Just some issues / wanting to expand on things..

[Ayustar]

I don't know if this is the right place for this but I will give it a shot anyhow.

Lately, the last three days, I have been very depressed. I am on TOM. When I am sometimes I feel alright, there isn't much physical pain, my mental condition is pretty good. This time around there is pain, and mental anguish. Well, maybe anguish is too strong of a word to use in this case? Who knows. Anyways. I have felt extremely sad for the past little while. Listless, sad, and craving chocolate, but I can over come the last part haha.

I keep pushing my boyfriend away, I am cold with him, I don't mean to be. I just feel so sad and icky and I don't want him to touch me. Sometimes I feel like I am not good enough for him. Like not pretty enough or whatever, maybe that is just my thinking at times like this. I wanted to be alone all of last night. I didn't want to talk very much to anyone. I don't usually get this depressed.

Weird thing was it was mood swings. I would be depressed, then cynical, then I could laugh, then I would feel like crying.

Either way, the point I am trying to make here is: Do alot of other women get this way on TOM or? What do you guys do to handle it? Has it changed since you have started this WOE? Has TOM gotten better or worse *physically or mentally?*

I don't personally know anyone who is on this diet that I can actually talk to about TOM and low carb and the way they feel.

Just curious about it.

Thank you.

[bigted]

A couple of days before my TOM comes my mood hits the dumpster. I'm a pretty event tempered person and you have really got to do something pretty incredible to get me ticked, so when the slightest thing sets me off (usually to do with my disability and not being able to get my body to do something) - I know what's coming. I would say it's likely to be hormones but if it really sticks around you might want to have it looked into. I get depressed with my disability (and compounded by hormones) and every once and a while I think I might need help but it passes. Since I already take a bucket full of meds as it is, I am not eager to add another to the daily regime.

To get over it I go out with friends and or do something I enjoy (I try and avoid food but often I stray to the carbby garbage I am trying to strike off my list of food choices.) At the very least I try and not let my body (and head) dictate my wellbeing. If I did, I would likely be in a wheel chair collecting disability rather than working full time and walking (albeit with a cane). I hope it passes soon for you and things go back to normal.

[Ayustar]

Thank you so much.

It is just hit me hard this time. I don't know why. I think it centers around my boyfriend. Which is odd. We live together and I love him to death. He doesn't stress me out, nothing like that. It is very odd that I have been feeling so cold to him. To me, he seems the type to have high expectations, you know? His standards are high and I feel that I lack what he wants, physcially. I brought that up to him and he was upset about it. It's all on comparison basis. I hate it. It's just this depression talking I think. Because normally, I feel alright.

But I do try the same things, go out with friends (like you wrote) and have dinners and things. But sometimes I feel like I don't fit in. I pull myself away and just sit and watch them on the side lines. I hate that feeling too. I get to watch other's enjoy living while I feel miserable.
I hope this feeling goes away soon.