Brief Bio

Hi All, I'm new to this site, I have posted on PC but not specifically on E.D.'s. If I had to put everything in a nutshell, I would say that I have been sufferring with an ED for the past 12 years, I am still young and this developed at very early stages of my teen years. Naturally over the years, depending on my life circumstances, my weight has fluctuated.

I managed to get my weight under control for a few years and thought I was indispensable, I could eat what I liked, drink what I wanted and I managed the same weight for a while, this made me very happy, as I am sure you can all imagine, a life with no worrying or constant obsession about what I am eating e.t.c. I was blissfully happy until a year ago when I noticed that my pants weren't quite fitting as loosely as they previously did, gradually as the year has flown, my weight has escalated drastically

My obsession about food, exercise has come back with avengance and I am completely stressed out about going back down that same road...I do not want to go back there. I have been eating a fraction of what I normally eat and exercising alot more and the weight is still just piling on. Naturally this has caused me to become very depressed and angered at myself that I allowed my body to gain all this weight.

Over the past several weeks, I have seen several doctors in the hope that one of them would find out if there was 'medically' something wrong with me or is it all just in my HEAD! After this exhausting process, I finally found out this week that my insulin levels are too high and that my body is unable to shed the weight and apparently the spike in my insulin levels are a result of my weight gain, very confused! The doctors simply say, diet and exercise and you will get results, but those are not the answers I wanted to hear, because I am dieting and I am eating right. This constant obsession has sent me spiralling straight back down E.D. Avenue, I now think of starving, or binging, all these extreme measures, to lose all this weight, but I know my decision to join PC will helpfully give me the support and encouragement not to put myself / body through that!

Hello and welcome. I'm sure that a healthy diet along with regular exercise can help you lose all the weight you need to lose. Don't let the ED come back. You know you don't want it to. It's not worth it. There are some great exercise methods that get rid of fat in a short period of time. Try them out. (e.g. the Tabata method. you can google the term and pm me if you need more info.) Take care

Hi, I've been reading up on insulin levels as well with regards to losing weight and apparently people with high levels can lose weight healthily if they follow a certain way of eating. Not a restrictive diet but just a certain way of limiting certain carbs etc. Could you maybe talk to a dietitian about it? The books I've read on it have suggested a diet like the Low G.I. Diet really works for insulin levels. There is also one called The PCOS Diet book which is a syndrome that has high insulin levels as a symptom. I haven't tried any of these yet but it could be worth a shot.