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I've been on 15+ psychotropic medications, and Effexor was by far the hardest to wean off of. The withdrawal symptoms were just awful.

Regarding EBV: Unfortunately, there's a seed of truth in his claims; EBV has been linked to the development of a few different cancers, though its role is not fully understood. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/path.4459 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11899-015-0263-4…

Ah, I didn't notice that; I just went by that blurb, and was basing it on his grandmother.

While the whole spirit thing is just ridiculous, I do have to wonder if it's a smell-based thing. Dogs can be trained to smell certain cancers, including lung cancer, and there's at least one person, Joy Milne, who can smell Parkinson's disease. She also seems to be able to detect cancer. Mind you, it doesn't make him any…

Having to constantly weigh, and log everything definitely led to the downfall of my first attempt to lose weight. I have OCD, so becoming obsessive about it was ridiculously easy, and it started to turn into ritualised behaviour. Eventually, there was so much anxiety about the whole thing, that I just burnt out, and gave…

I think some people can definitely be trained to do it, but it takes practice, and time. When I started trying to lose weight last year, I was weighing my food. I lost weight. This year, I am not weighing my food regularly. I am losing weight. Every now, and then, I'll weigh my food to see if I eyeballed it correctly, and…

I love heels, and wore heels very often even while being overweight. I still wear them often. This thread just gives me more motivation to lose weight xD

Has an lumbar epidural shot been suggested? I have juvenile disc degeneration disease (so several herniated discs + sciatica), and the shot does wonders for me. Since mine is a progressive disease, I have to keep taking it, but if it's a single injury, one shot might be sufficient.

Can you make your diary public? How much of your exercise calories are you eating back?

Do you use a food scale to weigh your food?