When I needed some more info/help with DS, I told him that I AM Amazing, and indeed, very brilliant, educated, and a super dedicated parent…lol…but I didn’t know everything and that we needed someone trained in the field in which we needed some advice/knowledge/info etc. We weren’t “broken”, just not so informed about how to make some changes in a particular “life area”. The approach worked for us. He agreed and during the past 90 days we have seen improvement. We hit it hard and went 2x a week for 6 weeks and then backed off to 1x a week and now he is going every other week. Might be worth a try. We had just reached a stopping point/brick wall, and it jump started our efforts. I’m very glad we went. We did change counselors after 2 weeks and the 2nd one was a nice personality fit with DS. Nothing wrong with the first counselor–just didn’t mesh w/ DS’s personality and with counseling, that was of course important (say, versus my ob/gyn…I don’t particularly care for his personality, but he is a great doc).

(((hugs)))

I don’t set timed weight goals for myself….EVER…because life happens and well, I just don’t want to get discouraged and feel like I have failed once again, when i don’t meet that goal. We know the body is a mysterious thing…and will do what it wants to do in its own time….

ya, the pizza probably just made you MORE tired…but I get the whole food for energy thing…brings me right back to the years I used to work the night shift. Its a hard habit and mindset to break. One day at a time, my friend. One day at a time.

could you put in for some management position? I couldn’t imagine taking call forever either.

It’s just one pound, no big deal, right?

I have some foods that puff me up too - and last year I started to cut way back on all carbohydrates & I found to my surprise that it wasn’t hard at all - I liked the foods I ate more of, and I LOVED that hunger went away. I still eat fairly low carb pretty much all the time and it’s been a big shift for me.

I don’t think you have a personality disorder - getting weight under control is wickedly hard, and I don’t know why that is not BROADCAST everywhere.

Hang in there - there are a lot of us who feel like you do sometimes. I found some things that work better for me, and so will you - and on days you don’t, do what you did here — VENT!

roasted veggies…yum…had some the other day.