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Re: PCOS and Eating Disorders

From: Amy (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Thu, 19 Apr 2001 09:47:18 -0400

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I know that is true ... it takes all I have got to not be another Karen Carpenter .... I have to tell myself every morning that I wake up that I will eat at least 1 full meal ....

I know that before .. I had the complete opposite ... I would swallow food whole and not even taste it to try to fill a void in my heart ...

I ride both sides of that fence .. and it is VERY difficult.

anonymous@obgyn.net wrote:

> Dr. Thatcher in "PCOS: The Hidden Epidemic" says that PCOS sufferers have a
> higher incidence of eating disorders. It's not clear which comes first the
> chicken or the egg... BUT one theory is: with PCOS weight is so much
> harder to control, people trying to control their weight have to take
> radical measures to achieve any success and cross over into eating
> disorders. Also contributing to the binge/purge problem is the carb
> binging that IR triggers.
>

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