This is an amazing forum. I've been around the site for years, but I am reading the posts on this forum like I can't get enough. Post after post I read and think that it could have been me writing.

I'm just pulling my head out of the food gutter after a year face down in the carbs. And jeez it's hard, and hard starting knowing that the loss of control can be so devastating and have such lasting repercussions.

I guess it comes down to this: really, what choice to we have? RolyLeo, you nailed it. Here's the choices: we control what we eat for the rest of our lives, or we eat without control for the rest of our lives. Damn. There is no Door #3 for some of us, and for most of us, that choice was made long before we knew a choice was being made.

But somehow, in a way, rock-solid knowing that is kind of peaceful.