and you pull it all together at the end

[earthbelow]

1. Crossing my fingers for The Boy tomorrow. You should all do the same. Job interview and all that.

2. Watched a program with my mom about super obese people. I don't mean that in the valley girl sense. The technical term is super obese. They were somewhere in the 600-1000 pound range. I didn't look at it that I'm luckier than them, but that even if their battle is bigger than mine, it's the same battle. Maybe I just want to fit into smaller sizes and get rid of my health issues. Maybe they just want to be able to walk long distances or get out of bed. The two successful women, the ones who lost 800 pounds between them, were the ones who focused on the joys of getting better.

I'm beginning to believe that maybe joy could heal us all.

And the brain scans they showed pertaining to dopamine receptors and obese people seem to back me up.

3. Missed the cap and gown deadline for school. But I'm sure I'm not the first grad to, and I'm totally marching down to the bookstore tomorrow to take care of it. Next time I graduate, I'm not moving at the same time.

4. I've been informed I have a nice surprise waiting for me after graduation. Both The Boy and my mother are in on it. I think my entire family might be. Everyone is keeping mum. But I wanna know now. Not that I don't wanna be surprised, but I wanna know what it is. Come on, we all shake the boxes before we tear the paper off. People are all spoiler whores at heart.

5. TOMORROW IS Q-DAY!

Comments

[jennixen.livejournal.com]

GRADUATION!!!!! :D *hugs*

I think I've read reports about depression and weight problems, not in this extreme cases but in "normal" over weight and I think there is a definite connection there.
Not only have I experienced how depression messes up my eating patterns - makes me forget to eat and to crave sweets more - also it has to do with stress on the brain etc.

[thousandpages.livejournal.com]

Well, the science (as it was explain on the program) said that when people overeat it is because they're looking to stimulate the dopamine receptors in their brain into feeling a sense of pleasure.

*But* when they do this, they do get a little bit of pleasure. But it decreases the dopamine receptors. So it's a vicious cycle.

The good news was, according to the expert, that other pleasurable activities that *aren't* eating can help correct that balance over time.

I'm sure that this vicious cycle in addition to depression (which already does such bad things to your brain chemistry) just *can't* be good.

The thing that they said on the program was that they couldn't really figure out why it was that these people were eating to the point of such morbid, extreme obesity. There were theories ranging from the lack of a hormone that tells you that you're full and you need to not eat to genetics to just plain behavior.

And :

*hugs back* Thanks!

[br0ken_dolly]

maybe it's a pony ;)

[captain-science.livejournal.com]

Shh! Don't spoil the surprise...

[thousandpages.livejournal.com]

I somehow doubt it. But I'll keep the pony option open for now.

Maybe it's a really nice shelf or something from IKEA. That we could use and would be very good.

- Meg

[br0ken_dolly]

maybe it's an ikea pony stable.

[thousandpages.livejournal.com]

Could be an IKEA pony. That'd be really cool. A pony with a strinne green stripe pattern and ergonomic hooves.

[br0ken_dolly]

hahaha.

that'd rock. and it'd match your ikea furniture ;)

[thousandpages.livejournal.com]

You mean my pretend I-saw-it-in-the-catalog-and-dreamed-about-it furniture.

I totally get the "catalogs are the new p0rn" thing they were talking about in Fight Club.

Secretly, I look at wallpaper, paint samples, and Architectural Digest and go to a happy place.

[br0ken_dolly]

i feel that way about office supplies.

but carpet samples also make me warm and fuzzy.

[thousandpages.livejournal.com]

Dude! I totally have office supply love! I mean, staplers and post-its and pens and pencils and notebooks and envelopes. File folders!

*shudders, sighs*

*DUDE*.

but carpet samples also make me warm and fuzzy.

I'm more of a tile kinda girl.

But the innuendo in that sentence is beautiful.

[br0ken_dolly]

the coolest part of my job for awhile was ordering office supplies ;) or going down to the admin's office and taking the stuff she ordered for everyone. o' teh_love!!!

lol. carpet samples.