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2nd Trimester
Jessimurph
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Anyone want to fess up to having an ED?
Jessimurph
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I was bulimic for the last 2 years of high school and 1st year of college. That was a horrible horrible time and sadly I'd give anything to be that skinny again.
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Re: Anyone want to fess up to having an ED?
Over eater here...was up to 320 pounds at my heaviest and scared to death what might happen during and after pregnancy!
what brought this up?
Senior year of HS (1999) I started taking dexotrim. The summer after graduation I added bulimia to the list and continued dexotrim. Stayed that way until the month before my wedding (2006) when DH threatened to call it off. I got PG with DS right away after the wedding and haven't relasped since.
I thought you meant Erectile Dysfunction?!?
I was really anorexic all through high school until my senior year. I hope that I'm NEVER that skinny again. I was dating an a-hole who always told me I was fat and I believed him, got down to about 95 pounds, it was disgusting. I thought I was 100% over it, and then when I couldn't get pregnant, I basically stopped eating again because I wanted to punish my body(which didn't help with getting pregnant). Luckily, I recognized it for what it was, and DH helped me get through it.
My RE told me to put on 10-15 pounds and I would probably get pregnant...it worked! Healthy weight for me is about 135 when non pregnant.
I don't know if it was a full-blown ED, but after DS I was at my heaviest and depressed about it. I ended up going on a diet, and got carried away with it. I lost the 45 lbs I had gained while PG with him, and then another 30. I was 105 lbs, and not healthy. My family gave me hell about it. I ended up getting PG with DD, and that solved that.
Looking at pictures, I realize how bad I looked, amnd won't ever do that again.
Me too. My highest weigh was almost 400.
I dealt with anorexia and then later bulimia for over 3 years, and although I do sometimes wish I skinnier, I don't think a woman should be that skinny. It was hearing from the doctor that I would have trouble ttc that ultimately snapped me out of it.
Putting on weight is still an issue-- DH yelled at me last night for buying diet Hansen's because they have splenda. He was like, "You are pregnant. You will get fat! This is not the time to diet."
And he was absolutely right
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Where the heck did the weight go?!?
Bulimic in 6-8 grades; bulimic & anorexic 9-10 grades. Miraculously (being sarcastic), I moved out of my abusive household and I was able to let my ED go.
*Oops! Meant to say anorexic in 6-8 grades.
I started running in college to get in shape and weight kept coming off. Everyone told me I looked great, so I kept running and kept cutting more calories out of my diet. Having people tell you that you look great can sort of be an addiction in itself, even if you are starting to look scary skinny. I don't know why people kept saying that they noticed I'd lost more weight, like it was a good thing.
I was on a tight budget and started buying off-brand Slim Fast instead of food. I was running 6 to 8 miles a day and only drinking slim fast (no real food). Needless to say, I was very thin and everyone thought I was healthy. I lost about 75 pounds.
It took meeting DH and having him around all the time before my habits changed (I didn't want him to see the total lack of food in my diet). I still run, but I eat 3000+ healthy calories a day to maintain a normal weight.