Re: Is it worth it?
From: Renee (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Thu, 06 Sep 2001 22:15:05 -0700
I felt like that at first. However, I feel so much better now eating the way
I do. The other day I was asking questions for people to answer at a
Toastmasters meeting (Table Topics). One question I asked was: "If you could
go back and re-live any one year of your life, which one would it be?" I
realized that I don't want to go to the past. I'm happier now than I ever
have been. I can attribute a lot of that to the diet (the rest is personal,
professional, etc.).
Interestingly, my cholesterol and triglicerides are lower now, on a super
low-carb diet, than when I was doing a low-fat diet years ago (I'm 30 now).
My triglicerides are 99 (the low end of the range), my good cholesterol is hi,
my bad is low, my ratio is excellent. My mother has high cholesterol and is
on meds for it. But, despite the high meat/egg/cream diet I'm on, my cardiac
risk panel is very good. And, I've gotten used to the diet, and found ways to
get around my restrictions to still have dessert, and things like that.
I do believe it will pay off in the long run, and it is paying off now.
Renee
anonymous@obgyn.net wrote:
>
> I am 22 years old and I know I have PCOS. I've known it for at least 5
> years, when some blood tests came back showing abnormally high
> testosterone levels and an ultrasound showed (guess what) a cyst. My
> previous doctors have ignored my statements that I have PCOS, even
> though I am easily more intelligent than they are and I have done the
> research. One put me on the pill, which gave me my period, but failed
> to reduce my weight or hair growth.
>
> I received my cholesterol today, from a nurse who couldn't interpret my
> hormone labs. 239. At 22 years old I have a cholesterol level higher
> than my 60 year old father. I was left waiting for a doctor who never
> called with that number, 239, dancing in my head.
>
> And I wonder, is it really worth removing all traces of enjoyment from
> my eating in order to eke out a few more years of life? I eat when I am
> hungry and usually not when I'm angry or upset. I like all sorts of
> food. And suddenly I'm going to stop eating pasta, when I'm a friggin'
> Italian living with a fairly thin Italian mother? And stop eating meat
> because it'll increase my LDL levels? And not eat sugar or sugar-related
> products because they'll get turned into fat? And not eat fruit for the
> same reason?
>
> Tell me, exactly, why I should do all this. I don't want another 50
> years sitting around and eating carrots and lettuce and soy every day
> and pretending that I don't miss food that tastes like something. I
> don't plan on having children anymore. At 174 lbs and 5'4" I am
> unhealthily overweight, but I have come to terms with that.
>
> I now face increased risks of heart disease, uterine cancer, colon
> cancer...and even if I manage my symptoms, they're still there.
>
> What, exactly, am I denying myself for?
>
> MG
>
--
Renee Cordrey, MSPT, MPH, CWS
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Don't follow in the footsteps of the masters. Seek what they sought.
--Zen saying
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