You sure look good!
I'm also bipolar, agoraphobic and suffer PTSD from "acute, early-onset, chronic physical, mental and sexual abuse." That's what the shrink wrote in the chart.
I've taken dozens of meds over the years. Now, I just take Welbutrin, but I'm not sure it makes a difference. I take sedatives as needed for panic, and can't fall asleep without OTC or Rx sleeping pills. I've stayed awake for as long as 3 days at a time. I usualy have 3+ nightmares a night, in color and stereo, and I usually remember them.
I had Graves' Disease in 1985 and normal life ended. My eyes looked like Marty Feldman's. One still protudes more than the other. After that I became hypothyroid and take replacement hormone every day.
I ballooned up once my thyroid was irradiated. Life was pretty tragic after that with higher mania and darker depression. I'm not going to tell the number of suicide attempts/gestures I made.
I weighed about 265 when I reported to a surgeon for RYGB. I weigh between 150 and 160 now.
If I only ate once a day, I'd die from nutrient deficiency. Anything i can do to stay healthy, I do. Eating food and drinking water is the most essential need to meet or die.
Since I'm 70 and grew up on a farm, my knowledge of food is vast. My knowledge of nutrition, not so much. I'm learning all the time.
One thing I know: it's not to be trifled with. I'm deeply immersed in staying healthy. I have none of the diseases that killed my mom and dad and 17 pair of aunts and uncles, or my 70 first cousins, or my little brother Tim, or my big sister Kathy, both dead from diabetes and CHF.
So knowing about what I'm eating and relying on this group for support is the reason I'm alive and so healthy at 70. I hope I give back the gifts I receive.