and you pull it all together at the end
Sunday, 9 July 2006 23:57![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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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!
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!
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Date: 10 Jul 2006 23:08 (UTC)*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!