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I am not as impressed with the magic chair as I was last night. Despite it's overstuffed glory, it's not terribly comfortable. It's wide but shallow. It's not all that I had hoped for so I'll have keep meditating on the purple velvet wonderfullness of Carl's living room. Until then, I'm cleaning the new chair thoroughly. The whole house smells like Woolite.

Other than that, I'm really struggling with WW this week. I went over 8 points today and I was totally off program this weekend. I'm afraid to go to my weigh-in on Tuesday but at the same time, I'm afraid not to. I need some sort of idea of where I am so that I can plan accordingly. I tried weighing in on my scale tonight, but according to it, I've gained ten pounds over the last week (which for the record is 35,000 extra calories consumed---I know that I wasn't THAT bad). Don't think that this doesn't scare the holy hell out of me. As always, I don't think that I can stomach a gain, but I'm pretty sure that I didn't lose. Argh. The program still feels very temporary to me and I'm not sure that I'm totally committed. I feel as though a month or two of success, however limited, would encourage me to get really involved in the program.

Anyways, I'm a little nervous about tomorrow. Eeek. Wish me luck.

PLEASE TAKE A MOMENT TO READ

This showed-up in one of my public health mailings the other day. It not really surprising, but it's still appalling... and, alas, it is true. See the TruthOrFiction.com under the article below:  
 
President Bush has appointed Dr. W. David Hager to the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) Reproductive Health Drugs Advisory Committee. This position does not require Congressional approval. Bush had previously announced plans to appoint him as head of the committee.
The FDA's Reproductive Health Drugs Advisory Committee makes crucial
decisions on matters relating to drugs used in the practice of
obstetrics, gynecology and related specialties, including hormone
therapy, contraception, treatment for infertility, and medical
alternatives to surgical procedures for sterilization and pregnancy
termination.
Dr. Hager's views of reproductive health care are far outside the
mainstream for reproductive technology.  Dr. Hager is a practicing
OB/GYN who describes himself as "pro-life" and refuses to prescribe
contraceptives to unmarried women. Hager is the author of "As Jesus
Cared for Women: Restoring Women, Then and Now."  The book blends
biblical accounts of Christ healing women with case studies from
Hager's practice.
In the book Dr. Hager wrote with his wife, entitled "Stress and the
Woman's Body," he suggests that women who suffer from premenstrual
syndrome should seek help from reading the bible and praying. As an
editor and contributing author of "The Reproduction Revolution: A
Christian Appraisal of Sexuality Reproductive Technologies and the
Family," Dr. Hager appears to have endorsed the medically inaccurate
assertion that the common birth control pill is an abortifacient.
Hager's mission is religiously motivated. He has an ardent interest
in revoking approval for mifepristone (formerly known as RU-486) as a
safe and early form o f medical abortion. Hagar recently assisted the
Christian Medical Association in a "citizen's petition" which calls
upon the FDA to revoke its approval of mifepristone in the name of
women's health.
Hager's desire to overturn mifepristone's approval on religious
grounds rather than scientific merit would halt the development of
mifepristone as a treatment for numerous medical conditions
disproportionately affecting women, including breast cancer, uterine
cancer, uterine fibroid tumors, psychotic depression, bipolar
depression and Cushing's syndrome.
Women rely on the FDA to ensure their access to safe and effective
drugs for reproductive health care including products that prevent
pregnancy. For some women, such as those with certain types of
diabetes and those undergoing treatment for cancer, pregnancy can be
a life-threatening condition. We are concerned that Dr. Hager's
strong religious beliefs may color his assessment of technologies
that are necessary to protect women's lives or to preserve and
promote women's health.
Hager's track record of using religious beliefs to guide his medical
decision-making makes him a dangerous and inappropriate candidate to
serve on this committee. Critical drug public policy and
research must not be held hostage by antiabortion politics. Members
of this important panel should be appointed on the basis of science
and medicine, rather than politics and religion. American women
deserve no less.
What can you do?
1. E-mail President Bush at president@whitehouse.gov and give him a piece of your mind.
2. Harrass your knee-jerk liberal friends by forwarding this e-mail.
 
From TruthOrFiction.com:
 
Dr. David Hager Selected for the FDA's Reproductive Health Drugs Advisory Committee-Truth!