bookworm

Dot, One secret to losing pounds and keeping them off is to prepare your own food. Last fall I lost 7 pounds without even trying simply by avoiding the cafeteria at work. Lord knows what they put in some of that stuff! When I bring my own food I know what is in it. Avoiding prepared food will help. Even the stuff called "Healthy Choice" is full of salt and who knows what else. As I've heard, "Eat food that has been alive RECENTLY." I'm not real picky about organic foods, but organic peanut butter is a world apart from the regular kind. And it really fills you up. Has fat but it is the good kind, and no hydrogenated fat. Thats the stuff that will kill you. Exercise helps. I don't know if you like classes, but I recently joined a 3 times a week Jazzercize class and it is a blast. It's fun and people are friendly. I find the gym crowd in my area kind of snooty and competetive. And Lord knows I will never ever ever go to a Bally's!! :D--> It is interesting to read the comments on this thread. What works, what doesn't, lots of ideas. Good luck! bookworm

Hope and Oldies, that must be the year. You both have memories better than mine. I had just turned 15. There were a lot of young teenagers there. What a sicko! There was a lot of nasty, borderline and over the line porn in that class. I don't remember being told we could leave during the fido film, though I'm sure we were, and fool that I was I stayed. Musta wanted them to think I was real spiritual. At 15! Memory flash!: vpw's daughter Sara was there, no? She was my age or a year younger maybe? I think I was there for the whole 3 weeks, helped with children's camp for PFAL, and maybe with the other classes as well. Jeepers Creepers, bookworm

Rochelle was a very sweet person, though I did not know her well. The whole suicide in the way issue is very big with me; a young man I was very fond of killed himself in his late 20s. Based on conversations I had with him, I very much blame the way leadership. More on that later, I have to get my thoughts together. This other issue about the dog tape: I know I saw it, and I think it was at a CF&S class vpw taught at a way summer camp on Shelter Island, NY in the early/mid 70s. I would have been all of 15 or 16 at the time. Was anyone else there? I may be getting the timing of my memories all mixed up, but I'm pretty sure it was there. I also remember the line that the dog had more sense than the women. I can't recall which poster(s) refer to vpw as Sick Vic, but I'm likin' that name more all the time, as the greasespot brings back and helps me deal with memories and wounds. bookworm

TommyZ, congrats on your new cat. My two are also black and white (they are brothers). "Bob" is a great name for a cat, and I would have named one of mine Bob, but that is my husband's name and things might get a little confusing. I learned a lot reading this thread. My cats are named Pete and Charlie, but one has acquired the nickname Barfmaster. Well, I took Zixar's advice and have kept them on all the same food, and so far so good. On behalf of my carpets, Thank you! bookworm