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How Over Exercise Led to Hypothalamic Amenorrhea (Episode #83)

November 1, 2018 By beautyinchrist Leave a Comment

Disclaimer: Remember that this podcast is NOT intended to diagnose, treat, or be a substitute for medical advice. I am NOT a healthcare professional. Please consult your doctor or health care practitioners before making any changes to your way of eating, exercising, etc.

Hypothalamic amenorrhea. What is the definition of this condition? It’s a term that I’ve learned a bit about especially after struggling with it for 10+ years.

This is the definition of that I picked up from off of Google,

‘Hypothalamic amenorrhea is a condition in which menstruation stops for several months due to a problem involving the hypothalamus. The hypothalamus is in the center of the brain and controls reproduction. It produces gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH).’

I’m not going to go into the science of it, because I’m not a nutritionist, dietitian, doctor, nurse, nurse practitioner, and I want you to go to your health practitioners for practical advice on what you’re supposed to do if you’re wrestling with this.

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Why I LOVE Veggies with Butter and Oil Now (Recovery)

April 23, 2018 By beautyinchrist 2 Comments

I love to eat different kinds of food. I’m not a ‘carnivore’ or vegetarian. I’m not a vegan or gluten free (because I don’t need to be). I’m not someone who just likes donuts or just salads. I love veggies with butter or oil. I love a good bowl of icecream with peanut butter and chocolate sauce or a bowl of yogurt with granola and fruit.

I LOVE veggies. I don’t ever want to give the impression that I don’t, and I also love ways of making veggies fun; I love roasting veggies in TONS of oil, cheese, balsamic vinegar, and spices. Oil and butter used to be two major fear foods for me, but now they make me excited about eating veggies.

I also love a good salad. I’m not of the opinion that you HAVE to have meat to have a good meal, but I love a good burger or yummy roasted chicken.

However, on the daily for lunch or breakfast, I don’t normally have meat unless it’s leftover (it’s just not a personal huge craving of mine.)

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How to Overcome Ice Cream Fears

April 15, 2018 By beautyinchrist 15 Comments

Icecream. It’s a major fear food for those struggling with eating disorders. To a normal person with a normal diet, it might not be a big deal, but when you start to see certain foods as ‘enemies’ and other foods as ‘not enemies’ ice cream becomes one of the enemies.

It was a major fear food for me, and I still struggle at times with people serving me ice cream, especially because I can’t ‘control’ how much I eat. Now, I have it at least once a day, and I love the freedom of being able to have that icecream without worrying about the calories.

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Dealing With Amenorrhea and Stress

April 3, 2018 By beautyinchrist 31 Comments

Note: I originally wrote this post on April 17th, 2015. I have updated you on the journey in this new post since then. I’m now sharing it again a year later from my update in May of 2017. This has been such a journey for me, and I’m still learning the whole way.

I’ve dealt with the effects of restrictive eating for about 7 years now, one of them being amenorrhea. I’m thankful that this year has been the best year of healing that I have experienced in the whole period of recovery. I’ve finally began to realize just how much a woman’s body needs her period. I’m linking to Robyn, because she has much better advice and actual explanations about why it’s so crucial for a woman’s body to have a normal cycle. I’ve struggled with amenorrhea off and on the whole time I’ve been in recovery, but this year I’m having more periods/a normal cycle than I’ve had in a long time.

I’m linking up with Amanda today to think out loud about this topic!

I’ve struggled with amenorrhea off and on for about 5 years, and I’m not the typical super underweight anorexic girl. I was never severely underweight, but my body did not like the low weight that I was at, and it let me know when I lost my period for about 2 or 3 years without a single period till I was about 17 or 18. After I gained about 15-20 pounds, it came off and on, but I realized that it was still being affected.

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