Re: the weight debate building. (this is about eating issues, not medical conditions)

[stoney321]

As someone who was groomed by her mother to have a specific body type, and ridiculed publicly when I didn't have that, as someone who was told by her father that it looked like I had a tire in my waist band, as someone that was an exercise bulimic in her late teens and was grey-faced and wan from being unhealthy, as someone who watched her best

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Re: Thanks. I always appreciate what you have to say.

[rikibeth]

Definitely get your daughter in for a checkup! Early treatment makes a big difference -- my mom was not treated until her early twenties, but a friend of hers who also had it had a wedge resection at 18, and never had trouble conceiving. I was treated without surgery -- Provera and the Pill through my teens to regulate my cycle and diminish the cysts.

My mom spotted it in me when my menstrual cycles were very wacky at 14 -- skip a month, then spot for two weeks straight. She recognized the pattern.

And they spotted the IR early because my dad's hypoglycemic, and I was having the behavioral issues.

My daughter's 13. I spotted the same blood sugar reactiveness when she was TWO, and have been teaching her lower-carb principles since then. And it looks like she dodged a BULLET -- she's had her cycles for two years now, and has been PENDULUM STEADY, and with no weight or hirsutism issues.

There's definitely a family history of type II diabetes for me too, and I'd consider metformin if I weren't having any luck controlling the insulin resistance through my eating habits, but since I'm doing ok so far, I'm holding off for now.