56. Life by the
Numbers
The speaker that night said her addiction was to numbers:
lower numbers on the bathroom scale, fewer calories, and more and more miles on
the treadmill. When that didn’t fill the
void, she’d drink one or ten too many glasses of wine.
“The day after a binge,” she said, shaking her head, “I’d
calculate how many calories I drank the night before. I’d punish myself by skipping meals, or
burning off those calories on a treadmill. If my weight went up, I’d drink a bottle of
wine to calm my nerves. The cycle would
start over. I lived by the numbers until
I almost died.”
“Wanna hear some good numbers?” she asked. “I’ve been sober
for fifteen years. I follow my healthy
meal plan one day at a time. My husband
and I have been married for ten years.
We have three boys, two dogs, and one cat. I couldn’t put a number on how much I love
them.” She told us about her quirky
habit of finding something to be happy about every day, tied to an even
number. “Today is my middle son’s fourth birthday.”
Today I’ll find a number of reasons to be
happy.
Life on Life's Terms III (c) 2016 by
Ken Montrose
Life on Life's Terms III is a work of fiction. Any resemblance between the
characters and anyone you might know is purely coincidental.
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