Goal update
May 27, 2008 5:47pm
I'm on a new plan and have been for almost two weeks now. I've lost 6lbs. already and would like to lose 25lbs. more before I go away end of …
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Katefindinghope
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Trying to get back on track!
About Me
I'm a sensitive watery pisces. I love too much and like to live in my fantasy world as much as possible. I'm easy to get along with b/c I'm pretty easy going. I have very strong intuition and know within minutes of meeting someone whether or not we will be friends. I work full time with special needs kids in the school system. I have a wonderful boyfriend, Luke, whom I hope to marry in the next year. He means the world to me, and I can't wait to have him by my side everyday. He has a 6yr. old little boy, and we hope to add siblings in the near future. I live in Pitt Meadows in my own apartment with my kitty cat Kailo. He's my best buddy!!!
Interests
I LOVE nature...water especially. Water takes me outside of myself. I really like going for walks on windy autumn days. I also LOVE to write!!! Music!!! Music is SO much of who I am; it's the very breath I breathe. I'm also very much into photography, painting, and want to take pottery classes this year. I can be shy when I don't know you but once you get to know me I'm anything but shy!! It all depends on my moody rainbow! This website rocks!!!! I get so much love and support here it's amazing!!
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Looking for some serious losers!!!
May 14, 2008 6:43pm
Hi to all reading this,
Have you seen the TV show Biggest Losers? Did you find it inspiring? There's a group of ladies I formed a group with and …
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Thanks for all your support. Glad you are back. Was getting worried about you. Everything ok? Fill me in when you get a chance of where you went for so long??? Glad your back!
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Thank you for answering my question on Yahoo Answers and directing me here! I hope you have a great day and i'm looking forward to getting help here and getting to know you! :)
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hey! i haven't talked to you in forever, how have you been lately?
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smile a while and while you smile, smile another smile and soon there will be miles and miles of smiles just because you smiled : )
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Close Bipolar Disorder
Managing okay these days. I'm working two jobs so I'm so busy I don't think I have time to think about how I feel. I have been a little down lately though. I stopped all my meds Dec 07 but have recently added back the Prozac to fight the depression.
Treatments
- Group Therapy Working / Worked
- I go to a self referred bipolar and depression support group and it does help to know that I'm not alone in the way I'm feeling.
- Seroquel Not Working
- Gained major weight!!! GRRRRR
- Tegretol Working / Worked
- Topamax Not Working
- Actually had a seizure like incident on it.
Close Obesity
Fat!! Gotta lose this weight before I jeopardize my health and my chances of having babies!!
Treatments
- Avoid Certain Foods / Chemicals Working / Worked
- Worked temporarily...but the weight came back.
- Meridia Not Working
- Just made me sit on the toilet a lot!
- NutriSystem Not Working
- Yuck!!
- Overeaters Anonymous (OA) Somewhat Helpful
- Physical Exercise Somewhat Helpful
- Didn't lose the weight fast enough for me and gave up. Worked temporarily.
- Topamax Not Working
- See bipolar!
- Weight Watchers Somewhat Helpful
- It worked but again, I hit a plateau and stopped losing and got frustrated.
- Xenical Not Working
- YUCK!! Too many side effects. Didn't really drop much weight on it.
Open Financial Challenges
I'm broke! Working as much as I can...and apartment broke!
Open Insomnia
I don't have a problem falling asleep but a problem staying asleep. I feel exhausted in the morning, and sometimes I wonder if I have sleep apnea as well. I wake up suddenly sometimes, and lately I have acid reflux at night so bad that I wake up because I've almost vomitted. It's terrible.
Treatments
Open Self-Injury
I have been cutting since I was around 12 or so. I started doing it regularly when I was 14. I haven't cut in a while now. I still think about it sometimes when I'm feeling overwhelmed, but I'm learning to find other ways to deal with things.
Treatments
- Rubber Bands Working / Worked
- Only worked for a while though.
- Squeezing Ice Working / Worked
- Doctor in hospital recommended that one. I don't really think it worked all that well though.
- Rubber Bands Somewhat Helpful
- Sometimes works
- Squeezing Ice Somewhat Helpful
- Worked temporarily.
Open Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Trying to find out if this is what I have. By what I've read it would sure explain a lot over the past couple of years.
Open Eating Disorders
I was a normal kid....gained a little weight around 12. My dad used to tease me relentlessly. I started hiding my eating or not eating at all. I was in full blown ana by 14. Then I got out of that through IP and that's where I learned about Mia. I gained back the weight I'd lost and started Mia full time. I was Mia for the rest of my teens and my 20s. I stopped a few times resulting in weight gain. I'm now stopped and very overweight!! I'm trying not to go back there but it's SOO tough!!!
Treatments
- Group Therapy Not Working
- I was a teenager and didn't want it. It was forced.
- Prozac Working / Worked
- Did stop the obsessiveness with Mia. Dammit!!
- Psychotherapy Not Working
- Same as group therapy.
- Residential Treatment Center Not Working
- Regular hospital. It didn't work cuz I didn't want it to, though I did gain weight. UGH!! Just made me more determined. I was a teen at the time.
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