I’ve had a very busy weekend folks.  This weekend I attended the Dr. Grant Mullen conference in Regina called “Breaking Free”.  It was an interesting conference and Dr. Mullen is an entertaining speaker.  Dr. Mullen views mental health as a three pronged affair, affecting body, soul and spirit.  He maintains that any treatment plan that doesn’t take all three into account is shortchanging the patient.

I was very interested in his approach on a couple of fronts.  First, because I came to the conclusion when educating my children that those three areas were the main areas that needed addressing.  I’ve been playing with them from the educational theory viewpoint ever since.

 And second, because, while information on medication (body) and emotional health (soul) is readily available, very little has been said or written about the role of the spirit in mental illness.  At least, very little that is constructive to the mentally ill!  Usually it consists of church people saying you don’t have enough faith if you’re mentally ill.  This is hardly constructive to the depressed person who can’t concentrate on anything because of a chemical imbalance.  If you can’t concentrate you can’t pray effectively, study the Bible effectively, worship effectively, or manage small groups like Bible study or other volunteer work within the church effectively.

I did a very un-frugal thing.  I bought all of Dr. Mullen’s DVDs and brought them home.  I’ve already talked to one friend and she wants to watch them with me.  Paul says he’d like to view them too.  I have one that is going to the church library. 

My reasoning for the purchase is that I have wasted tons of money on professionals and alternative health practitioners trying to deal with my mental health issues and issues related to it.  For a fraction of the price I could have these DVDs at home at my disposal whenever I needed them.  Plus they filled a gap in my education about this disease…the spiritual side of it.  In other words, I know I’m going to get some help from them.  The conference showed me that.  That’s a better deal than the $200 I put out last year on a naturopath that only told me I couldn’t afford her $450/mth. fix to my problems!

Dr. Mullen also writes material for the secular world, and offers conferences to them.  His  book, “The Breakthrough Solution”, is aimed at the corporate world and is a humorous short read (100 pages). 

It was a great conference and an opportunity to connect with people in the health care profession.  I was surprised by the number of doctors and nurses I saw there.  I chatted with one lady about ADHD and bipolar in adolescents.  And another who runs a program for the mentally ill locally.  People came from quite a distance away as well.  And when Dr. Mullen asked how many people were not from the local church, fully three quarters of the people put up their hands!   The man draws his audience from a broad base.

So it was a busy weekend, hence no post Saturday (sorry folks).  I was tired by the end of it…and sick again.  I don’t know what I have, but it’s annoying.  I recommend if you or a loved on is suffering from mental illness that you check out Dr. Mullen’s website and see if his material might help you or them understand their illness better.

I think I need to slow down my life a bit. This morning I was up a bit late. Had my shower and rushed out the door to the gym. Came home, threw together my Brazilian embroidery materials and fled out the door for stitching. I'm glad I went. I met a new lady. Also received lots of advice on my embroidery and the class I'm going to teach. Work to do!

Rushed home. Had lunch.  Was on-line and just finished the on-line boards when the power cut out.  They're replacing a power pole somewhere in the neighborhood.  In order to make good use of the time I went through the mail and read more of "Life Coaching for Dummies" which is actually pretty good.

This week has kind of been like today.  It's fall and things are starting to speed up in town.  My schedule is filling up.  Between that and preparing for our vacation there doesn't seem to be much time to spend on-line or posting to the blog.

I finished the rail fence quilt and am working furiously to finish the top for the kimono quilt by tomorrow.  I want to sandwich it then.  We'll see.

I've finished the first design in Brazilian and am onto the second one.  No pictures because the camera is recharging.

While I quilt I listen to university lectures on-line. There are several for free.  Right now I'm working on LectureFox Online.  I've been having an interesting time of it so far.  I've also been listening to the new episodes of "Till Debt Do Us Part" on Slice TV.  Just click on "video" on the sidebar and you'll find a list of episodes to watch.

I finished reading "Imagine: a vision for Christians in the arts" by Steve Turner.  I appreciated what he was trying to say.  As a parent I struggle with some of the interpretations he made about art.  I am a firm believer of "garbage in, garbage out".  Unfortunately children often can't distinguish the good from the bad.   I think it's very important to gauge the emotional maturity of a child before selecting movies for them to watch...and I don't think Mr. Turner would disagree with me. 

It's an odd reaction for me, considering I started out in the arts in university.  I've painted nudes from life and been exposed to some interesting ideas in the name of art.  I will not paint nudes again because I've met some of the models (some are quite nice thank-you...just very poor, or have other issues that modeling is not helping them solve!).  While I appreciate their modeling as an imperfect solution to an imperfect world...I am not sure I want to be supporting imperfect solutions.

But my real challenge came when I had children.  My view of what was appropriate in art took a direct u-turn.  Having had "Titanic" forced on them by their grandma at far too tender an age ("Grandma made us watch it!" and Grandma admitted she had...it was an important social event of her time!  A good history lesson for them!), and having to suffer the consequences for a considerable time afterwards, I am a big fan of censorship!  Children are far more impressionable than people imagine.  It definitely opened my eyes for the need for guidance...to make sure they could handle what they saw.   And, at their request, we stopped leaving them alone with Grandma.  Too many nightmares and fear of water thanks to "Titanic" left them feeling insecure and unsafe around her. 

But I digress...Mr. Turner's book is actually quite good.  It just pushed a lot of parental buttons with me.  I was able to see his concentric view of looking at how Christians could be involved in the arts...and it was interesting to note where my artist friends fit in the different circles. The outer circle is showing the world how their worldview doesn't work in certain areas.  The second circle is the area expressing the Christian worldview to the world.  The third area is the area of art for the church and by the church...hymns, "The Book of Kells", for example. 

I guess my main concern is if we all operated in the outer circle of simply pointing out what's wrong with the rest of the world and not sharing the message that Christ is the only way to Heaven, that soon the message would be lost.   So I think he is right in having all three circles of involvement there.  And, like him, I do not see anything wrong with a Christian choosing one circle over another...as long as he/she has put thoughtful prayer into it and determined that is where God wants him/her.

Anywaaaay...I did not intend for this to become a book review! 

On the weight loss front...I am 169.6 lbs. Down 18 pounds. Yippee!  I am hoping to drop another 3 lbs. before the end of the month.  We'll see!  I am still going to the gym three times a week.  The fitness therapist is setting up a home program for me for winter soon.  I have decided to take Leslie Sansone's "Walk Away the Pounds" DVDs with me on vacation.  I can just drain the weighted balls before we fly home.  My nephews and I have a standing date for kayaking on vacation as well.  Plus I'm trying to convince Paul to spend the odd night in a hotel with a fitness room.  Won't have much luck there, but it sure would be nice to keep the upper body workout going on vacation.  Lots of kayaking I guess!

I've had good intentions of posting all week.  I just was too tired by the end of the day to do it!

Thursday started fine.  I was canning applesauce, in-between reading and quilting.  Then Meghan phones wanting to know when she wrote the GED.  Well, you'd think that would be an easy thing for me to find...after all...I'm the super organized homeschool mom...right?!  NOT!  I spent over an hour looking for the binder with the test results and can't find it.  I can't imagine where I put the kids test results.  I'm more concerned about losing their SAT I and SAT II results to be honest. 

I finally found the date of the GED on the transcript I'd done up, which was in one of the boxes packed to head east to Meghan.  Good thing I noted on the outside of the box it had her diploma in it.  Otherwise I'd have never thought to look there for anything that might turn up information on her GED!

Of course with all the looking around I forgot I was in the middle of canning.  I'd put some jars on the stove to sterilize in a pot of water.  Anyway, I walked right by the kitchen on upstairs to look for the test results...which led to me searching my files on the computer...read...totally lost track of time...  And that led to quilting... 

Pretty soon a funny smell was permeating the house.  I was thinking it was the neighbor's as our smoke detector hadn't gone off.  I couldn't think for the life of me what it was.  So I followed it to the kitchen.  Where I was greeted with really thick smoke, embers of a dishcloth that was under the glasses in the pan, blackened glass, a very hot pot.  Not a pretty sight.  I quickly turned the burner off and doused everything with baking soda.  I opened all the windows and doors in the house, hauled out the fans and turned them on for about an hour, put some pumpkin spice in a pot of simmering water on the stove, and tried to make the house smell decent before Paul came home from work.

It didn't work.  I didn't fool him for a minute.  I'd put away the fans and dumped the pumpkin spice potpourri by the time he arrived.  I'd also taken the rest of the mess to the trash.  I was able to save the pot...for a wonder.  The bottom just isn't flat anymore.  Still...Paul came in and asked "What was it?"  Thankfully he was good natured about it.  I feel like such a dolt to not remember things.  But that is happening more and more frequently.  I'm starting to get nervous about turning on the stove and appliances for fear I'll forget about them and burn the place down!  I'm having difficulty staying focused and just simply remembering things...and I certainly don't multi-task well.

I didn't feel comfortable cooking in the kitchen after all this (call me frazzled and upset).  So we headed out to dinner to a local restaurant we've been wanting to try for some time.  Discovered they have entertainment Tuesday and Thursday nights.  We might make an effort to get there more often.  However, they are not cheap.  Dinner for two without appetizers or dessert was $62CAD.  We had a salad to share, an entree each, and a glass of wine each.  We walked to and from the restaurant, and actually extended the walk home.

Handwork

That was Thursday.  Friday I went to the gym.  I also pieced the main body of Meghan's quilt top.  I needed a different border and bought it today.  It's in the wash right now.  Hopefully I'll be able to sandwich the quilt and machine quilt it by next weekend.

Saturday I sewed the top to the sampler quit together...except the border...which I have yet to buy.  Can't find anything suitable in the local Fabricland.  Have another one to check.  Now the top is finished it will be easier to audition fabrics.  I am avoiding the expensive quilt store in town.  Their staff don't seem to take the time of day to really look at a project and help you...unless you buy all your fabric from them. 

I have cut some of the pieces for more blocks for the kimono quilt.  I still have some to go, but it's not bad.  I'll piece these at home rather than at the quilting group.  I get more done at home these days.

I continue knitting on my cotton sweater.  It's going to take forever!

Furniture Refinishing

We also started having good weather on Friday.  It's supposed to last a week.  Though every morning they revise it to say we're going to have thunderstorms.  It is variable whether it happens or not.  The weather forecasting is really abyssmal here.  But I decided to take a chance. I put the primer coat on two bookcases on the back patio.  Had to move them to the garage due to threatening rain (which never came), but they were started.  I finished the finish coat on the main parts of the bookcases today, but I still need a second coat on the shelves.

Weight Loss

I've been resting a lot this week, trying to catch up on sleep and general energy levels.  Swimming really was over the top for me.  It hurt my back...which meant I took Advil...which reacted with the Risperdal and gave me very vivid dreams/nightmares...which meant I was up at least once in the middle of the night.  And then Paul would wake me up in the morning when he left for work.  I always wake up tired anyway.  I haven't woken up rested in ten years now...sigh...  The only thing I can do is go back to bed after Paul goes to work.  I prefer to take a nap in the afternoon though.  Paul just goes full steam ahead all day.  I just don't have the energy.  Anyway, with the stoppage of swimming lessons I haven't needed the Advil...and I've slept much better.

I've been very careful about sticking to the Serotonin Power Diet lately, and have been rewarded with a weight drop to 170.8 lbs.  Not bad!  I find I really have to watch those carbs. Yes, I need them mid-morning and mid-afternoon, but they need to be quality carbs and low calorie.  I also have a serving of carb for breakfast and one for supper.  That's four carbs a day...which is plenty for me.

I had to buy new jeans today. My other ones are being held up by the belt and it ain't pretty at the waistline. I tried some on today and I've gone down two sizes since April! Hurray! I felt so good I also picked up an expensive long sleeved t-shirt for fall. And I paid cash for everything! Better yet.

Also took in some other shopping, visited and knit with friends, and had snack (I brought mine from home) in the food court with friends. I drank water from the water fountain when I was thirsty. A frugal fun afternoon.

I've discovered how to make applesauce in the crockpot. I've made two batches now. Both sugarless. One with cinnamon and one without. I had a friend drop off four bags of apples yesterday. Each bag makes two batches...of 5-6 pints each. I'm busy! I'm making a bunch for people at church. I love the canning and cooking process. But there's no way Paul and I can eat it all. And now the kids are gone we have no one in the family to share it with. So off to friends and acquaintances it goes! Paul has put in his request for sugar AND cinnamon in his! LOL

I finished reading "A Promise of Hope" by Autumn Stringam yesterday.  Very moving story.  I'm so glad she wrote it.  And equally glad for Dr. Popper's postscript at the back of the book.  Very helpful.  I've made Paul promise to read it.  My analytical skills aren't so good anymore.  I rely on him a lot to sort through information related to my disease.

I'm reading a slightly weird one now on schizophrenia and natural treatments for it. Some of it is really good.  Some is questionable.  And some is just downright weird.  Oh well...I just skip over the weird parts...or translate them into the Christian equivalent.  The author is obviously not Christian...but his emphasis on schizophrenia being a disease of body, soul and spirit holds true in my experience.

I managed to wash and fold the fabric for the flannel quilt for Meghan, and have it sitting on the cutting board all ready to go.  I'm hoping I have enough of it.  I may need to buy more.

I talked to Lisa about doing a quilt for her.  I'm am feeling as if Meghan is getting a lot from me while Lisa is sadly watching on.  I'm glad I offered.  She has an idea of what she'd like.  I sent her some photos of works in progress to see if any of them appeal to her.  Haven't heard back yet.  Will see...  I have a few ideas...  Probably I will give her the finished kimono quilt.  But knowing their colour scheme I may make some more blocks in the gold/brown/green ranges.

I discovered a new simple healthy dessert tonight.  Normally Paul and I have a dessert we call Pears Piquant.  It is a fresh pear cut in half and cored, and brushed with lemon juice to prevent browning, and topped with a whipped topping.  Usually we use the storebought whipped topping with a couple teaspoons of white wine vinegar and 1/4 c. of plain yogurt added.  Well the sugar in the whipped topping isn't good for me.  So tonight I decided to experiment.  I used about 1/2 c. of plain yogurt and just added 1/16 tsp. of powdered stevia to it.  It worked!  It was almost the same taste as the other topping.  And I managed to shave several calories off my dessert to boot!

Swimming classes ended tonight.  I'm glad I went.  I learned how to do the front crawl better.  But also how to do various strokes in the water that don't require putting my head under water.  Such as side stroke, front crawl with head up, breast stroke with head up, back crawl, and elementary back stroke.  Not bad for six lessons...well...four.  I missed two of them.  It was enough to refresh my memory so I feel more comfortable in the water.  I am amazed at how limiting my back is.  It really affects my kicking.  I definitely need to strengthen my lower body. 

After swimming I met a lady in the change room who looked like she'd lost a lot of weight.  So I started chatting her up.  She had.  She'd lost 30 pounds in one year.  Mostly through exercise.  She runs 2 miles 3 or 4 times a week, does sit-ups, and swims.  She also changed her eating habits.  She's learned to snack on cucumbers and basically eats anything green. She eats fish and chicken.  But avoids red meat and potatoes.  Sounds interesting.  It's one way to make sure people get their fruit and vegetables!

Well that's all folks!  I'm off to finish laundry before bed.  Write to you all later...

April 24th, Starting weight: 187 lbs. 
August 10th, Current weight: 171 lbs.
Net Loss 16 lbs.

Yippee!  I'm getting there!  The gym workouts seem to have upped my metabolism.  I eat more so I can lose weight.  If I eat too little, I stop losing.  I just have to make sure everything going in is really high quality. 

I do have sugar on occasion.  And I do have dairy on occasion...but really really occasionally!  I've mostly switched to using Splenda (infrequently) and stevia.  Or I use applesauce or apple juice concentrate to sweeten foods.  To replace dairy I simply use rice milk.  Cutting out cheese wasn't as hard as I thought.

The gym workouts are great!  I go three times a week.  It's a set appointment time so I can't waltz out of going without garnering considerable consternation.  This is a gym run by physiotherapists and an exercise therapist.  Not your average gym.  They are working my lower back in particular, but also my mid back...both areas I have problems. 

The workout starts with 10 minutes on the treadmill or the stationary bike...my choice.  I like to alternate each visit because I badly need to be better at both!  I practice speed and hills on the treadmill.  Paul has long legs and it takes a quick long stride to keep up to him.  Plus, we have no hills on my particular part of the prairies...and my siblings all live hilly places...so I like to keep some kind of fitness in my leg muscles that do hills for when I visit.

After the bike/treadmill I do a series of ball exercises on the mats.  Mostly working my lower back and abdomenal core muscles.  Then to the exercise machines...well...I just do lat pull downs right now.  Then off to do weights on the bosu ball.  Let me tell you, for an old gal like me that takes coordination!  Then ball squats, lunges, back extension, push ups (not the real McCoy...modified low incline ones).  Then I do 10 minutes of stretching before leaving.

From start to finish it takes about 40 minutes...which is just fine by me.  I don't have time to fool around really.  Too many things to do and places to be! 

I've been doing okay with walking...but am not doing as much as I was.  My third pedometer bit the dust, so I've been gauging my walks by time it takes rather than actual steps.  I find between the gym and swimming I am often too exhausted to walk, but I try to make time every day for even a short one.

Swimming is not going well.  I did fine the first couple of weeks, but then last week for some reason I really freaked out about putting my face in the water.  I spent most of the time figuring out ways to swim without putting my face in water!  The instructor was busy visiting with a friend (this is a very casual adult learn to swim class).  So one of the other students, who is far more advanced, helped me.  I must admit, last week I had gym, a long walk, and swimming all on the same day, and I was pretty tired by the time I arrived at swimming lessons.

I am in the second phase of the "Serotonin Power Diet".  I've started to lose weight again.  Whether that's due to the exercising or the diet or both, I don't know.  I'm just happy it's happening!  I do notice I do not binge so much at meals or on carbs as I used to.  I just know that I need a carb of some sort 4-5 times a day.  I try to make it a low fat, low calorie, high quality carb...like a homemade whole wheat blueberry muffin (80 calories), air popped popcorn (2 c), etc. 

We've discovered some new recipes we really like.  One is Cold Zucchini Soup from Recipezaar.  Paul loves scallops, so we've also enjoyed Lemon Pepper Bay Scallops.  We ate them with broccoli and red potatoes, as suggested.  Yum!

When I feel sweet cravings I head for watermelon or other fruit for the most part.  But if it's carb and sweet I'm after, I often head for a homemade sugar-free muffin or Diabetic Microwave Chocolate Cake-in-a-Mug.  I just remember to exercise after eating this stuff...or only eating it after I've exercised to the point of exhaustion.  Which has happened on occasion!

My doctor has offered to change my medication to help me lose weight...but we'll see about that.  I may not need to with this diet.   The medication she is recommending is new to Canada - Zeldox...or Geodon, and I just want to be sure I'm not signing on for more time on the couch before I take it.  Risperdal has been bad for that...giving me nightmares and being fatigued all day.  Melatonin seems to help, but I can only take it periodically.  I'm just not sure of some of the wilder side effects.  I'd like to see if they are proven before I start the medication...

So all in all I think this weight loss challenge has been good for me so far.  It'll be interesting to see how I do for weight, exercise and diet after our three week visit to the Maritimes this fall!

Well it doesn't quite go like that in the song...but that seems to be the theme of my life right now.  I was to the gym this morning where I was presented with an exercise program that seems rather straight forward and doable.  I'm not going to remember all the exercises though.  I hope they do attach them to the page when I'm in next...as they said they would.

I got checking "The Serotonin Power Diet" book again and discovered I am doing the diet wrong.  I've been eating carbohydrate at lunch time when I shouldn't be.  Plus, I am supposed to be sick of carbs by this point in the diet.  And I'm supposed to drop my carb snack at night.  I am delighted!  When I drop those two carb servings I should be down to four servings of carbs a day.  That should work just fine for me.

I've been busy knitting here.  I am re-knitting the sleeves to the baby sweater.  It's more like a toddler's sweater now!  I am blocking the new sleeves and then will sew the whole thing together. 

I started lace knitting a wimple, but pulled it all out in frustration today.  It was too large and I had dropped too many stitches and couldn't see where.  I'll start again...

I am plotting the start of another child's sweater.  A wool pullover of burgundy Atlantic by Briggs & Little. 

I don't know what I'm going to do with all this knitting.  I suppose I'll end up giving it away or selling it.  We'll see.

I tried to simplify my life a bit today by going from two library cards to one.  I had one for our homeschool when we homeschooled.  Now the girls have left home I think I can safely give this card up.  Alas, Paul had taken some stuff out on it and accrued some fines.  I didn't have cash on me to pay the fines when I was at the library, so I left the card as is.  Paul can pay the fines.  I'll slowly rotate this card out of use and then cancel it.

I've been eating weird meals lately...trying to use up food before we go on a road trip soon.  Today was Swiss chard and spinach inside a whole wheat pita.  Kind of interesting.  Actually quite good because the Swiss chard had been cooked in butter and olive oil, with garlic and lemon.  It could have done without the lemon though!

I made some cool Blueberry Lemon Muffins not long ago...sorry, no photos...

Blueberry Lemon Muffins
(makes 12)

Mix wet.  Mix dry.  Put wet into dry.  Add blueberries and bake in 350 F oven for 20 minutes.

My latest variation is to make Blueberry Coconut Muffins.  I used apple juice concentrate and milk to make 1 c. of liquid...and I tossed in about 1/4 c. coconut instead of the lemon rind.  I also made them half whole wheat pastry flour and half white flour.  They are absolutely delish!

I'm slowly plugging away at refinishing a small plywood dresser built by Carl's grandfather.  We bought it off Carl when he and Lisa moved.  I've stripped quite a few layers of paint off it.  Now to patch it, sand it, and paint it.

For those of you wondering...I haven't forgot the Sewing Room Organization Challenge...  I just keep forgetting to bring the magnifying glass upstairs to check the sizes of the used needles...which are currently sitting in a pile on my sewing machine extension table! 

I have no idea what week I'm in.  I think I started the end of April.  I started at 187 lbs. and lost at a rate of 1-2 pounds a week right through until I hit 176 lbs.  There I stalled for a month.  Then I started the Serotonin Power Diet. 

I wish I could relate screaming success on this diet.  Alas I cannot. 

On the pro side: 

• It gives me more energy,
• it encourages me to eat smaller meals,
• it encourages me to eat more frequently,
• it encourages 30-60 minutes of exercise a day,
• it encourages a good breakfast and lunch and a lighter supper...which I feel better for.

On the con side:

• I've only lost one pound so far.  At first I went down three, and then I gained two.
• I am having problems eating the amount of carbohydrates they want me to.  I'm sick of carbs!

Today I shift into the second phase of the diet.  I'm not sure I'm ready for it, but we'll see.

In an effort to deal with the exercise issue I signed up at the local physiotherapists for a fitness assessment.  I had the assessment Monday.  From that they will draw up a workout routine for me.  Then I will buy a gym pass from them to make sure I'm doing the exercises as they want me to.  We'll see how it goes.

I've been able to fit in 7500 to 10,000 steps, or more, every day.  With the advent of swimming lessons and the gym I have slowed down on that.  It took a full day and a half to recover from the swimming lessons.  That's an awful lot of exercise for me.  I was totally exhausted!

As I said, I have taken up swimming lessons.  I almost drowned myself in the kiddie pool last week.  We'll see what this week holds.  I can do all the movements I need separately, but when I try and put them together I panic and can't seem to do it.  I have 8 more weeks to figure it out.

Swimming lessons were part of my preparation for some of the things on my Twenty Wishes list that I wanted to do.  A lot of those items had to do with water and I just felt it was important that I feel comfortable in the water before I do them.  The Twenty Wishes list idea came from a Debbie Macomber book "Twenty Wishes", in which she has characters draw up their lists and goes through the story showing how they all make their wishes come true. 

To recap, here's my list...


I first drew it up in the fall of 2007.  I've already managed a lot of these, and crossed others off or modified them...as the situation warrants.  I consider this kind of list necessary for my mental health.  It keeps me focused on today and tomorrow, and doesn't let me wallow in the past.  As you can see, a number of them do have to do with water.  Which is interesting, as I panic around water.  In fact, this list has a lot of fears on it that I feel I need to face. 

Also working into this weight loss issue has been the issue of my illness and the medication I'm on.  The medication caused a 50 lb. weight gain in me.  My doctor has suggested a new drug that is eight times the cost of my current one!  I am very reluctant to try it until a suitable time has gone by and it's been properly tested. I am tired of fighting with doctors about what side effects their drugs cause and tired of being used as a guinea pig.  The new drug supposedly does not cause as much weight gain in people.  However it is a broader spectrum drug and has broader spectrum side effects...some of which I do not want!  It's been reported that only 81% of the people taking the drug suffer from side effects!

So that's my weight loss progress so far...I sit at 175.8 lbs. as of this morning.  I am beginning to wonder if I'll ever get any lower.  But I'm willing to give the Serotonin Power Diet another couple of weeks to kick in.