What a delightful family you have, Pam! Imagine a 14-yr old who gives spontaneous hugs. Autism is a major challenge as are the teen yrs; sounds like you're a great mom & I send both applause & lots of prayers for you & Jackie.

Turtlini! Oh, wow, my mouth & with sheer pleasure just saying that name. What fun! I'm a big fan of reptiles in general, especially lizards. Snakes enchant me. Yeah, I'm weird as well as bipolar .

I got myself in hospital & was on mood stabilizing meds for nearly a month. They really helped, more than all the anti-depressants I'd swallowed over the decades. It was only after I went to a pdoc as followup after release from hospital that anyone mentioned bipolar. I was stunned, but the meds were working so well that I was just so relieved to feel the way I did that I didn't care what label they used. I started reading, asking questions--& I was lucky to have a psychiatrist willing to talk & answer questions until I was satisfied with the answers. He was the one who sent me here.

Thanks for filling me in about you. I'm so glad you're a fighter! I had a friend in college badly injured in a motorcycle accident. He fought valiantly thru rehab but when it came to day2day living he just gave up. Whatever inner secret you've got, I pray you always have it.

You're a writer! Me too. My...umm...3rd career. Took it up while caring for my dad & was homebound. Discovered early on I loved the writing part & was very good at it; conversely, hated marketing & was abysmally dreadful at it. Was offered a chance to do ghostwriting & seized it. Still do a little, but memory problems make writing difficult now.

This has been such fun. Take care.

dear Pammie,
I am so happy for you that things are going well for you and your family.
really happy for you guys!
have a great day and thanks for posting again.
bizi

I agree this has been fun! It's always great to make new online friends who've been in close to the same boat especially.

Thanks Bizi! I am so happy to be able to say things are good like this. I am glowing from my son's weight loss, and my own progress is also nice. I will get under 200 before too long. We'll all be at our goal weights before we know it. Life style changes are like that, they just work because you get into a routine of living. We had a good stretch of time where things weren't so good. So that makes it nice to have a good stretch of progression forward. Summer is almost over and I am looking forward to lifting pen to paper again so to speak.

So happy for both you and Jackie.

Not sure how Jack is doing. But happy for him too.

I am hoping to one day get down to 180. WOw, I said, it out loud.

But have to get under 200 first. that is not happening soon.

Donna

I know I can get to 180, I see it in my minds eye. Jack is doing well, and we're very pleased with the results this diet is giving us, all three of us. They say that just SAYING a desire out loud is the first step to achieving it in real life. I just worked out this morning, I knew I had no choice it's a lifestyle change, it involves reprogramming your bodies, the mental body to be disciplined enough to stick to a new exercise and diet regime for at least one month. If you can do that you can pretty much fly form there on out and stay riding the waves of successes you have as you reshape your physical body to match the one you see in your mind. I am 212 and need weighed again soon, but with the period in the way that is why I am still over 210. So 200 is in sight at this point.

If you're interested, check this out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IwkBpOrWqQ

If you're interested in it it's very enlightening. I am working with Jack to restructure our water and I think it's an amazing documentary on the properties and structure of water. Fascinating stuff, but it's 86 minutes long so maybe book mark, watch some and then get bored and come back. I watched it in its entirety though, I was enthralled. See what you guys think.

Lovely, yes. Art + science. Their claim that water is unique to earth is, I think, not valid. H2O ice on our moon, Mars, a Jupiter moon, other places...

I'm so restricted in diet-diets. I'm a vegetarian. Bummer. Really all I can do is go on a juice fast for a couple of weeks. Usually add backpack with increasing weight on my daily walks, & that knocks off a lb/wk.

Sure does go ON a whole lot faster...

I saw that too, I didn't agree with it either, that was the only thing I didn't like too JudeLauren. I think water brings life to planets and it either blossoms or it doesn't, depending on the other external factors of the planet. I think it travels vast distances with life frozen in animation and when one crashes into a planet that could support life like Earth can, it melts into the existing seas and bodies of water.

The rest of this program was very impressive in the depictions of different types of structured water, from the negatively charged water to the positively charged water. Very interesting stuff. Pretty seeing what the holy water is charged up to look like as a crystal.