Author: paul

6. Researchers seeking compulsive shoppers

Researchers from the Department of Psychology are seeking
research subjects for a study into binge buying and compulsive
shopping.

Anyone who is suffering from compulsive shopping or experiencing
such symptoms as uncontrollable urges to shop, purchasing
much more than intended with many of the items going unused,
significant debts and family problems due to overspending, and
feelings of guilt and shame because of binge buying is eligible.

In addition, subjects not experiencing difficulties with buying,
but who are interested in supporting research in this field
are also required.

Participants will be asked to complete several questionnaires
and tasks, and treatment is also available through the University
of Melbourne Psychology Clinic. For ethical reasons, no rewards
can be offered other than the increased understanding of
compulsive shopping in Australia. Participants will, however,
be reimbursed $20 to cover any travel or other expenses.

Contact Paul McQueen or Carl Zabel in the Department of
Psychology, by telephone to 8344 5572.

This is an Ethics Committee approved study.

How much are Lindt balls worth? Uni House has started selling (fucking) Belgian chocolates. Two for $1.20. I reckon that each is about 0.5 the size of a Lindt ball.

Double figures at last! Woo-hoo! The last time I was this light (excluding the glandular fever incident of 1991) was in 1987… half a lifetime ago.

I’m now close to finishing off the fourth of my six 5kg blocks that I had/have to lose (I’ll worry about the leftover 1.3kg after the sixth block) — 19.4kg for the year. Yeah!

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How many BPs do you earn for a bout of gastro? 🙁 I’ve had a total of four points today, and am having trouble even keeping water down.

At least I might crack the double figures on Monday now :-\

PE

After three weeks of basically going nowhere (total loss of 0.7 over the last three weeks), I’m feelign as though I’m back on track. Despite the cold, I ate only 23.5 points (25 max) yesterday, and have had 4.5 so far today (1030) with no hunger pangs at all. The belt is threatening to move in another notch too. At the risk of making this sound like a project management wankfest, the forthcoming key risks I see are:

(a) TPTCTF for dessert on my birthday;
(b) chocky mud cake on Sunday for the barfday nicpic;
(c) lack of exercise due to the cold

It’s interesting that even though I feel as though the last three weeks have been going nowhere for me as far as weight loss goes, I’ve still managed three quarters of a kilogram, or, extrapolating, still losing weight at the respectable rate of a kilogram a month. Frankly, at the start of the WW adventure, if someone had offered me 1kg/month weight loss, I would have taken it. The fact that I’ve managed to be losing on average 1kg a week so far is so much the bonus (points ha ha).

Cheers,
Paul

How much is an apple and cinnamon muffin worth (probably not lo-fat?) With this cold that I’ve got, am incredibly hungry, and it seemed to be the least offensive thing available. Thoughts nayone?

PE

The wedding weekend has blown it for me this week. If I can stay within +1kg I will be doing well, I suspect.

I have a bad cold; depending on how I feel I may not show up tonight.

http://news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,9375317%255E13762,00.html

you have when the current belt hole is just a little too loose, but you know that within a few days you will be able to fit it into the next hold on the belt. Assuming it happens next week, I’llhave gone in two holes in three weeks. Yay!