Trudy, I know you're right, exercise will help. The irony is, depression makes me barely able to get out of bed, much less put on sneakers and go to the gym. It's kind of a vicious circle.

Gym? Sneakers? Oh please. Fuck that. Baby steps. Bundle up and get some sun and a walk a few times a day and let things start rolling that way. I'm not talking anything as ambitious and fail-prone as an excercise routine right now. Just move your body slightly.

Cabbage leaves thought: at the very least that's going to feel pretty good in a convenient breast-shaped form. And cabbage really is remarkable stuff.

Oh, fat people all lie about what we eat. Didn't you know that? Surely we gorge ourselves on bonbons continually. At one point my Mom was in the hospital for an infection and on IV antibiotics. Eating basically what she had been eating at home and moving around not at all she dropped ten pounds in two weeks. It was all, "hmmm... maybe something is going on here!" Shocker.

A friend of mine, over the course of several years, went on high-blood pressure medication, developed insomnia, and then some third thing I can't remember (drat). When she went to the pharmacy to pick up those three scrips and her birth control pills the pharmacist said, "Go off the pill". Eventually, she was off all four of them and dropped a bunch of weight. She had even asked her doctor about the pill possibility and got an answer along the lines of "you've been on this pill for years, anything it would have done to you would have happened long ago."

That's only tangentally related to the discussions at hand... its mostly "stuff happens" and "find a good pharmacist and ask them shit. they KNOW things. it's spooky."

She had even asked her doctor about the pill possibility and got an answer along the lines of "you've been on this pill for years, anything it would have done to you would have happened long ago."

Yeah, no. Bodies can develop new! exciting! reactions! to anything that they used to happily consume with no repercussions. That's a stupid response.

signed, cannot ingest large amounts of soy anymore, when I used to be able to subsist on edamame and chicken breasts.

Particularly, one would think to freakin' hormones which fluctuate all the damn time even without some extras thrown in.

I feel like many people are oddly cavalier about the pill. They'll stay on it for twenty years without giving it a thought. You're messing with a complex system, you should be doing it for a really good reason. Maybe stop now and again to see what's shakin? Switch to a diaphram? Skip it when you're not dating anyone? Maybe, if you're taking it because your periods were screwy when you were 19 or 22 they wouldn't be anymore?

Off the top of my head I can think of six people who felt peppy and dropped weight once they had their tubes tied and went of the BC they'd been on since they were 17.

And soy, of course, involves Estrogen.

And soy, of course, involves Estrogen.

Yes, it does. (I also can't really eat cheese anymore, which BREAKS MY MOTHERFUCKING HEART.) Ahem.

Lady, what are you doing up so late? Show?

Insomnia!

Actually, I'm getting tired now. Woo hoo!

You just get home from work?

And cheese loss is tragic.

But maybe eat a little? Just today my sister and I were talking about how her dairy sensitivity is worse if she eats NO dairy and then eats some as opposed to always eating a little. I know the first orange or pineaple of a season can cause me to react but the reaction fades after a week or so.

The body is weird.

Yay tired!

And yup, just home from work. Catching up, doing some silly designing (comp CDs don't really need a designed insert, but a) it's MCR and b) why the fuck not?), drinking some wine.

I do eat a little cheese every once in a while (the joys of Staff Meal), but I have to stick with the hard cheeses.

And I just downloaded a Misfits-style font for this insert. I have Officially Overthunk It.

Hey, its MCR. Might as well revel in fonts a little. Gee Way would.

Somewhere there is a good doctor who will believe you have a real problem and help you to sort it out. Keep asking and pushing for an answer.

That's the thing - the doc that said "if that's all you are eating, you should be losing weight" then walked away, was one of the good ones. Or at least, I had made the mistake of thinking she was. I've got broken trust and an unwillingness to spend hundreds of dollars seeing doctors that I have no reason to think will be on my side.