Hello from Australia!!
Hi! This is my first post here, so I guess I'll introduce myself.
My name is Elizabeth, I'm turning 17 in May and I started Schwarzbein in January.
I have had trouble with my weight all my life. Though not overweight, my friends were always thinner than me, making me feel weird. Also when in primary school I was bulied badly over my weight even though I wasn't that big. So in early highschool I started skipping breakfast, tried Atkins and weght watchers. Then when I was 14 I starved myself outright for 2 months, and wrecked my metabolism. My periods became irregular, I gained back the weight, and felt worse. I started getting more and more fatigued. Tried weight watchers again, and starvation. Things got worse.
Then in February of 2005 I started weight watchers intensley. I was RELIGIOUS about it, counting every gram of food I ate. I though I was doing the healthy thing by eating oats, no-fat artificially sweetened yogurt, and fruit for breakfast. My periods stopped completely. I lost weight slower than my post-menopausal mother, who often "cheated' on butter and healthy oils. Finally I stopped losing altogether and started taking thyroid medicine (though my blood levels never fell below low-normal) as my health had majorly decreased, to the extent that I couldn't cope with school and I had to start homeschooling. I developed CFS, or chronic fatigue syndrome.
Then, while in America visiting family, my aunty gave the SP book to my Mom, and she made me look at it. At the time I read it I was thin, for me (size 4 american pants, about 120 something pounds) , bright yellow from too many carrots, and eating apples all day to try and satisfy hunger which would never go away. I started reading the book and OVERNIGHT my entire philosophy on food changed.
Now I'm eating balanced meals and am dealing with the fact that I can't fit into barely any of my pants any more. I have burned out adrenals, but am insulin sensitive. I don't know how much weight I've gained exactly, but it's not so much that I'm overweight, more than I would like... anyway I'm fine with it most of the time, my body is healing. I can feel it, and my period came back for the first time in over a year, only three weeks after I started the program!! I jumped for joy. I'm looking forward to a healthy future, thank GOD I was given this book when I was, who knows how much longer I would have spent starving myself to death.
Thanks for listening, I'm so glad there is a place people doing Schwarzbein can talk!! See you around!!
Elizabeth
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