Inauguration

My name is Arthur and I am an addict.

I always was, am and always will be - I've come to terms with this fact. The only real choices I have in this inevitability are: to what things am I going to be addicted.

Right now I'm mainly hooked on exercise but I also have a lifelong unhealthy relationship with food that regularly rears it's ugly head. I'm also a recovering drug and prescription pill addict, I self medicated my problems with depression and anxiety for years and years - to what I thought was the 'point of no return' but from which I am somehow in the process of miraculously returning.

I've been sober a little less than two and a half years now, also cigarette free for a year and a half and have now been exercising regularly for eight months. I made some huge changes to my diet about two months ago and am beginning to lose weight and put on muscle at a rate that sometimes scares me. I am not only becoming a different person mentally, thanks to the clear headedness that accompanies sobriety, but am now also becoming an entirely different person physically as well.

My intention with this blog is to document this journey that I'm on and, while it will mainly serve as a personal journal of my thoughts and experiences, my hope is that if someone somewhere comes across it and needs help with starting or continuing their own journey towards a healthier lifestyle, maybe something I'll write can help to inspire them