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When people express how they'd like to live to <ripe old age>, it occurs to me how much they must enjoy life! I eat healthy, exercise a lot, etc. but have struggled with mental (and physical) issues my whole life. Thoughts like "I really hope I make it to 80" do not pass through my head...

I assume you mean that Winterkorn very well may have said, "Tell me about anything dishonest or improper you see," to all his executives. "Don't fear for any reason that I will retribute. Honesty comes first." And yet for various reasons the middle managers could not overcome their fear of...

Upon resigning, the C.E.O., Winterkorn, said that he was in no way aware of the cheating device. This is probably true. However, if he 10 years ago when he started had said "If there is ever the slightest bolt not on the up and up, I want to know. It doesn't matter what will happen to our...

Thanks everyone. It sounds like I should not worry about it until it comes.

Is it common for sites of bone breakage to ache later in life? (even if properly set and healed)

Thanks for the caution and suggestions. I'll definitely consider the oral appliance as well as give the whole idea another round of due diligence (not my first).

The day before my evaluative sleep study I wrote in my journal "Hope i dont have alpha intrusion." Alpha intrusion is my way of describing unknown-cause disrupted sleep - some people don't respond to cpap and I felt confident that as long as I was one of the responders, I'd be happy living with...

It's been almost three weeks since starting CPAP. I'm feeling slightly better, but I've been trying everything I can think of: diet, meditation, books on insomnia, melatonin, and more. The most recent idea is that back pain may be disrupting my sleep. I never paid attention to it before, but I...

Starting to wonder if I may be like Tyro. After several days on CPAP, I feel worse, though I don't blame the machine. I think rather that my airway constriction issues were not the whole story. As before getting the machine, I wake up many times during the night. The book Sound Sleep, Sound...

You don't sound very interested in solving the problem. I guess you tried for 5 years and were frustrated. Yep, you're fortunate. I bet you also had few spontaneous arousals.

You both deserve better results than your dedication has produced. grumpy, have you tried BiPAP? Tyro - doesn't the fact that you are still tired in the daytime, mean that there is something disrupting your sleep besides lack of oxygen?

Sounds like you may be one of the lucky ones that acclimate quickly. Did you wake up many times during your titration night?

Me too. It was truly a different state of being. I also can't wait to get it. To pass the time I've been practicing mental rehearsal of going to sleep blissfully with the thing attached to my face.

This sleep stuff is fascinating. Quote from a doctor who uses the same sleep therapy on himself (bilevel PAP) that he prescribes to patients: "P.S. Sorry for the long post; but it's not my fault, it's the bilevel. After 7 near perfect hours of sleep quality last night, I had to do something...

I take a 1-lb. bag of frozen vegetables ($1.50 a bag) to work each morning and put it on a desk that is warm from cables running underneath it. By lunchtime it's thawed enough to eat. Pluses: -The most convenient ever. Zero preparation time. -Never worry about fresh-bought vegetables...

More on my experiences trying to find a system for knowing when to stop eating.. I think there's a difference between feeling stuffed in a physical sense - when one groans and it hurts to move - and being satisfied in a "chemical" sense. By chemical, I mean the sense that you have been talking...

You sure it wasn't yogurt? This recent newsmaker talked about the long-term weight suppressing effects of yogurt (-0.82 lb./year), nuts (-0.57 lb./year), and fruit (-0.49 lb./year). Changes in Specific Dietary Factors May Have Big Impact on Long-Term Weight Gain - June 22, 2011 -2011 Releases...

I tracked how full I felt and how much I enjoyed the last few bites of what I ate, at meals, for a few days. The point was to see how correlated these two subjective measures of fullness were. The results pretty much satisfied my hopes, that they correlate strongly. This means I can simply...

That's the hardest time for me too. I'm tired and my willpower is low, and I worry about not being able to fall asleep because I'm hungry. In the morning I'm so energized that I would rather work than eat breakfast, and when I do eat breakfast (usually because I've recently read a report that...

My stomach doesn't growl when I'm hungry. Maybe after an hour of being so hungry that I can't concentrate on much else. If you've kept weight off for 12 years your words carry credit, but I am surprised to hear that you attribute it just to this simple change. I wonder if you are exerting...

MasterBlaster, your response sounds facetious yet I feel you are really trying to tell me something here. I assume everyone wants more or less to do what's best for their health, because it leads to happiness. I will try that in the future at some point. Do you have any personal data (like...

It sounds like you've tried this before and the reality of family and life schedules made it a better theory than practice. What eating system have you settled upon now? True. That is the problem. I want to eat when I'm sure I'm truly hungry, and when I get to the point where I'm starving, I...

Some of you may have heard of and tried this idea before. To control weight, instead of counting calories, one simply tries to eat only when hungry and stop when full. I'm having trouble telling if I'm really hungry or just bored. I try placing my hand on my stomach, closing my eyes, and...

Someone once dissuaded me from analyzing and thinking about things even if I enjoyed it, because it's not creating anything. It's true I think: the highest form of enthusiasm only seems to come during creation. That happened when I tried to force myself do to a particular hobby for 60 minutes...

Sarah in SC, I can identify with your description of serial hobbyist. Have you found any good method for finding the next fascinating thing to delve into? Or do you just let it happen, and if you don't have any real motivation to investigate anything for months, you are okay with that. Positive...