Our Journey to Health: June 2009

Welcome

This is a blog that was motivated by mom's emergency visit to the hospital. I, like many of you, want to be a healthier individual. I don't like it when the people I love are threatened by their poor health and I like it even less when that threat could be fatal. I want to be a healthier individual that can also help others by motivating and informing them while undergoing and experiencing my own personal journey towards good health.

So please, feel free to blog about your successes, your failures, your healthy recipes, your personal thoughts, motivational thoughts and feelings, things that exercise our minds, physical exercises or exercise routines that work well, things that exercise or strengthens our spirits, or whatever fits into the category of good health.

Thursday, June 4, 2009

Addiction

How do you help an addict?

For most of my life I have been very unhealthy and unhappy. I try to take a step to a healthier life and then just crash. I must admit I have a major addiction! This addiction is food. Some would say food is a very easy addiction to conquer, but this is not true. Food is as much as an addiction as meth is to an drug addict. It gives me a great high and then a great low. At a very young age I let food become my everything. Food was my comfort and my best friend. I use food whenever I am happy and want to celebrate or food is my comfort when I am sad and I need comfort to ease my pain. I try to tell myself that food is killing me a little every day, but when I need that high I just can't seem to say NO.

Last week I started my normal "HEY, I am going to be healthy and start a new healthy life" and I did a great job for one week working out one hour every day and watching how much I ate and what I would eat. I lost 7 LBS and then you got it I needed that HIGH and I have not been able to stop wanting that high since.