: Please can you help me. I am a
: recovering alcoholic seven months
: sobriety. Since I have stopped
: drinking I have found that I'm
: completely addicted to sugar.

: I read Kathleen's book potatoes not
: Prozac and immediately understood.
: I have been doing the breakfast
: now for four weeks and feel I am
: ready to start doing my journal
: although I think this will be the
: hardest part for me as I hate
: writing diaries for anything that
: commits me to many times a day.

: Since I have started doing breakfast
: I seem to have been eating so much
: more sugar. It's almost like I
: have permission to continue eating
: as much sugar as I like. My
: addiction is getting far worse.

: I went to an Aa meeting tonight and
: on the way there I ate 3 packs of
: toffee I had already eating
: chocolate biscuits puddings and
: other rubbish all day and very
: little healthy food other than my
: breakfast which consist of a
: protein shake with bananas
: strawberries and oats.

: In the meeting I'm starting to feel
: very unwell sick headache shaking.
: I have to leave the meeting when I
: got outside I realised my life was
: again unmanageable and this time
: it was not the alcohol it was the
: sugar I need to stop this now.

: My first reaction is to try to detox
: sugar immediately I am piling
: Weight on and feel desperately
: unhappy at also feel ill I am
: scared I will get diabetes heart
: disease or many other illnesses if
: I don't stop straightaway.

: However if I follow the program on
: the steps I am only just starting
: STEP2 which could mean I am many
: many months away from the sugar
: detox and I feel I need this very
: soon if not immediately.

: Is it okay to go straight to step
: three at the same time of STEP2 at
: least then I will feel I have a
: little control over this and will
: only be eating sugar with meals.
: Does anyone have any advice
: please.

: I am due to go to ranch in October
: and can't wait to meet you guys
: anything that can help make my
: life more manageable before then
: and take away this fear would be
: so helpful. Thank you so much

Hello, my name is Heather and I live in London UK. I am just starting out on my RR journey and this is the first time I have posted on the Forum.

Well done for putting your thoughts and feelings into an e-mail. I have not started Step 1 yet but it seems to me that if you can do this, then you can journal, it's just a matter of learning how to practise a skill.

I have experienced severe depression and I believe that a person can change from to but it takes time and there will be setbacks. I see something of myself in your desire to rush ahead in the steps. I can recall my father saying to me frequently many years ago "You're trying to run before you can walk".

I wish you well at the Ranch in October and hope you will come back and post about how you get on.

Regards and Best Wishes.

Heather