Hi Kathy
After I got my food steady, a lot of my spikey behaviors faded away on their own. For instance, my compulsive shopping just stopped, one day I realized I hadn't been doing it. And I stopped getting into bad relationships, which caused a lot of drama in my life. I was able to break out of one that was very spikey. Then I dated someone for a long time, but without falling into all my old patterns that set me up for disaster. We dated for a long time but never really got serious, and it was a very healing time for me.

So a lot of it will clear up once food is steady. Then if you still have some issues, you can try therapy. I know therapy wouldn't have worked for me before doing the food - no matter what I did, the biochemistry held me back and I couldn't get past it. I read so many self help books, but couldn't do anything that was in them. But after I was steady, I began to be able to apply some of what I had read, because I wasn't trapped in biochemical patterns.
Allison

: Sometimes exciting and sometimes not
: so. I always thought alcoholics
: caused a stir but looking back, I
: was pretty dramatic and thought I
: was the one in control. Though I
: am feeling better , I do really
: want a lifelong solution not
: another fix. So I am still
: worried, especially now that I see
: how mixed up I really am and how
: much I contributed to my own
: chaotic life. So though the food
: can make my body feel better, I
: wonder if I really can make me
: have a healthy choice or have
: healthy feelings? I tried the
: gamut of counciling with behavior
: mod, changing thinking, alanon,
: many self help books, ..... Is it
: a combination? When I think of all
: that it is overwhelming. Then I
: want comfort and that is either
: calling someone to be nurtured or
: accepted or eating. Other people
: don't have to do that. I can hear
: parents say quit babying yourself
: you are just lazy get up and do
: something. I just had a nice
: dinner so I don't think I am crazy
: right now. I did crave sugar and
: went to the store right before
: dinner just to get a chocolate
: donut. I just had 3 bites than
: threw it away and ate a banana.
: Then had dinner of 3 turkey
: meatballs and a redbeet salad. I
: had brown rice for breakfast and
: lunch and didn't want any more. As
: I fell asleep after lunch , I am
: thinking too many carbs in a cup
: of brown rice?