i feel like a beached whale….one of my biggest concerns about quitting smoking was gaining weight, and it’s like a nightmare come true….i’ve gained 7 lbs in 10 days, and i feel fat and gross….i knew it was a possibility, it’s always been one of my biggest objections to quitting, actually, not that i’m proud of that but it’s the truth…so i went back to WW today, and still managed to eat myself thru half of manhattan….and i don’t know why….i’m full and i keep eating….am i bored? antsy? lonely? what is it? it’s like a compulsion, like i know i should stop and i don’t…it doesn’t make me feel very good, so why do i do it? i feel ashamed of myself in class because everyone has noticed that i’m packing on the lbs…one girl even used me as an example of yo-yo dieting to my face….”i mean talk about yo-yo…Rose goes from thin to average every other month!!” and that made me feel like shit. i don’t wanna audition because i feel so fat and embarassed that i can’t get this under control….with weight gain it’s like everyone in the world can see that i’m a failure, and that makes me sad….i wish i could just naturally settle into a happy weight, but i think that will never happen for me…i even avoided my favorite dance teacher for the last month because i know how dissapointed in me he will be….a few months ago, when i was 15 lbs less, he told me how great i looked and how proud he was that i finally got my weight under control, and i was so happy about that, i felt so great about the way i looked, and now i feel like an ugly failure, and a joke…..why is it that i can quit cigarettes, but not get a handle on my eating? why do i insist on sabotaging myself all the damn time? it’s like if i get one thing really right, the other things in my life go to shit….and i know i am the one in control….so why do i feel so helpless and powerless here? right now i’m so ashamed of my body, i don’t even want to leave my house….and every minute that i stay here, i hate myself a little bit more…what do i do? how do i get a handle on this? i hate looking in the mirror and crying…….but most of all i hate feeling like at every turn i let myself and all of the people who believe in me down…..
{February 3, 2008}
Why is there no Chantix for eating?
You could never let me down Rose! You have to know that the eating will get back under control soon. I’m sure that it’s nothing more than your body trying to figure out how to replace the habit that you don’t have anymore. It will even out….don’t worry. Your body just needs a little time to adjust. I am SO PROUD of you!!!
You gotta find a new coping mechanism..mine is a big frothy skinny cappuccino..fills you up. You’re not a failure..better to be a little heavier (normal) than to smoke.