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 Back in the spring, I tried following the menus in The Ultimate Weight Solution Food Guide.  As I recall, for the whole month (or most of it) I had abdominal pain, intestinal cramps, and possibly gas and diarrhea.  And after all of that, I lost maybe one pound.  So I got discouraged and quit.  Does anyone have any clues about why this happened and what I could differently to make it work better?

Also, does anyone know of a video tape for learning the exercises with the elastic bands? I ordered them and tried to follow them by following the instructions that came with them, but I often felt like I was missing something.

Also, my husband has told me that he heard in the news awhile ago that Dr. Phil's weight loss program had been discredited and the books had taken off the bookstore shelves.  I can't believe that this is true, and I never heard anything like this.  Can anyone please tell me if this was a nasty rumor, or what is going on with that?

Thanks,
djsnjones

 I found a place to get a video for the exercise bands....

http://www.spriproducts.com/subcategory.cfm?category_id=35&subcategory_id=248%20&CFID=3200337&CFTOKEN=83801704

I don't recall losing more than 1-5 lbs in the whole month.  Maybe I wasn't doing everything correctly.

I'm also having a little trouble figuring out how this message board works.  It's different than the Hostboard group that I belong to.

djsnjones

Last September I volunteered for a week at the River Center shelter in Baton Rouge. I am a nurse with a specialty in homebirth, so I was living at the shelter, and along with a midwife and a doula, we were doing what we could for the pregnant women and young mothers. In that short amount of time, I grew very fond of some of them, and of some of the Red Cross volunteers. The last couple of days that I was there, I carried around a notebook and copied down some of their email addresses. But on the last day, in the rush to catch my train, I left the notebook behind. When I got to the train station, I tried to contact someone to rescue the notebook for me, but they were unsuccessful. It's been so hard to be so cut-off from almost all of them, with no way to figure out how to contact them. Some of them were due to move to that trailer park near Baker, Louisiana. I will try to find a way to see this show, so that I can see if I catch a glimpse of someone that I knew there. I wish that there was some kind of message board where Katrina shelter friends could find each other. But I think that to do so with confidence we'd have to post our pictures with each post. Thanks for doing this show, Dr. Phil.

 I have a hoarding problem very similar to that of the woman on the show today.  It's very upsetting to both me and my husband.  I long to be healed, but I don't know how.  It's overwhelming and very anxiety-producing.  I even subscribed to the Clutter Workshop, but I'm too anxious and overwhelmed to read it.  I hope that Dr. Phil has an answer that I can relate to and work with, because I don't want to live out the rest of my life this way.  I long so profoundly to be different.  I long for it so much that I can't even express it in words.

 So the answer for this woman is.....

1) She can be fixed.
2) New understandings and techniques mean that she can be fixed fairly quickly.
3)  She will be sent to Dr. Lawless's clinic to find out the cause of her illness, and to be treated for it.
4)  She will be fixed fairly quickly.

So what about the rest of us?  What can we do if we can't afford to go see Dr. Lawless?  Is there a book or something that we could use as a resource?

 I wish that Dr. Phil would make a differentiation between "Alienation" and "Alienation Syndrome".  I wish that he would use his education and experience to teach people about what that difference is, rather than poo-poo it as just a semantics game.  It's obvious that parents often put their children between them in a divorce and sabotage their relationships--it happens so much.  But that is much different, it seems to me, than this "Alienation Syndrome"--a "syndrome" that has no science behind it and has no support of the legitimate psychology community of professionals. It seems to me that this fake psychological "syndrome" is frequently used in sex-abuse cases, and it also seems to me that it is misused to defend the parent who is conducting the sex abuse.