Originally Posted by SeanStew
I just wanted to share this with you guys, maybe some of you can relate..
Anyway so I'd been an avid weightlifter since junior high/high school, for sports and just for the love of it. So one day I moved out with some friends, little did i know that these kids were heavily in to drugs. I had done my share of experimenting before but never this deep. There were drugs around all the time and pretty soon I was doing anything I could get my hands on. going from a nice lean 155lbs (yea i'm skinny) to a slightly chubby 139 lbs, I was getting depressed and I ended up getting busted by cops for drugs.
anyways, so I moved back home with my parents, cleaned myself up, stopped hanging around the old friends who used. started hanging with my high school buddys again....still something was missing. being an addict, you constantly need the sensation of being "Full", it doesnt matter what you do to "Fill" yourself, but you just need that..So anyway I went back to my old gym, picked up some weights a little bit...and that was it, I was in love again with bodybuilding and i havent looked back.
Now I know more than ever about bodybuilding (much thanks to ppl on this site) and I look better than I ever have before... In one of my rehab classes, the teacher told us that we are "Addicts" and will be for forever. And at first that really upset me, but I realized: "That doesnt mean I'm addicted to DRUGS for forever" that just means that I have an addictive personality and am intense in what i like"...Anyway, just was thinking about this lately and was happy that I've replaced my addiction with one of the greatest things for you..Bodybuilding/Nutrition.. Kinda corny but it makes me happy to think about. :7up: