I quit Phentermine and gave up in March 2008 when we started having financial difficulities and decided to sell our house.  It's gone all downhill from there because of a stupid decision on my part.

 

Through the stress of selling our house, our oldest daughter moving out, our oldest son shipped out from home in March for the Air Force, difficulties with our business due to the economy and a 3 month ordeal with the home we leased after we moved, I just let myself go. 

 

I stopped caring and putting myself first, which led to binge eating and I gained so much weight back I didn't have any clothes left in my closet I could wear.

 

On top of all this stress, our children had to move schools and start a new school.  My stress just began then, we thought we had a great school and teacher but it turned out to be the worst choice we made. 

 

This only led to more stress and problems in our family.  One afternoon when I went to pick up our children our youngest son's teacher said he had a difficult day.  Now for most people and our other children that might mean alot of different things, but our youngest son is Autistic, so I braced myself.

 

I still remember the teacher and aide telling me about the ordeal.  I can still feel the shock, disbelief, numbness and rage I felt inside to hurt someone.  While at recess, a child in my son's special needs class hit another child and caused a huge commotion which scared my son.

 

He has no behavioral problems that most Autistic children do and for the most part is an easy going child, except he has very sensitive ears.  He ran off of the playground across the school and hid in the media center and no one knew where he was for awhile.  The media specialist found him outside in the grass reading an Authur book and luckily knew something about Autism and called the office.

 

The worst thing about this situation is the principal told the staff if they told me about him running away and being lost, she would fire them!  Imagine my shock when the aide told me this because the teacher wasn't allowed to say anything.

 

I went to talk to the principal and get her side of the story after talking to the other teachers/staff involved.  The principal had the gall to tell me our son "decided" to run off the playground and visit the media center and the media specialist "intercepted" him outside. 

 

What a crock of B.S. I thanked her, went home called the district school board and they blamed the teacher and me for the situation.  The teacher is trained professional and was supposed to hold 9 Autistic children and keep the child who was out of control calm all at the same time! wow I asked when she grew 10 more arms  to do all this?

 

I was blamed because I had homeschooled him and he ran off because I never disciplined him rotflmfao - he was the best behaved child in the class and on 3rd & 4th grade level academics instead of 2nd grade level.

 

We would get reports home daily that he was running from the class, teacher & behavioral specialist even at PE & Recess, so it was something in the class or the teacher.

 

After an incident with this out of control student hitting me and messing my kidney up, I took my son out of the school and called the sheriff's department to file a complaint. 

 

We switched schools and my son is in another special needs class and has not tried to even leave the classroom or teacher once since moving schools.

 

To top things off, my mother in law, who I love dearly, has been having major health issues and may have gallbladder cancer.  She is having surgery Dec 9th to have it removed and for them to tell what the tumor is the doctors found and if it is in deed cancer as they suspect, what stage it is.

 

I decided to try Phentermine again December 1, 2008 and have lost 5 lbs so far.  This doctor put me on 1000 - 1100 calories with portion control and a well balanced diet along with exercise being the key. 

 

They prescribed a fiber capsule twice daily and Vitamin B shots and gave me a book from www.calorieking.com  it says Protein, Fat & carbs are important but calories are the KING LOL which is true.

 

Portion control, water and exercise that's the key.  Who knows what the new year of 2009 will bring?  I am feeling better because I took control again of my life and I am getting my stress under control.