Food, drugs, sex, gambling, alcohol, caffeine, plastic surgery, shopping, all of the above – we’ve been there.
Addiction is a chronic, relapsing condition of compulsive seeking, despite harmful consequences and long-lasting changes to one’s life or body. So if we know there are consequences or long-lasting consequences, why do we continue doing it? This is where my journey begins.
The pages that you are about to read are of my journey and start overs. My journey to figure out why I continue to eat my way through pain. Why I can’t let go of food. Why I used to use sex as a form of punishment to myself and why I find it revolting now. How my body is changing as I get older and how I still haven’t figured things out yet. The ‘whys’ and ‘what-ifs’ and the ‘should-haves’.
I welcome you to this confusing shit-show called “The Starving Fat Lady.