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Many of you know my battle with numerous addictions in my life - especially if you've been in the Addiction or Depression Forums. But I'll spare you the long boring story and just leave it as I've been a heavy and I mean heavy three pack a day smoker for years, longer than many of you reading this have been alive!
Well, as usual I digress!
A few nights ago I had a major computer crash, long story short, my last resort was to do a complete system restore which basically means I wiped my hard drive clean, re installed everything and of course because I'm one of 'those people" who never back anything up..I lost a lot work...a lot. Over 100 eBay auctions, photographs, and about 80% of a project I was working on since October 2004
In the long run? small potatoes....you can replace everything but those you love
But, and here's my point - as I was working away and smoking away, one after the other until those first rays of light peeked through the window I had the computer up and running and it was time to take the pooch out for a walk or rather at 140 pounds he takes me.
Now even though I'm walking 2 miles a day with WATP...I still needed to sit on a bench and rest and of course smoke.
We headed back home and at 730 AM on Friday, March 20th I threw every ashtray, every cigarette in the garbage, I'll never smoke again - ever.
Is the withdrawal awful? Yeah pretty much but I've been through worse and it occurred to me how much our very existence and the quality of our lives depends entirely on our choices.
Do we reach for that soda or that bottle of water? Do we sneak that cookie or fight through that craving any way we can because we know...we know what the cookie will do to us, emotionally and physically. Sometimes we punish ourselves and sabotage ourselves for reasons I don't claim to understand.
But I do understand this, every moment of every day we're all faced with choices and often we have to make them under distress and conflict. We can keep our mouths shut and not demand Atkins friendly foods - or we can simply choose to stay the course. Is there a stigma with Atkins? for the misinformed for the ignorant and for those who resent your success there is. You can choose to cater to them or fight for our own way of life.
If you're on Induction, Ill keep beating the same drum I've been pounding since I joined this forum - do it by the book, give it a fair chance and if your hurting, if your suffering remember it's temporary - you'll emerge stronger and wiser from the experience of sticking to your low carb no frankenfood guns.
But the choice is yours, and you may find yourself having to make them 1,000 times a day. But the more you opt for the one you know is better for you the closer you get to your goals...and those tiny steps? They become huge leaps of faith before you even realize it.
So don't give in, don't back down ..Ride this wave as long as you live and if you fall? Just get back up!
Failure isn't defined in slipping up - it's defined in staying down.
Anyway, sorry for the long post...but when are mine ever short?
Peterha
ha Many of you know my battle with numerous addictions in my life - especially if you've been in the Addiction or Depression Forums. But I'll spare you the long boring story and just leave it as I've been a heavy and I mean heavy three pack a day smoker for years, longer than many of you reading this have been alive!
Well, as usual I digress!
A few nights ago I had a major computer crash, long story short, my last resort was to do a complete system restore which basically means I wiped my hard drive clean, re installed everything and of course because I'm one of 'those people" who never back anything up..I lost a lot work...a lot. Over 100 eBay auctions, photographs, and about 80% of a project I was working on since October 2004
In the long run? small potatoes....you can replace everything but those you love
But, and here's my point - as I was working away and smoking away, one after the other until those first rays of light peeked through the window I had the computer up and running and it was time to take the pooch out for a walk or rather at 140 pounds he takes me.
Now even though I'm walking 2 miles a day with WATP...I still needed to sit on a bench and rest and of course smoke.
We headed back home and at 730 AM on Friday, March 20th I threw every ashtray, every cigarette in the garbage, I'll never smoke again - ever.
Is the withdrawal awful? Yeah pretty much but I've been through worse and it occurred to me how much our very existence and the quality of our lives depends entirely on our choices.
Do we reach for that soda or that bottle of water? Do we sneak that cookie or fight through that craving any way we can because we know...we know what the cookie will do to us, emotionally and physically. Sometimes we punish ourselves and sabotage ourselves for reasons I don't claim to understand.
But I do understand this, every moment of every day we're all faced with choices and often we have to make them under distress and conflict. We can keep our mouths shut and not demand Atkins friendly foods - or we can simply choose to stay the course. Is there a stigma with Atkins? for the misinformed for the ignorant and for those who resent your success there is. You can choose to cater to them or fight for our own way of life.
If you're on Induction, Ill keep beating the same drum I've been pounding since I joined this forum - do it by the book, give it a fair chance and if your hurting, if your suffering remember it's temporary - you'll emerge stronger and wiser from the experience of sticking to your low carb no frankenfood guns.
But the choice is yours, and you may find yourself having to make them 1,000 times a day. But the more you opt for the one you know is better for you the closer you get to your goals...and those tiny steps? They become huge leaps of faith before you even realize it.
So don't give in, don't back down ..Ride this wave as long as you live and if you fall? Just get back up!
Failure isn't defined in slipping up - it's defined in staying down.
Anyway, sorry for the long post...but when are mine ever short?
Peter
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I'm back on the wagon 01/22/07. 
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