Big Girl Now But Still Hungry

October 10, 2013 by dorannrule

Have you ever been addicted to anything, or worried that you were? Have you ever spent too much time and effort on something that was a distraction from your real goals? Tell us about it.

The Shame Game

I was 5 ½ years old. It was the first day of kindergarten. I was very proud to be a “big girl.” The teacher called the roll and said, “Children, we have a little baby in the room. Who do you think it is? Please look around you.”

I looked around and soon realized that everyone was staring at ME! I was sucking my thumb. I had always sucked my thumb. But I never did it again (unless you count the times now as an adult, when I am in deep thought).

Giving Up on Cream

I was on a diet to lose weight. I have always been on a diet to lose weight. Someone said that eliminating cream from your coffee would reduce your caloric intake by hundreds of calories a day. I never drank cream in my coffee again, but I’m still on a diet to lose weight.

Gnawing Nails

I bit my nails. I always did do that until I met the man of my dreams. I stopped biting my nails (for looks) and married the man of my dreams, but started smoking instead.

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes

I smoked menthol cigarettes for nearly 40 years! I tried the patch. I bought candy cigarette substitutes. I went to hypnosis but inhaled as I left the session. One morning the act of lighting up made me feel deathly ill. I never smoked again.

I am over those addictions but you never know for sure.

Being an armchair psychiatrist, I concluded that all those bad habits could be blamed on Mother!

She freely accepted the accusations too. Poor Mom!

You see, I was a bottle fed infant and she told me she lived by the sage advice of Dr. Spock. If the book said to feed the baby every four hours and I cried in three (from gnawing hunger), she let me keep on crying for precisely four hours. Have you noticed that most of my addictions seem to come from oral needs?

No wonder I am still always hungry!

The Reasons Most People Are Overweight (loseweighthome.wordpress.com)
Almonds: Best for Reducing Hunger Pangs (medindia.net)

Posted in Daily Prompt, Health, Humor | Tagged Addiction, Habits, humor, hunger, Overweight | 30 Comments

30 Responses

on October 10, 2013 at 1:45 am nutsfortreasure

Awesome story for Daily Prompt!
Oral fixations too funny what else do you do when you are STARVED but what it really is starts with how we just want to be accepted and loved for who we are. The only thing I ever blamed my Mom for was being insistent that we do the RIGHT THING for that I will always be grateful as I try to live my life my way sadly brothers lived in same home and not sure any of those 3 ever got the lessons I did.
Loved your story because it is me and many many others and we did not know your mom 🙂 oh and diet or no diet I will NEVER GIVE UP CREAM 🙂

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on October 10, 2013 at 1:46 am Coming East

What a fun prompt! And I loved the peek into your past addictions. Shame on that teacher for humiliating you! Made my blood boil!

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on October 10, 2013 at 2:00 am Dianna

Oh, that was so sad that the teacher did that to you in kindergarten…. even if it did break you of sucking your thumb….
Never smoked or bit my nails, but I sure have other habits I could stand to break!

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on October 10, 2013 at 2:55 am dorannrule

Mom was a stellar mom in all other respects except for the care and feeding of infants. 🙂 I really never gave up cream. I just don’t have it in my coffee! 🙂

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on October 10, 2013 at 2:58 am dorannrule

Those were in the days when rapping knuckles was acceptable. In fact, I witnessed a male teacher knocking two boys heads together (who were fighting). Wow! Times have changed.

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on October 10, 2013 at 3:02 am dorannrule

I have a few more bad habits not mentioned…. that I can’t blame on Mom! Like retail therapy urges and postponing exercise indefinitely. 🙂 Ah well.

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on October 10, 2013 at 3:41 am Jill Weatherholt

I had a teacher who embarrassed me once in front of the class..I never forgot it. My bad habit…hoarding books! Great job with the story prompt!

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on October 10, 2013 at 3:51 am Randee

Fun to read!

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on October 10, 2013 at 3:55 am mrylyn66

Not a thumb sucker, but struggling to quit smoking, may start sucking my thumb soon after..LOL, great post.

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on October 10, 2013 at 3:57 am Mary

Fun read! Sad about the teacher though – isn’t that just the way life is.

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on October 10, 2013 at 6:59 am katecrimmins

Hey, retail therapy is a good thing. It’s cheaper than a shrink and doesn’t mess up your body like drugs!

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on October 10, 2013 at 7:01 am nutsfortreasure

LOL good one! I gave it up on my apple crisp but NEVER THE COFFEE! My Mom did the best she could with us four teaching us right from wrong I got the lessons FINALLY 🙂

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on October 10, 2013 at 12:05 pm cindy knoke

I think your kindergarden teacher was a sadist. Just like my second grade teacher who ended up in a mental hospital, for life!
I’m not addicted to anything…….
I am NOT addicted to blogging! NO!! NO!
Denial is a sure sign of addiction~

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on October 10, 2013 at 12:19 pm photosfromtheloonybin

What a mean, mean teacher :(. That kind of person should not be allowed to teach!

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on October 10, 2013 at 7:52 pm thehappyhugger

I have heard the term “oral addict” being used before and firmly believe that I am one. I also smoked for a long time and fortunately eventually stopped. I am also on a permanent diet. I think that your kindergarten teacher was really awfully insensitive for doing that to a small child.
Hope you have a good day Dor 🙂

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on October 11, 2013 at 2:14 pm dorannrule

Teachers do leave a lasting impact when they use embarrassment for teaching. Hoarding books is not a bad habit Jill. It just shows how much you value mental exploration. Thanks for your lovely comment. 🙂

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on October 11, 2013 at 2:15 pm dorannrule

Thanks for stopping by my blog Randee!

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on October 11, 2013 at 2:49 pm dorannrule

Love your comment mrylyn! Good luck with stopping smoking. I know how hard that is….

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on October 11, 2013 at 2:51 pm dorannrule

Definitely the way of things and we somehow overcome… 🙂

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on October 11, 2013 at 2:52 pm dorannrule

You’re onto something there Kate! 🙂 Thanks.

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on October 11, 2013 at 2:53 pm dorannrule

I love cream and will put it on anything but coffee. It was just one of those habits that once broken stay broke. 🙂

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on October 11, 2013 at 2:56 pm dorannrule

Hahahaha! You are “a caution” (as they used to say). I forgot I am addicted to blogging too. That makes two of us.

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on October 11, 2013 at 2:57 pm dorannrule

She wasn’t really mean because she gave us all chocolate milk! But she did leave me scarred for life.

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on October 11, 2013 at 3:02 pm dorannrule

Glad I’m not alone in the “oral addict” department. At least the kindergarten teacher stopped me on one bad habit when nobody else could. They used to put hot sauce paste on my thumb, would you believe it? Good thoughts coming your way *hugs*. 🙂

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on October 12, 2013 at 1:52 am nutsfortreasure

Good for you!

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