This just might be good news for fat smokers everywhere.
The only thing better than a pill that can actually help you stop smoking would be good treatments (or prevention)for the diseases that smoking causes, so we could all go back to enjoying ourselves.
You know, I quit just about a year ago--I honestly have no idea the actual date. If I had obsessed enough about not smoking to actually mark the thing, there’s no way I would have managed to not pick another one up. I had a few smokes last month, when I had the worst case of PMS I have ever had in my life, and verified that they are still very, very nice. Mmmm, yummy. But they don’t fit into my lifestyle anymore, and I suppose that’s a good thing.
Smoking conquered, I’m holding out for the fat fighting pill, since quitting certainly didn’t help minimize my weight gain and I’m having a hell of a time taking it off. Since it was folded into the pregnancy gain, I have no idea how much the smoke-quitting cost me, weight-wise, but the other time I quit I gained about 15 pounds, and judging by how much I gained when I think the penalty was similar this time. Want to know frustration? Quit smoking and gain weight doing it. Trust me, you don’t get congratuated for having quit, you get scolded for being fat. I swear if I didn’t want more kids I’d give up doctors again (no offense to any of y’all in the audience). But that, as they say, is a whole other rant.
Good for you, Deb! 15 pounds is a whole heck of a lot less dangerous to you than a pack a day smoking habit. Now that you’ve beaten the nicotine monkey, you can work on the food monkey. One at a time. Now that Sadie’s bigger, maybe you should look into Mommy and Me classes at the Y (here they have yoga/exercise with baby as well as the swim classes) and spend your ex-smoke money getting in shape....
I need to beat the food monkey myself. Well, ok, it’s probably not a monkey. It’s a sloth.
Posted by caltechgirl on 03/09 at 09:56 AMMy anti-social ass at Mommy and Me classes? ROFL! Not going to happen.
I appreciate the intent, but my point is that I’d like a break from people telling me to beat monkeys. Or sloths. *grin* I’d like to be just plain ol’ me for a bit, instead of a project that nobody is ever happy with the outcome of.
Posted by Deb on 03/09 at 10:32 AMI said you CAN work on the food monkey. Hell, I’ve been “working on it” for 12 years. Doesn’t get me anywhere, so far as I can tell. I couldn’t even lose more than 10 pounds for my wedding....
And really, my point was that you deserve a heck of a lot of credit for putting down the smokes, so you don’t need to put pressure on yourself to beat down the other things.
Posted by caltechgirl on 03/09 at 06:34 PMGotcha.
This is a tremendously sore subject with me. Apologies.
Posted by Deb on 03/09 at 07:13 PM
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