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Speaking of formulas.....

After giving some people advice during the last few weeks about how it's okay to occasionally take a day off from pumping, I decided that while an occasional day might be okay for some people, for me it turns it a year. As a recovering addict, I should know already that my life has to be very regimented, because otherwise, I get carried away. So Sunday night, I started pumping formula again - 2 cans Sunday night, and 3 on Monday and last night. It's a start. The problem with taking significant time off, of course, is that now my system has to become reacclimated to the formula. I've always found it a little uncomfortable, especially since I have a tendency to pump too fast, because I like some time to be unattached. But I can't tolerate anything faster than 100ml an hour and even that's pushing it. Water I can tolerate all the way up to 500ml an hour, on the other hand. I think that I stopped pumping because I was extremely depressed about losing my job in January. Things were so bad my shrink wanted to hospitalize me. But in the last few months, I've become reenergized and in fact, have a new career. All of a sudden, I'm motivated. I recently attended a nine day (nine straight 10 hour days) of bootcamp for Web Design (Imagine covering Adobe Indesign, Acrobat, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, and Flash in 9 days!). I've gotten my first website up (http://www.so-snapped.com), I sang my first audition in 12 years for an opera company here in NYC (and made call backs!), I've acquired two of the most gorgeous cats you ever saw (Gigi and Emmie), and so I decided the time was right to start pumping. Especially when I saw that my weight had dropped below 180.