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Pat was a food addict in recovery when she began drinking.\xa0 She spent most of her life overweight and having a severe addiction to food.\xa0 She learned to use food to feel comfort whenever she felt rejected or guilty.\xa0 Pat ate until she was sick for the better part of 20 years, withdrawing from the world and gaining well over a hundred pounds.\xa0 After seeking bariatric surgery, Pat lost the weight but would later learn she never resolved the reasons why she ate.\xa0 Through the course of normal celebrations, Pat would drink alcohol; but a post-gastric bypass patient, alcohol\u2019s affects would hit her much faster and harder than a normal person or even a regular alcoholic.\xa0 The alcohol, at first, gave her the same comfort and high as the food did before.