Thank you Dr. Garcia,
I appreciate all of your recommendations.

First off, I agree that giving up or cutting back my alcohol would certainly help with my weight loss but if it was as easy as that for me I wouldn't have found this web site.

I'm actually not that overweight, just heavier than I'd like to be. I've been following the My Way Out Program with respect to all of the vitamins, some of the hypnosis (still getting throught it) but not yet the Topamax. The reason I haven't tried the Topamax is that the book/program highly recommend that you consult a physician and so far my regular doctor was hesitat to prescribe it (at least when I asked her a few months ago). So I was going to try it on my own but concerned with combining it with Apidex.

I guess the bottom line is that I'd like to add Topamax to my program and am happy to drop the Apidex but am hesitant to do that without a doctor's direct guidance. Yet, I'm not sure where to find a doctor that supports this program...so do I just do it on my own?

I have had some success so far with MWO and I have had some success with my weight loss program. My struggle/concern/dilemma is how to combine or not combine the two in a safe manner.

I completely agree with your recommendations regarding exercise. I guess this could be considered an excuse but I'm a mother of two young children, 5&7, working a highly stressful full time job. I do not dislike exercise, in fact, I enjoy it. But time is a endless problem at this point in my life.

And finally, I'm sure that stress does not help in either of my struggles, alcohol or weight loss...however, I'm not quite sure how to eliminate stress from my life and these two factors(alcohol and weight) just add back the stres. What a vicious circle.

I'm probably overstepping my boundaries of your generous advise so feel free to ignore my babbling.


Thanks,
KT