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what are some very low fat things to snack on throughout the day?
and also, when watching your weight, should you pat attention to the calories from fat, or the grams of fat?
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Ummmm really you prolly don't need to worry.. I mean I really probably shouldn't be talking because I am only 93lbs. and a freshman in HS. But I do watch my weight and all I do is follow the "food Pyramid" and for low fat snacks you can go to Wal-Mart and get those 100 calorie snacks.. they are perty darn good!
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ok my dad does weed and i just know my mom does it too. and well they are always saying how much they hate people that do drugs and here they do it. well i hear that if your parents smoke and stuff well the kids are liable to start and well i smoke ciggaretts and my parents dont know about it. my point is will i start doing drugs since they do? an help will work thanks jennie (link)
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No it don't mean you will start. If you have a good head on your shoulders then you won't. Just know the effects of drugs and if you do that might scare you enough not even to expierment with drugs. Let me let you in on a little background from my life. In 1996 when I was just 5 years old my parents divorced. This was April 1st. So yes, April Fool's day is a bad day of the month. Then I moved from place to place (but still same little town that no one has heard of)
Well my mom won custody over me and my dad was truck driver. I never got to see him and it really killed me not having a dad around. Then my dad got involved with some lately in around 1997 and we lived in this BIG house about 30 miles from where my mom lived. My dad and his girlfriend around 1999 got hooked on Cocain. Unfortunatly no one knew. Well My Dad had two kids. Me and my little brother who is only a year and 1/2 younger than me. And his girlfriend had two daughters on my age and the other about 5 years older. Well me and the girl that was my age were really close. And one day we were (this was around 2001) getting in the tack room to get brushes for our horses and we saw this stuff in the floor.. I don't know if you know what 'Coke' looks like but it is this white powdery substance that smells HORRIBLE! Well my dad was REALLY REALLY MEAN cuz of the stuff but it never got so bad he beat us but if we didn't tell my mother than it might have. Mom came and got me, brother,and my friend/sister (in a way) and we went to my mom's. This was July 4th 2001. And although I was only 11 I was exposed to drugs. I might not have known what it was but I did learn and I never got hooked on it or anything and so the saying "if your parents smoke and stuff well the kids are liable to start" isn't really true. Anyways.. after that my dad and his "girlfriend" broke up and my dad quit driving the truck.. and was put in some rehab center, then moved in with his mom so he wouldn't start agian.. knowing my dad was a druggy really really ruined my life. So now my dad is better and is driving the truck for a cop so he won't start again.. I am just fine with a good head on my shoulders and if you ever need to talk about anything I am here to help. I hope this gave you hope on NOT having a chance to have a chance to try or get addicted to weed. The smoking thing. You prolly know its bad for you and all that crap so I will not lecture you on that but smoking may lead on to expiermenting with other substances so just be careful!
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Hi, I'm 14/f living in California if that helps.
Anyway, my parents are getting a divorce and it's been very difficult- my dad is a chronic liar (diagnosed by 3 doctors but refuses treatment). While married to my mom he had a girlfriend for 3 years. She got pregnant and had a baby boy and he mostly lived with his girlfriend and the baby for 1 year, then my mom finally decided to divorce him. The current arrangement we have is that my 12-year-old brother and I live at my mom's and see my dad every other sunday at 11:00. The problem is that my dad wants half of our house (he wants us to sell it even though he promised in march he would let us keep the house) and that he insists he and my mom have been seperated since 1998 when they have only been seperated since march 2004 (if he tells the truth he will have to pay more money). My mom has a great lawyer who's working very hard, but the court is kind of against us- my dad's friend Al is the bailiff.
Al is a nice guy, though my dad is not, and he and my dad used to be friends because they were both police officers in Oakland. One day as they were making an arrest there was a fire (no one is sure quite how). Al was trapped and my dad saved his life, but Al got some brain damage (I'm not sure how severe it is). Now Al owes my dad big-time so the court is biased against us, basically. Is there anything my mom can do about:
(A) The date of seperation (if needed my brother and I can attest to when they seperated)
(B) Him forcing her to sell the ohuse (not yet but he will and we will have to move far away, it costs a lot to live where we do)
(C) the court being biased?
If anyone knows any website or can help me, that would be great. Thanks in advance. (link)
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I am no lawyer but I do understand what you are going through. My parents divorced in 1996. Although my Dad never cheated on my mom while they were married he did while they dated and he a son. Which we did not know what his till like 2000. It was weird. That is just a little information about my situation but now I am going to help you (or try). The best thing for the date of separation is to attest you and your brother both. Although your dad can get in a lot of trouble if he is lying in court. Especially if he has "put his hand on the Bible" and can be fined a whole lot.. in case he is not aware of that. If your mother is paying for the house and with out his help then he has no say over whether or not to sell it because he is not the owner of it, and leagally since he has been living some wheres else for a year it is no longer his house UNLESS it is partly under his name. I think (if it is) that you can somehow change the name in which the house is under. but if he wants to sell it it might be hard since he may have to sign something to sign it over too... He has a home somewheres else so really there is no point in why he wants the house to be sold.
Yes, I believe the court is being biased. I mean if the baliff is friends with your dad and "Owe's him big time" then he may do something to help your father win the court hearing. If I were you and your family I would talk to your lawyer and see if yall could get another baliff on duty for this hearing.
I hope this helped!
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Like, what are the signs of being bipolar? on one of my pervious questions alot of people mention that i might be bipolar, so i was just wondering.
♥Paige (link)
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What Are the Symptoms of Bipolar Disorder?
Bipolar disorder causes dramatic mood swings—from overly "high" and/or irritable to sad and hopeless, and then back again, often with periods of normal mood in between. Severe changes in energy and behavior go along with these changes in mood. The periods of highs and lows are called episodes of mania and depression.
Signs and symptoms of mania (or a manic episode) include:
Increased energy, activity, and restlessness
Excessively "high," overly good, euphoric mood
Extreme irritability
Racing thoughts and talking very fast, jumping from one idea to another
Distractibility, can't concentrate well
Little sleep needed
Unrealistic beliefs in one's abilities and powers
Poor judgment
Spending sprees
A lasting period of behavior that is different from usual
Increased sexual drive
Abuse of drugs, particularly cocaine, alcohol, and sleeping medications
Provocative, intrusive, or aggressive behavior
Denial that anything is wrong
A manic episode is diagnosed if elevated mood occurs with three or more of the other symptoms most of the day, nearly every day, for 1 week or longer. If the mood is irritable, four additional symptoms must be present.
Signs and symptoms of depression (or a depressive episode) include:
Lasting sad, anxious, or empty mood
Feelings of hopelessness or pessimism
Feelings of guilt, worthlessness, or helplessness
Loss of interest or pleasure in activities once enjoyed, including sex
Decreased energy, a feeling of fatigue or of being "slowed down"
Difficulty concentrating, remembering, making decisions
Restlessness or irritability
Sleeping too much, or can't sleep
Change in appetite and/or unintended weight loss or gain
Chronic pain or other persistent bodily symptoms that are not caused by physical illness or injury
Thoughts of death or suicide, or suicide attempts
A depressive episode is diagnosed if five or more of these symptoms last most of the day, nearly every day, for a period of 2 weeks or longer.
A mild to moderate level of mania is called hypomania. Hypomania may feel good to the person who experiences it and may even be associated with good functioning and enhanced productivity. Thus even when family and friends learn to recognize the mood swings as possible bipolar disorder, the person may deny that anything is wrong. Without proper treatment, however, hypomania can become severe mania in some people or can switch into depression.
Sometimes, severe episodes of mania or depression include symptoms of psychosis (or psychotic symptoms). Common psychotic symptoms are hallucinations (hearing, seeing, or otherwise sensing the presence of things not actually there) and delusions (false, strongly held beliefs not influenced by logical reasoning or explained by a person's usual cultural concepts). Psychotic symptoms in bipolar disorder tend to reflect the extreme mood state at the time. For example, delusions of grandiosity, such as believing one is the President or has special powers or wealth, may occur during mania; delusions of guilt or worthlessness, such as believing that one is ruined and penniless or has committed some terrible crime, may appear during depression. People with bipolar disorder who have these symptoms are sometimes incorrectly diagnosed as having schizophrenia, another severe mental illness.
It may be helpful to think of the various mood states in bipolar disorder as a spectrum or continuous range. At one end is severe depression, above which is moderate depression and then mild low mood, which many people call "the blues" when it is short-lived but is termed "dysthymia" when it is chronic. Then there is normal or balanced mood, above which comes hypomania (mild to moderate mania), and then severe mania.
*I hope this helps. This is what I found while looking up on BiPolar disorder.*
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