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Sleeping in past 7am.

Completing my first homework assignment for my Spanish class.

lucid dreams (second morning in a row)

Not expecting to get a t-shirt from my school's occupation campaign for free, but I got one anyway.

Last week I found out about my crush on my physical therapist, today I told someone about my crush, she is a very nice person. I told about my crush cuz it was getting too intense for me, she going to help me, I asked for another therapist, she going talk to her boss. I will still see Matthew that is his name, I will have him once a week. I’m happy about what I did.

I have some pretty good news.

I went to a coffee shop cafe this morning, it's not very far away at all from where I live and most importantly it isn't very busy on a Wednesday morning. I went in and had a strawberry milkshake (my favourite!) and then on my way back home a boy called my name. At first I was really scared, trying to work out who he was and then when he crossed the road I recognised him. George, a boy from school. I hadn't seen him in ages. He offered to buy me a drink but I told him I'd just had one and then we caught up. I told him about the Autism, most people from school I think already knew but he seemed genuinely surprised (I think, I'm not good at reading people's emotions and reactions).

Afterward George asked if I wanted to grab a milkshake with him tomorrow morning, I said I'd think about it and he said to let him know. Like a complete idiot I said 'what like a date?' which made him go bright red... I like George, he's a nice looking boy and he is very friendly but I'm not sure whether to go tomorrow or not. I'm pretty anxious at the moment and I'd hate to make myself ill.

But I'm also very lonely, I'm not sure whether George just wants to be a friend or something more serious. I'm really bad at understanding things like that. So I am tempted to have a milkshake with him tomorrow. I haven't had a friend since Sena died, even a little freindship would be nice.

^ I think you should have a milkshake, see what happens.

Coffee and I am babysitting my sisters dog on Saturday.

He seems like a nice kid. Go for it!

If George gets out of line (provided you don't want him to get out of line LOL), just let him know about it.

I made a plus-sized woman feel good about herself by having a good talk with her about body positivity. What a lovely woman!

People often don't understand how weight problems work. A lot of people have bad thyroids, same with thin people. That makes them already more vulnerable to gain (or lose) weight. Next to that, you have the addiction and comfort of what food brings. Those people often get bullied, have a low self-image and get treated like crap by their environment. Things like loneliness, job or money problems, really anything that causes stress or anxiety can trigger an eating disorder or addiction. Just being a hermit, not doing anything can make you slowly get bigger and bigger.

Until a person feels better about themselves, accepts themselves for who they are, feels good in their skin and mental condition, they can't really do anything about it because you don't have the strength. Often bullies tell overweight people that they are fat and bully them with the excuse that it might make them stop eating and start doing something about it. No, it makes them eat more, feel worse about themselves. Love them, support them, don't judge them, that is what can help them in losing weight, if they want of course.

And never forget, it isn't your life, so in the end, it's none of your business.

^Bravo! Throughout so much of history, lushly built women were considered the most beautiful... and then there's today.

And just to add to the misery, it turns out that a number of psychoactive drugs disrupt glucose metabolism, usually causing weight gain. How lovely. So if you're already depressed or anxious and the P-doc puts you on meds, you get to be overweight, which is going to make you depressed and anxious.

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Good point Esmerelda!

My mother gained a lot of weight when she started her antidepressant. When she stopped smoking, she also gained a lot of weight.

There is a lot of diabetes (type-2) in my family, and when a few family members got prednisone, they blew up like balloons. Another good example of medication that makes you gain weight.