Yes, you read that right, I am fat. I can and do admit it. What is harder to admit are the reasons why I am fat. When I was a teenager, I was pudgy but because I was in army cadets (got 2444 RCACC) so I was active and pudgy didn’t get out of hand. When I was 18 I quit army cadets and that I think is where all of my problems started.
I guess I thought I could eat all I wanted and it would not get out of hand, but it did. I am now more than twice the size I was when I was 18 and hate looking in the mirror. I shove the hatred down in my soul with salty food. I am a salty food person. I don’t mind a chocolate bar every now and then, or ice cream but give me a large bag of potato chips and we will be friends forever. Cereal is another one of my addictions. If I bring even one box of cereal in the house with a carton of milk, I can guarantee the box of cereal will be gone by bed time.
I can admit that I am addicted to simple carbohydrates. When I was first diagnosed as a type 1 insulin dependent diabetic at 23, I was told I could have carbs and again, my addiction took over. I ate pasta, bread, cereal, chips, popcorn, whatever I wanted but didn’t think or care about what they were doing to my body. Now I know and care about what they have done to my body.
I am fat. I am morbidly obese. But, there is one significant difference between and most of the other morbidly obese, I own my addictions, I own the fact that I have done this to myself and I am working on changing it. I have been working on it since September 2013 and within the next 4 months or so, I will be having weight loss surgery. WLS is NOT the cure, it is simply a tool in the process of changing my lifestyle to a much healthier and happier one.
From one carb addict to another, do something about it before you begin to wreck your body and soul.