One Thingular Thinthation

 I read in a report over the AP wire that an experiment involving mice fasting every other day and then eating regularly on the other days had significant health improvements, including benefits associated with a possible reduction in Alzheimers Disease, longer lifespans, .  Hmmmmm I wonder how we can totally morph this into our ED?  :P Here's the quote from the article, which was pretty interesting...

"Mattson said an earlier study found that mice that fasted every other day had extended life spans and the new experiment found the mice also did better in factors involved in diabetes and nerve damage in the brain similar to Alzheimer's disease.

"We think what happens is going without food imposes a mild stress on cells and cells respond by increasing their ability to cope with more severe stress," Mattson said. "It's sort of analogous to physical effects of exercise on muscle cells."

He said the researchers think this stress occurs throughout the body, and that may be the reason fasting seems to increase lifespan and the animals become more resistant to the diseases of aging. "

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new blog where we get to use our voices...if it's going to be read by parents or therapists or others like us, it may be a good idea....

 I think that's it....I'm so bad at addresses, but's it at blogger so it should be easy enough to find...I'm on day 3 of 2468 and hanging in there...I've had 170 cals and it's 2:48 PM so this evening should tell the tale...I'll have some chicken broth (20 cals) and maybe some yogurt.

Well, hope everyone else is well and happy....stay strong...visit the new blog and keep it going...they want to use it as a forum for our voices so that we can say whatever we want and have safety while saying it...things we want to say to our parents or therapists or friends or anyone, we can say there and they can look it up and wonder, "Hmmmm, I wonder if that's so and so talking to me". Anyway, the theory sounds good. Any forum for angels like us is good, right?

Hugs.

 So, they are running an ad here in the states with Sarah MacLachlan singing that haunting, beautiful song, "In the Arms of an Angel" while showing pictures of abandoned animals...I can't stand it, it just kills me...so today, while humming the damn song, I found myself in front of Animal Samaritans...so I went in...and played with a small dog named "Abby" ...and then I came home and got my dog, Buddha, and took him back to play with her and the adoption counselor said there would be no problems because neither of them showed alpha tendencies and were very accepting of each other, almost like they'd known each other for years...and then I came home with my dog and ate whatever wasn't nailed down...because I have to talk everyone else into wanting Abby...and I realize that I will use virtually ANY excuse to eat something...in fact, National Bird Week is coming up and I'm sure I'll celebrate it with some kind of binge...ewwwwww

 I'm going to try the 2468 starting Tuesday...I just found out we're taking a road trip tomorrow on Monday...I'm not sure where, either the beach or Joshua Tree....maybe I can talk everyone into hiking the Pacific Crest Trail...that way I could hike off calories...these road trips are killers....the car is absolutely loaded with food...LOADED...and we eat and talk and eat and talk and eat and talk...I'll be okay with my diet drink but I'll have to figure out a way to act like I'm eating...which, frankly, I'm getting sick of...I just might say, "I'm not eating junk today, I brought apples and veggies or whatever so I can eat healthy"....oh yea, that'll fly....*insert sarcasm here*

Hey...I need to speak a truth here my friends....I am new to this community....also, joining here and "coming out" among friends and comrades has been very good for me...I'm under a lot of pressure (who isn't)...that said, I should explain that I am a graduate student....in Psychology....going for my doctorate....so if I sound a bit "therapeutic" or preachy, please please please please forgive me....it is just my training and my love and my understanding...my DEEP understanding and empathy of what we all feel....so few people actually "get" us....when I have tried to explain the joy in seeing a bone emerge through layers of fat or muscle and then watch each day as that bone defines itself, people look at me like I'm crazy...and maybe for awhile I was...but I feel like I've been where everyone here has been and maybe now I'm just a little (just a little) more centered about things....so please, forgive me in advance if I offend, or come across as a know-it-all....my heart is in the right place....it's my fat ass that's draggin.... 

 Hey...if anyone can supply me a sample menu of the 2468 diet, I would appreciate it....I can't do it this weekend, family and all would make it hard, but come Monday I'd like to give it a try...my ass is getting bigger and bigger and it just keeps following me where ever I go....it's like the damn thing is connected to me or something....I mean, DAMN, give it a rest girl....but no...I wake up, it's there, I try on clothes, it's there, I take my measurements and my ass is all, "Hey, don't forget me, I want to play and add to the numbers to"....it's all me me me me me.....damn ass....