation mode for so long and our addictive personalities..if one slice of pizza is good..four is better! And that's just breakfast! So..the beginning of another journey. Sigh. Good luck..if we could kick our addiction to other substances (for today) we can do the same with overeating. Tomorrow...when these oreos are gone!! I too recently ended my love affair with opiates and benzos and now have started a love affair with food. Unfortunately I hate the way my body is beginning to look. Thankfully I went to the doctor and saw that I had gained 20 pounds in three months so now it’s time to slow down! I think it’s a combination of our bodies being in starvation mode for so long and our addictive personalities..if one slice of pizza is good..four is better! And that’s just breakfast! So..the beginning of another journey. Sigh. Good luck..if we could kick our addiction to other substances (for today) we can do the same with overeating. Tomorrow…when these oreos are gone!!

]]> By: Erin http://www.whatwinnersdo.com/weight-gain-in-addiction-recovery/comment-page-1/#comment-199 Erin Mon, 23 Jul 2007 15:23:33 +0000 http://www.whatwinnersdo.com/weight-gain-in-addiction-recovery/#comment-199 Thanks a lot for the encouragement. You have a lot of great advice there. I am a mother of one child and similar fears to the ones that you wrote definitely stay on my mind. Feel free to leave some more of your wisdom on any of the other articles too. Thanks Thanks a lot for the encouragement. You have a lot of great advice there. I am a mother of one child and similar fears to the ones that you wrote definitely stay on my mind.

Feel free to leave some more of your wisdom on any of the other articles too. Thanks

]]> By: Shaela http://www.whatwinnersdo.com/weight-gain-in-addiction-recovery/comment-page-1/#comment-197 Shaela Mon, 23 Jul 2007 11:58:10 +0000 http://www.whatwinnersdo.com/weight-gain-in-addiction-recovery/#comment-197 Hey, I just wanted to give you a little congrats. You and I sound alot alike. I am 36yrs old an dhad an addiction to opiates. You are doing the right thing. I actually think by going to the gym not only are you helping yourself healthwise, but it is also a good healthy way to change your behavior. I don't know about you, but I spent ALOT of time chasing pills (my addiction) and doing something to occupy our time instead of stuffing snickers bars in our mouths is a must. We also have that craving for whatever our bodies needed that we didn't feel or take time to care about before. The antidepressant thing I also went through. I was on Celexa for probably 6+ years, others before that, and I think when you have an addiction to something in the first place and you are scared to leave it behind even something nonnarcotic has the same effect in our brain. We have that addictive personality. One day I finally decided that 6 years was too long and I just quit taking them. I did have a little bit of withdrawl (dizziness and nausea) so I recomend talking with your Dr. if you have been on them for a while and maybe lowering your dose before stopping all together so you don't have that. But I know people don't know what a battle fighting addiction is and I just wanted to say Congratulations and Keep up the good work, make yourself proud. Life is too short to live through it in a haze. One thing that helps me is I am a single mom with 3 kids ages 19,14, and 12, and we know addiction leads to death and/or jail and then what would they do without me? What would I do with out them? I could not imagine not being there their entire life and seeing my grandchildren. If you have kids imagine these things and how they would feel if they found you after an overdose. Or if you got in a wreck with them in the car and killed them and you survived, I could never live with myself. I know these are awful things and we never think they will happen to us, but the fact of the matter is they do happen to people and who's to say it won't be us? Anyways that's what keeps me on the right track alot of time if I am having any thoughts of using. Best of Luck to You!! Stay at the gym and you will be one hot mama or pappa next summer!! Hey, I just wanted to give you a little congrats. You and I sound alot alike. I am 36yrs old an dhad an addiction to opiates. You are doing the right thing. I actually think by going to the gym not only are you helping yourself healthwise, but it is also a good healthy way to change your behavior. I don’t know about you, but I spent ALOT of time chasing pills (my addiction) and doing something to occupy our time instead of stuffing snickers bars in our mouths is a must. We also have that craving for whatever our bodies needed that we didn’t feel or take time to care about before. The antidepressant thing I also went through. I was on Celexa for probably 6+ years, others before that, and I think when you have an addiction to something in the first place and you are scared to leave it behind even something nonnarcotic has the same effect in our brain. We have that addictive personality. One day I finally decided that 6 years was too long and I just quit taking them. I did have a little bit of withdrawl (dizziness and nausea) so I recomend talking with your Dr. if you have been on them for a while and maybe lowering your dose before stopping all together so you don’t have that. But I know people don’t know what a battle fighting addiction is and I just wanted to say Congratulations and Keep up the good work, make yourself proud. Life is too short to live through it in a haze. One thing that helps me is I am a single mom with 3 kids ages 19,14, and 12, and we know addiction leads to death and/or jail and then what would they do without me? What would I do with out them? I could not imagine not being there their entire life and seeing my grandchildren. If you have kids imagine these things and how they would feel if they found you after an overdose. Or if you got in a wreck with them in the car and killed them and you survived, I could never live with myself. I know these are awful things and we never think they will happen to us, but the fact of the matter is they do happen to people and who’s to say it won’t be us? Anyways that’s what keeps me on the right track alot of time if I am having any thoughts of using. Best of Luck to You!! Stay at the gym and you will be one hot mama or pappa next summer!!

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