Comments on: Quick Update http://TheBroccoliHut.com/quick-update/ Thu, 24 May 2012 00:30:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: ChickPea http://TheBroccoliHut.com/quick-update/comment-page-1/#comment-241 ChickPea Mon, 09 Jun 2008 02:03:00 +0000 http://broccolihut.wordpress.com/2008/04/19/quick-update/#comment-241 Amy: It IS nice to know that someone else in my same boat. And no, it was not too much information:) <br/>I think we're both in a unique situation--we want to do what would be a healthy thing for most people, but in our condition, it might not be the best idea. Like you, I think eating organic yogurt and cottage cheese is the best thing for my body right now. Please keep in touch! Amy: It IS nice to know that someone else in my same boat. And no, it was not too much information:)
I think we’re both in a unique situation–we want to do what would be a healthy thing for most people, but in our condition, it might not be the best idea. Like you, I think eating organic yogurt and cottage cheese is the best thing for my body right now. Please keep in touch!

]]> By: Amy http://TheBroccoliHut.com/quick-update/comment-page-1/#comment-239 Amy Thu, 05 Jun 2008 12:20:00 +0000 http://broccolihut.wordpress.com/2008/04/19/quick-update/#comment-239 hi! i just recently found your blog (i love reading about vegan/vegetarian cooking adventures - i've gotten some great ideas!). <br/><br/>i was so excited to read some of your entries, because i felt like i could completely relate. i am also a vegetarian/almost vegan. i was underweight, stressed, overexercising, and not eating enough a few years ago, and i'm still dealing with the amenorrhea/irregular cycles that came with it. i've also just always been small-boned, and i am careful to be sure that i'm maintaining and/or gaining weight - sorry if that's too much information :)<br/><br/>my family was also concerned that i was being too restrictive in my food choices, so i backed away from being a 100% "strict" vegan, and i feel like it is the best place for me to be in right now. i was really happy to read about someone else in the same boat! hi! i just recently found your blog (i love reading about vegan/vegetarian cooking adventures – i’ve gotten some great ideas!).

i was so excited to read some of your entries, because i felt like i could completely relate. i am also a vegetarian/almost vegan. i was underweight, stressed, overexercising, and not eating enough a few years ago, and i’m still dealing with the amenorrhea/irregular cycles that came with it. i’ve also just always been small-boned, and i am careful to be sure that i’m maintaining and/or gaining weight – sorry if that’s too much information :)

my family was also concerned that i was being too restrictive in my food choices, so i backed away from being a 100% “strict” vegan, and i feel like it is the best place for me to be in right now. i was really happy to read about someone else in the same boat!

]]> By: Amy http://TheBroccoliHut.com/quick-update/comment-page-1/#comment-240 Amy Thu, 05 Jun 2008 12:20:00 +0000 http://broccolihut.wordpress.com/2008/04/19/quick-update/#comment-240 hi! i just recently found your blog (i love reading about vegan/vegetarian cooking adventures - i've gotten some great ideas!). <br/><br/>i was so excited to read some of your entries, because i felt like i could completely relate. i am also a vegetarian/almost vegan. i was underweight, stressed, overexercising, and not eating enough a few years ago, and i'm still dealing with the amenorrhea/irregular cycles that came with it. i've also just always been small-boned, and i am careful to be sure that i'm maintaining and/or gaining weight - sorry if that's too much information :)<br/><br/>my family was also concerned that i was being too restrictive in my food choices, so i backed away from being a 100% "strict" vegan, and i feel like it is the best place for me to be in right now. i was really happy to read about someone else in the same boat! hi! i just recently found your blog (i love reading about vegan/vegetarian cooking adventures – i’ve gotten some great ideas!).

i was so excited to read some of your entries, because i felt like i could completely relate. i am also a vegetarian/almost vegan. i was underweight, stressed, overexercising, and not eating enough a few years ago, and i’m still dealing with the amenorrhea/irregular cycles that came with it. i’ve also just always been small-boned, and i am careful to be sure that i’m maintaining and/or gaining weight – sorry if that’s too much information :)

my family was also concerned that i was being too restrictive in my food choices, so i backed away from being a 100% “strict” vegan, and i feel like it is the best place for me to be in right now. i was really happy to read about someone else in the same boat!

]]> By: Anonymous http://TheBroccoliHut.com/quick-update/comment-page-1/#comment-238 Anonymous Thu, 24 Apr 2008 22:44:00 +0000 http://broccolihut.wordpress.com/2008/04/19/quick-update/#comment-238 Hey there I have amenorrhea too and have just been diagnosed with osteoporosis, I am absolutely devestated. I was just wondering how long have you had amenorrhea? Hey there I have amenorrhea too and have just been diagnosed with osteoporosis, I am absolutely devestated. I was just wondering how long have you had amenorrhea?

]]> By: ChickPea http://TheBroccoliHut.com/quick-update/comment-page-1/#comment-237 ChickPea Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:58:00 +0000 http://broccolihut.wordpress.com/2008/04/19/quick-update/#comment-237 Erika: I am so glad you stumbled upon my blog--it's nice to find people who can relate to your situation. After talking to my mom again yesterday, she seemed to be more open to a "gradual transition." I think she is afraid that she will come to pick me up from school in a few weeks and find me emaciated. My email is cwy@duke.edu if you want to talk some more!<br/>Carla: I have seen a gynecologist, and she gave me a prescription for birth control. I took it for a month but ultimately decided that it was giving me a false sense of security. It's frustrating when nobody can really explain why your periods are absent.<br/>Anonymous: Yes, when I had an ED doctor, she seemed reluctant to put me on the Pill, saying that it really doesn't fix the problem at hand. I had hoped that taking a month's prescription would somehow wake up my system into normal functioning, but it didn't seem to work that way. Erika: I am so glad you stumbled upon my blog–it’s nice to find people who can relate to your situation. After talking to my mom again yesterday, she seemed to be more open to a “gradual transition.” I think she is afraid that she will come to pick me up from school in a few weeks and find me emaciated. My email is cwy@duke.edu if you want to talk some more!
Carla: I have seen a gynecologist, and she gave me a prescription for birth control. I took it for a month but ultimately decided that it was giving me a false sense of security. It’s frustrating when nobody can really explain why your periods are absent.
Anonymous: Yes, when I had an ED doctor, she seemed reluctant to put me on the Pill, saying that it really doesn’t fix the problem at hand. I had hoped that taking a month’s prescription would somehow wake up my system into normal functioning, but it didn’t seem to work that way.

]]> By: Anonymous http://TheBroccoliHut.com/quick-update/comment-page-1/#comment-236 Anonymous Mon, 21 Apr 2008 04:23:00 +0000 http://broccolihut.wordpress.com/2008/04/19/quick-update/#comment-236 Carla--<br/>Actually, doctors who are knowledgeable about EDs are now recommending that adolescents with EDs do NOT go on the pill, as the birth control pill is not helpful in giving one a real period and can actually be harmful (especially since girls feel like their amennorrhea is cured when they get a "period" from the pill). The pill does NOT give a real period that protects one's bones; rather, it gives a placebo period, which is just an absence of the heightened estrogen hormones that causes bleeding the week you take the placebo pill. <br/><br/>http://eatingwithyouranorexic.blogspot.com/2007/10/birth-control-pills-in-anorexia.html Carla–
Actually, doctors who are knowledgeable about EDs are now recommending that adolescents with EDs do NOT go on the pill, as the birth control pill is not helpful in giving one a real period and can actually be harmful (especially since girls feel like their amennorrhea is cured when they get a “period” from the pill). The pill does NOT give a real period that protects one’s bones; rather, it gives a placebo period, which is just an absence of the heightened estrogen hormones that causes bleeding the week you take the placebo pill.

http://eatingwithyouranorexic.blogspot.com/2007/10/birth-control-pills-in-anorexia.html

]]> By: Carla S. http://TheBroccoliHut.com/quick-update/comment-page-1/#comment-235 Carla S. Mon, 21 Apr 2008 03:27:00 +0000 http://broccolihut.wordpress.com/2008/04/19/quick-update/#comment-235 I'm surprised my head didn't come off seeing as how, when I was reading abour your decision, I totally identified. I've wanted to make the transition into vegeterianism but am concerned because of an ED past. <br/><br/>You have no idea how much I support and admire the way you've put your desire to become vegan on hold in order to focus on your overall health. <br/><br/>Thank you for trusting us, your readers, and I hope you succesfully continue your recovery!<br/><br/>p.s. in regards to the amenorrhea (I also had/have it...its weird), have you contacted a gynecologist? although i don't like taking pills, they prescribed some pills that regularized my hormones. I’m surprised my head didn’t come off seeing as how, when I was reading abour your decision, I totally identified. I’ve wanted to make the transition into vegeterianism but am concerned because of an ED past.

You have no idea how much I support and admire the way you’ve put your desire to become vegan on hold in order to focus on your overall health.

Thank you for trusting us, your readers, and I hope you succesfully continue your recovery!

p.s. in regards to the amenorrhea (I also had/have it…its weird), have you contacted a gynecologist? although i don’t like taking pills, they prescribed some pills that regularized my hormones.

]]> By: Erika http://TheBroccoliHut.com/quick-update/comment-page-1/#comment-234 Erika Mon, 21 Apr 2008 03:19:00 +0000 http://broccolihut.wordpress.com/2008/04/19/quick-update/#comment-234 Hi Chickpea! I just came across your blog this evening and wanted to send you a little message. I too am a recovering anorexic still suffering from amenorrhea (which is not gross, by the way) and I think it's admirable that you've been so open about that since for most of us, it is such a private disease. I also understand your mother's weariness about your going vegan. Mine responded the same way. She saw it as a way of reverting back to my disorder which probably had a lot to do with my intentions at that time. You're right that we should focus on getting our bodies back to a state where they can a handle it once we do inherit that lifestyle. <br/>If you'd ever like to talk sometime, please e-mail: elevans81@gmail.com<br/>Hope to hear from you! Hi Chickpea! I just came across your blog this evening and wanted to send you a little message. I too am a recovering anorexic still suffering from amenorrhea (which is not gross, by the way) and I think it’s admirable that you’ve been so open about that since for most of us, it is such a private disease. I also understand your mother’s weariness about your going vegan. Mine responded the same way. She saw it as a way of reverting back to my disorder which probably had a lot to do with my intentions at that time. You’re right that we should focus on getting our bodies back to a state where they can a handle it once we do inherit that lifestyle.
If you’d ever like to talk sometime, please e-mail: elevans81@gmail.com
Hope to hear from you!

]]> By: ChickPea http://TheBroccoliHut.com/quick-update/comment-page-1/#comment-233 ChickPea Mon, 21 Apr 2008 00:41:00 +0000 http://broccolihut.wordpress.com/2008/04/19/quick-update/#comment-233 Danielle: I figured it best that I be straight-forward in the matter. There are enough people with ED in their pasts out there that I figured at least a few readers might be able to relate. Plus, secrets just make things complicated. Thanks for your support!<br/>Anonymous: Yes, unfortunately anorexia will always impact any decision I make regarding my health. I have to be careful not to fall into that same trap again.<br/>loveofoats: Glad to know you'll be sticking around! <br/>S&D: Thanks! I'll keep on kickin a$$ if you keep reading...<br/>Anonymous: I am glad to hear of another fully-recovered ED patient who is vegan. It gives me hope for the future! Danielle: I figured it best that I be straight-forward in the matter. There are enough people with ED in their pasts out there that I figured at least a few readers might be able to relate. Plus, secrets just make things complicated. Thanks for your support!
Anonymous: Yes, unfortunately anorexia will always impact any decision I make regarding my health. I have to be careful not to fall into that same trap again.
loveofoats: Glad to know you’ll be sticking around!
S&D: Thanks! I’ll keep on kickin a$$ if you keep reading…
Anonymous: I am glad to hear of another fully-recovered ED patient who is vegan. It gives me hope for the future!

]]> By: Anonymous http://TheBroccoliHut.com/quick-update/comment-page-1/#comment-232 Anonymous Sun, 20 Apr 2008 20:51:00 +0000 http://broccolihut.wordpress.com/2008/04/19/quick-update/#comment-232 Of course, you have to make your own choices. I just want to chime in as a formerly-anorexic vegan whose switch to veganism was the BEST thing I ever did for my body and my recovery process. If eating better/healthfully is the goal, why eat something that doesn't sit right with you? It is easy to be a healthy vegan.<br/><br/>Of course, you need to listen to your body, and you definitely need to get healthy to the point where you're not experiencing amenorrhea. I think you can have it both ways, though. Several nutritionists that I've worked with have backed me up; you should talk to yours. Of course, you have to make your own choices. I just want to chime in as a formerly-anorexic vegan whose switch to veganism was the BEST thing I ever did for my body and my recovery process. If eating better/healthfully is the goal, why eat something that doesn’t sit right with you? It is easy to be a healthy vegan.

Of course, you need to listen to your body, and you definitely need to get healthy to the point where you’re not experiencing amenorrhea. I think you can have it both ways, though. Several nutritionists that I’ve worked with have backed me up; you should talk to yours.

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